I’ve never understood the amount of shit the owners get here. The results, even before this year, are what they are, and those criticizing individual decisions forget that they only know part of the story.
I’m a lawyer and have been involved in cases that have gotten media attention at certain times during my 30 plus year career. What I’m struck every time by is how little of the actual story the media ever gets right. Every article is partially right but missing facts or points of emphasis that change the whole calculus.
I will give one example as it pertains to the Sox and I hope we don’t bog down in it. There’s a narrative that’s taken as gospel that Lester left because he was lowballed and offended by same. That might be true. But there are so many facts about what actually happened — the course of negotiations primarily — that are not known. And it also presumes that Lester was not represented by experienced people who would have told him that opening low ball offers happen every day and are not worth getting offended over, which is the real world. The point is that there’s so much more to every story that we don’t know and developing hard like views based on only pieces of information seems silly to me.
I get it, they inflicted Bobby V on us and one can list other supposed mistakes and transgressions.
But for me, it comes down to performance. And I do love Fenway and am glad they have kept it and improved it.
In the great One Day at Fenway, which was written after the Grady Boner game, the author observed at the end that this ownership group was different and would bring a title to Boston. And perhaps multiple titles. Prescient. And based on up close observation of this group (and of course Larry and Theo).
Thanks, owners.
