FORT MYERS, Fla. — Three years, three managers.
The Red Sox went from Terry Francona, who authored the Great September Collapse of 2011 after admittedly losing control of the team, to Bobby Valentine, who they believed would not allow the inmates to run the asylum in 2012.
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Has Nick Cafardo developed an attitude, or what? I thought his job was to report on baseball, not act as an unhappy surrogate parent who thinks the kids are spoiled and that everyone needs to hear about it. Cafardo lobbied for weeks to bring in Bobby Valentine, who, like Kevin Kennedy, never saw a camera he didn't like, a microphone that wasn't awaiting his words of wisdom, or lost the perception that it was about him and not the players. Why doesn't the Globe simply give Cafardo a paddle, send him into the spring training locker room, and see if he's tough enough to administer the paddling he seems to feel all the players deserve. That would be amusing. It's getting tiring to read this overweight, middle-aged wannabe trash the players day after day. All professional athletes today are spoiled and grossly overpaid at the major league level — just as sportswriters are overpaid to act as gossip columnists and moralists.
Nick, you can stop recycling this column. We get it! You didn't like Francona and thought that he got too much credit. You really liked Bobby V and feel that he was terribly wronged and should still be the manager. You are skeptical on Farrell and feel that he failed in Toronto and should never have gotten this position.
Honestly, you have putting out this message since October.
Move on! Bobby V is not coming through that door.
I don’t know baseball, but I do know management. There can only be one person in charge. Top management (aka owners) need to keep there fingers off the day to day deaingswith the team. Otherwise, the members of the team can choose to ignore the field manager and play to the owners. I believe this was Francona’s downfall. Some members of the team ignored Tito’s directions. Afterall, they worked for the owners. Bad sign.
"Inmates"--prison? the asylum? some other place where dangerous or disturbed people are kept against their will?--seems a harsh, condescending, and demeaning term for professional baseball players. It's not even remotely accurate. Why not give it up and treat them as men?