Saturday, May 18, 2013
Bradford: Could this be the smartest Red Sox team since ‘07?
(www.weei.com)
Using the Bradford–Binet Intelligence Test…uhh, no.
Read More...The Gomes persona might offer the best evidence of an ‘07 dynamic within these Red Sox.
There might be some frustration for fans who choose to define success and failure by pure numbers with the outfielder hitting .183 with a .643 OPS. Intangibles aside, it certainly would behoove the Red Sox to get Gomes’ digits up a bit. But something as simple of managing to hit a ball in the air when his team needed it the most, as was the case in 10th ...
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1. Yastrzemski in left. posted on November 12, 2012 at 01:22 AM # hit 0 | hit 0????? WHAT??
after Papi called him a lying sack of shit, no FURTHER comment was necessary.
What has gotten into Gammons?
He's a witch!
... in a court of law ... a criminal court where the burden of proof is "beyond a reasonable doubt" ... in front of a jury of my peers ... and subject to appeal to a higher court.
Senility and/or stroke damage.
EDIT: He's only 67. Wow.
The gist of the article is that Valentine is still interested in baseball, works hard, and knows a lot, and if he and others can put 2012 in the past MLB has a lot to gain from him. All of that is probably true.
The problem I have is that what happened in 2012 is part of the package you get with Valentine. Like a teenager, he is sensitive to criticism and prone to lying in order to deflect it; he has the potential to be a PR nightmare. The role they would need him to be in would have to minimize the damage he can inflict, and I imagine there are few such roles for him in MLB. Putting 2012 in the past means overlooking some of Valentine's fundamental negatives, and that's not advisable.
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