New manager John Farrell is in place. David Ortiz has a freshly minted two-year guarantee. The makeover of the Red Sox, with second-year general manager Ben Cherington in charge, continues its inning-by-inning offseason crawl as baseball’s GM meetings begin this week in Palm Springs.
All of 378 days on the job and barely a month removed from the franchise’s worst season in a half-century, the 38-year-old Cherington maintains the confidence of his bosses on Yawkey Way. Team president and CEO Larry Lucchino said last week, while acknowledging the disappointment and “broken parts’’ of the 2012 season, that Cherington remains the right fit for the job.
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Why does the Boston media keep writing the same story with the same angle, same theme, same talking points??
This is now Ben's team.
Really?? Huh, I thought last year was Ben's team when the moves he made and didn't make were hardly impressive.
It's pretty obvious Cherington is now receiving the "Theo treatment" from the Boston media, i.e.
Never to be held accountable because he's a local yocal and works for those evil carpetbaggers. (yawning)
Stick to hockey Kevie.
Couldn't agree more. What did Cherington take a mulligan on his first year? The same mulligan he didn't offer Valentine, considering how he (Cherington) ensured BV's failure by his idotic roster moves and coaching mandates? I'd prefer, on this Election Day, "change" that we can all believe in, rather than new clothes for the Emperor.
Other than "The Trade", which very well may have been orchestrated by King Larry, I wasn't impressed by Cherington. Seemed like he was good at getting his pocket picked on trades. Doesn't seem to get how important a player's makeup is. Beyond that, for style points, I can't get past how he sounds. It's creepy how much he sounds like Theo - same monotone delivery, cadence and vocabulary. Must make Larry happy to have a docile Theo facsimile. We know how Theo's ability to work independently drove Larry crazy.
Not a great first year but on the upside his mistakes were a bargain compared to most of Theo's overpriced/overrated $500 million chess moves. I bet we're still paying for at least one Theo shortstop.