While I understand this concept, and I hear a lot of people using this line of attack on Bobby V, I do think it is off-base. The fact is that none of us work in professions where our boss is expected to talk about us to the media on a daily basis. Obviously we would all be shocked if we read something said by our boss in the newspaper. These guys read stuff everyday that their boss says about them and listen to talk radio hosts bashing them on a regular basis. It's par for the course. Now whether or not Bobby should have said it can definitely be questioned, but I don't think we can compare it to any of us having the same type of treatment. Athletes are different.
I agree with this. If he really was criticizing Youk, there are far better ways to handle it. I still question whether that was his ultimate goal, just because I can't believe he'd be that stupid. Regardless, the whole episode is not a good sign, and to get he discussion back to Felger and Mazz, I thought their defense of him was over the top. Just them trying to take the contrarian viewpoint as always.
Yet the strange, and most disturbing development of this young season is that the media seems to be all over Valentine. I have thought one of the biggest reasons ownership brought Valentine in is that they figured the media would love him, his quotes, and brand the Sox in a positive light. The opposite seems to be true and if this team were to stumble to .500 or worse by the all star break I could absolutely see them shit canning him.
Well, that's more than Mazz does. I'm listening and he's not too bad. I can understand why they have Wiggin's on during the football season, even if I'm not a fan. But being the radio broadcast station for the bruins you would think F&M could get an actual hockey guy on to discuss the bruins.
It's the luck of the draw sometimes, but isn't Neely on Tuesdays? I think the Sports Hub generally has many guests that can talk hockey knowledgeably...Chiarelli's on the T&R show, I thought Haggs made the rounds on various Hub programs, Goucher and Beers are on frequently, etc. I'd actually rather not hear Edwards talk about anything.
He was shilling so bad for the Bruins last night that, for the first time in forever, I tried to change to to NBCS just so I didn't have to listen to his homerisms.
Which media? Cafardo is blowing the guy in the paper every day. Mazz too. It's been embarrassing. Who's killing this guy?
I follow numerous Red Sox writers on Twitter (Ian Browne, Brian MacPherson, McAdam, and others) and all of them have already made more snarky comments on Twitter about Bobby V this season than they did about Francona all of last year.
Those tweets are all fair points. Valentine's got no track record of success in Boston and needs to earn any slack which he might be given. The Ross comments are funny because given Valentine's comments about Youkilis they actually make a pretty decent point.
Not indefinitely. They could probably only have one shitty year and still make money. After that the fans will stay home in droves if the team isn't any better. The park prices are too high for anything but a contending team year after year.
It's the Haunted Mansion, with less comfortable seats and a longer line.
I wouldn't underestimate the power of the pink hats. I think they have at least 2 subpar seasons before that sect abandons ship. It's simple math, however long of a stretch of success it took for the full on pink hat invasion, it'll take an equally long period of sucking for them to go away.
Okay, so these are examples of how they are an attraction (examples that could be used for any franchise in sports, but we'll ignore that for now). None of these are examples of how they are "not a team", which they clearly are. Totally spot on.
You and I define "shitty year" in a completely different way that the average fan, though. I have scaled back from 50-75 games a season (2001-2004) to between 3 and 5 games a season (2005-2010) down to 0 games (2011 & 2012). And that has very little to do with the quality of the team and much more to do with life circumstances (no longer in Boston everyday, life changes, financial factors, etc.) But if I won the lottery tomorrow...I wouldn't be buying Sox season tickets (like I would have in the past). And that IS because of the team and ownership.
Jesus dear Lord. It's like you inserted yourself into my head and saw the world through my eyes. Thank you for acknowledging this. Its worse here in Connecticut. Only it's depending on where you are in the state (northern half or southern half) where you'll find pics of chicks claiming to be "die hard" Sox or Yankees fans.
The answer depends on who you ask. For most people on here who I would believe are more into the sport and 'purity of the game' (basically, that enjoy the traditional aspects of the game) they respond negatively to the course ownership has taken. Like above, back in early 2000s I would attend 30ish games a season, yet now am lucky to attend a single game a season due to life and being priced out of attending that number of games.
I think they'll bash the wrong people.
You got your wish brother. Felger, Mazz and Bertrand going to town on this team. Love it!
I was like what the hell are you talking about? Then it came through just now. That's great.
That guy is TSH's version of Frank from Gloucester. He never dissappoints
Brian Holtsby is an awesome one as well
I particularly enjoyed when he wondered if Applebom would be back. 2 weeks after the closer signed with the phillies
