I like him too. I couldn't stand him as a player when he was a rival of UConn. May be I'm getting soft in my old age.I like Al hope he lands on his feet. BC has been awful since..
It wasn't enough for BC to fire him, they had to try destroy him.
No reason for it other than that's how that place works.
They've hired a pair of tomato cans since Skinner left - nobody but nobody wanted to take that gig last year.
Is this a part of Boston culture or something? The whole getting rid of someone then saying bad stuff about them on their way out, I mean? Weren't the Sox (or at least the Boston media) also accused of doing this sort of thing to former players and staff?
Yeah, that's been the SOP of the Sox' front office and local media for quite some time. I remember it got really ugly when the Sox fired Francona and "anonymous sources from inside the organization" called the guy a pill popper. Nomar, Clemens, Manny, Pedro, Derek Lowe, Mike Lowell, etc., all got similar treatment.Is this a part of Boston culture or something? The whole getting rid of someone then saying bad stuff about them on their way out, I mean? Weren't the Sox (or at least the Boston media) also accused of doing this sort of thing to former players and staff?
Yeah, that's been the SOP of the Sox' front office and local media for quite some time. I remember it got really ugly when the Sox fired Francona and "anonymous sources from inside the organization" called the guy a pill popper. Nomar, Clemens, Manny, Pedro, Derek Lowe, Mike Lowell, etc., all got similar treatment.
I don't remember anything bad at all about Pedro and Nomar and Lowell, and I'm fairly confident they didn't knock Nomar and Pedro, but Clemens and Manny deserved everything they got, obviously, and you have to admit Derek Lowe was a prime flake, even though the Sox made a big mistake getting rid of him.
Nomar and Manny became clubhouse poison before they left. I suspect that contributed to it, but I agree it isn't the classiest thing in world to do. (As an aside, I blame Mia Hamm for Nomar's decline and attitude change.)Agree on Pedro and Lowell but Nomar was Fung Wah'd hard and often when he departed. Clemens did deserve it mostly but why did Manny? You all loved him when he was doing whacky crap his whole Sox career while winning and went along with it happily. Then when he leaves and he's a known user he's garbage? Sorry pretty much only in Boston upstater.
Nomar and Manny became clubhouse poison before they left. I suspect that contributed to it, but I agree it isn't the classiest thing in world to do. (As an aside, I blame Mia Hamm for Nomar's decline and attitude change.)
Agree on Pedro and Lowell but Nomar was Fung Wah'd hard and often when he departed. Clemens did deserve it mostly but why did Manny? You all loved him when he was doing whacky crap his whole Sox career while winning and went along with it happily. Then when he leaves and he's a known user he's garbage? Sorry pretty much only in Boston upstater.