Rob Bradford of WEEI interviewed Josh Becket and rather than attempting to make amends for a disastorous season he just slipped further and further into becoming the real life Kenny Powers. In 2014, after his contract with the Sox is up, I can see Beckett pitching in Nicaragua complaining about people not speaking "American."
Toucher and Rich on The Sports Hub nailed it. Josh Beckett is Kenny Powers.
The full article can be found here, but here a few highlights:
"The snitching [expletive], that's [expletive]. It's not good."
"I loved Terry Francona. At the end it got difficult for me sometimes with Tito, with him as the manager. But he didn't deserve to leave like that."
"I'm not going to apologize for being distracted. It's not going to happen."
And, perhaps the most important quote to consider …
"I wouldn't trade what I have now for three World Series rings. I wouldn't do it."
"Baseball isn't my No. 1 priority anymore," he said at that time. "Everybody goes through that change. Some people might go through that change before that even happens, but I definitely find myself thinking about [Holly and the baby] whereas a lot of times I used to be thinking about how I was going to get this guy out, or what I needed to do that day. They're my central focus.
"Maybe a couple of months into the pregnancy, it started to become real," he continued. "When you first find out you're pregnant, there are a lot of different emotions, but it's not quite real yet. But then you get a couple of months in and you go to the doctor's appointment once a month, check in on the baby, do that first ultrasound, and it becomes real then. You realize that person is going to completely depend on me and it literally wouldn't live without us. It's something I'm really looking forward to. Since the time I've wanted it, I've wanted it bad."
I mean, he has a point, he is the first Major League Baseball player who's wife has had a baby during his playing career.
"[Expletive] happens," Beckett said. "Whether you controlled it, or you didn't control it, or you could have controlled it better. [Expletive] happens. We're human beings playing a human being sport.
F*ckin'-A, brother. Aren't we all just human beings playing the human being game of life? I don't come to your office and tell you you're fat from drinking beer and eating fried chicken, do I?
In the words of Kenny Powers a.k.a. Josh Becket: "Just like in life, all of my successes depend on me. I'm the man who has the ball, I'm the man who can throw it faster than f*ck."
This season should be fun.
-Big Ran
