Didn't realize this guy is such a p r i ck. Read this story and and a couple others today. Buddy of mine who works at ESPN says he knows a beat reporter for the Tigers who says Price is the most arrogant and self-entitled/absorbed athlete he's met in 40+ years of covering sports.
He can't handle the post-season either. Is he the most over-paid athlete in baseball?Didn't realize this guy is such a p r i ck. Read this story and and a couple others today. Buddy of mine who works at ESPN says he knows a beat reporter for the Tigers who says Price is the most arrogant and self-entitled/absorbed athlete he's met in 40+ years of covering sports.
Farrell's the one that doesn't fit.Pedey doesn't seem to fit on this team haha.
Farrell's the one that doesn't fit.
Agree with you on that. Lovullo really had the team playing well when Farrell was battling illness. Perhaps the biggest mistake was not retaining both Theo and Tito.He's just not very good. Been apparent for a long time. Biggest mistake the Sox made was letting Tory Lovullo go. That was their manager.
It is a team with several good young players but it is lacking a leader. It has several head cases and no one to keep them under control. Hanley is a problem waiting to happen. Have you noticed that he does not run hard to first on ground balls anymore and there is no one to call him out. Hanley, the Panda and David Price were all bad signings.I like a lot of guys on the Sox, but this team seems like a sensitive lot. You can have a couple of those guys, especially if they're really freakin good, but gimme the Trot Nixon's of the world.
Pedey doesn't seem to fit on this team haha.
Eck has his problems and may at times be too outspoken, but he doesn't deserve to be humiliated. Many on the Sox need a wake-up call...starting with Price. If he's going to remain a cancer, trade him for some value now and move on toward a winning season....with renewed positive morale and professionalism!
Agree with you on that. Lovullo really had the team playing well when Farrell was battling illness. Perhaps the biggest mistake was not retaining both Theo and Tito.
Eck has his problems and may at times be too outspoken, but he doesn't deserve to be humiliated. Many on the Sox need a wake-up call...starting with Price. If he's going to remain a cancer, trade him for some value now and move on toward a winning season....with renewed positive morale and professionalism!
It took Dombrowski coming to get rid the horrible Larry Lucchino. That's a big plus for the guy already.Perhaps the biggest mistake was not retaining both Theo and Tito.
It made me sick reading this story. This is one of my least favorite Sox teams and it has nothing to do with W/L's. Price is such a mental midget and in an all time dumb move puts himself against the Boston media and doesn't back it up on the field. Farrell should have made him apologize on the spot but it doesn't surprise me he and the organization let this grow into what it is today.
Eck hardly criticized him, imagine if Arod reacted the way Price does to the media.
ARod was always great with the media. It's why he's doing well now. His problem was he had no idea how to market himself so that he wouldn't seem like a total . And he acted like a pvssy on the field. And he took a bunch of steroids.
Price is just wound too tight for Boston. I don't even think he's a bad dude per se. He's just so uptight and p rickly. He's also extremely tone deaf.
Ortiz was uptight, but he knew how to handle it for the most part. A lot of Latin players are like this. Hot like fire.
Is there any proof other players outside of Boston didn't like Ortiz? I have to think that would be a hard find and isn't true. Ortiz had his moments but league wide was respected as being the ambassador for not only the latin players but also the city of Boston. The team being a complete drama show at the moment is a direct result of management not having a plan to replace his leadership in the clubhouse.Agree with the ARod minus the "*****" part, not sure where that comes from? I mean you throw Ortiz in the same sentence but one guy played the field and the other didn't. And outside of Boston I promise most thought Ortiz was a /Fake (minus the other Latin players) the way he acted and he took a bunch of steroids too. It can't be the one time he tried to knock the ball out of the glove can it? I hope not.
Agree with the ARod minus the "*****" part, not sure where that comes from? I mean you throw Ortiz in the same sentence but one guy played the field and the other didn't. And outside of Boston I promise most thought Ortiz was a /Fake (minus the other Latin players) the way he acted and he took a bunch of steroids too. It can't be the one time he tried to knock the ball out of the glove can it? I hope not.
Also maybe I'm in the minority but i don't care at all about the PED's seeing how the league turned a blind eye for years and most of the guys caught or suspected using are a result of them trying to keep up.
Had nothing to do with playing the field or talent or anything like that. Both really talented guys. I mean, who cares about that? Last time I checked DH remains a position in baseball. If you are that against guys who play it, fine, campaign to have it removed. I personally think both leagues should have DHs. Makes for a more fun game. The strategy thing is overrated. I could program Microsoft Excel to give me the right move in just about any situation. It's basic.
"That one time" was emblematic of who Arod was in baseball. There's also the "ha mine" incident which was another gem. Classic Arod: "Jeter's been blessed with great talent around him," Rodriguez said. "He's never had to lead. You go into New York, you wanna stop Bernie (Williams) and (Paul) O'Neill. You never say, 'Don't let Derek beat you.' He's never your concern."
Joe Torre: “Alex monopolized all the attention. We never really had anybody who craved the attention. I think when Alex came over he certainly changed just the feel of the club,” Torre said in the book. Torre also wrote that when Rodriguez was at the plate in an important situation he was worried about “how it looks” rather than “concern himself with getting the job done.”
I mean, that's from an ALL TIME manager right there. Not a good look.
Arod was never lauded by his teammates universally as being a great teammate and the heart of an organization. As the one who teammates go to for hitting or life advice. Ortiz was. You don't get that kind of respect if you are a bad guy or have a bad personality. That's a false narrative. Were there things Ortiz did in public that I thought were lame? Of course. Same thing with a guy like Jim Calhoun though. The good FAR outweighed the bad both on and off the field.
Arod couldn't even get respect from Jeter in later years, when they were friends as younger guys. You really think him and Jeter got on well or were friends at that point? If you can't be friends with Jeter, there's something wrong with you.
Funny, you say nobody liked Ortiz, but I know tons of tons of non Sox fans on the West Coast who enjoyed him. People who are into the personalities of the game do. The more boring guys are fine, but you don't really enjoy them as icons unless they're on your team.
And Ortiz was loved by the vast majority of players throughout the game, with the exception of a few small tiffs. Where is all the evidence that players disliked him? Damn near everyone who played with him has great things to say about him. And as I think you were hinting at, Latin players universally laud him as the 'big brother' of the modern Latin scene - pure respect.
Coming from New York, the bias is so strong against Sox stars from that era, that you can't offer an objective opinion. I mean, you guys don't even like Pedro. It works the same for Sox fans in the opposite direction as well mind you. There's not a Sox fan alive who SHOULD dislike Jeter. Dude was class through and through. But plenty do.
Yeah, I always find it laughable that guys get fired up about the steroid era. I mean, it's hypocritical to point to someone else's team and say 'cheaters'. Truth is, probably half your team (whoever that is) was juiced up as well. Just the nature of that era. I mean, Yankees fans love to bark about Ortiz or Manny, but they had more guys implicated in known steroid issues than any other team. They had guys injecting themselves in the toilets, or others come specifically to the clubhouse to inject dudes. But who really cares? It doesn't matter in the end. The results were what they were. And really, because baseball turned a blind eye, the playing field was actually even in a way.