The Boston Red Frauds

Yup, keep smiling, dickheads.

Look at these three jerk offs.  You're looking at three of the major reasons the 2011 Red Sox imploded.  I'm not going to go into all of the details of the Globe story about the epic collapse, so I'll just hit a few of the highlights.

First of all, it is so amazingly clear, that someone from upper management or ownership of the Red Sox fed the Globe all this information, that I am frankly, disgusted.  The Globe is owned by The New York Times, which is a part owner of the Red Sox.  Yeah, that doesn't seem shady at all, does it?  That's like GM owning NBC or Westinghouse owning CBS.  You think those news outlets will ever let management of those companies look bad?  Yeah, me neither.  Seeing as how the article made the players and Terry Francona look awful, so I'm thinking I smell a management rat.

Secondly, the stories about Beckett, Lackey, Lester, and Buchholz crushing beers and fried chicken in the club house during games?  Friggin' priceless.  Beckett is an overpaid diva that isn't consistent enough to be called an ace and is amazingly high maintenance.  Lackey is just awful in every way.  The best thing that ever happened to his wife was him filing for divorce.  Lester is a major disappointment here.  He referred to Francona as a "second father," so I sure hope he feels like crap over what happened.  I just think Buchholz is dumb and would do anything an older player told him to do like they were a cool kid in high school.  Way to stay in shape as a professional athlete and support your teammates.

The part that really chapped my ass was the fact that someone fed The Globe stories about Francona being separated from his wife all season, abusing pain killers, and how that affected his job.  I call total bullshit on that.  Today, Francona acknowledged that he and his wife are separated and were for the entire season.  So, I guess that his separation from his wife affected him for the first 12 games of the season and the last month, but not the four months in the middle of the season when they were the best team in baseball.  Not sure about that logic.

Francona also addressed the pain killer topic.  He said that he was given pain killers due to a recent knee surgery and took them to deal with the pain of having blood being drained from his knee five times during the season.  He also said that one of his kids came across the pills and asked him about them, so Francona went to the team doctor to see if it was still OK for him to be taking them.  The doctor said absolutely.  So, as I have said before, I am a huge Tito Francona supporter, so to keep it simple, here's what I say to whoever was feeding these tories to The Globe:  Eat sh!t and die.

I guess we just wait for the Red Sox smear campsign of Theo Epstein next week.

Tito is my homeboy.

-Big Ran