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| The words Mr. Valentine used sound like, "bucking glass hole". 3 |
I would be surprised, given the calamity of the 2012 Red Sox’s season, if he were the skipper for any Major League Baseball team in 2013. Just because he isn’t winning doesn’t mean he isn’t fun to watch.
PUTTING THE “FUN” BACK IN “DYSFUNCTION”
The Hat Trick has taken multiple subtle jabs and offered a few paragraphs about the dysfunctional operation of the Bobby Valentine run Boston Red Sox. Red Sox Fan has endured more ups and downs than most baseball fans deserve. The Sox went from being in good position to win the American League East last September to collapsing (being nine games up in the Wild Card race) and being out of the playoffs altogether.
Long time, two-time World Series winning manager Terry Francona was fired and longtime General Manager Theo Epstein followed him out of the door. Stories surfaced about starting pitchers (on their off days) eating fried chicken, drinking beer, and playing video games in the clubhouse during games. “Tito was too laid back,” some people thought. Time for a change of pace, right? Enter Bobby Valentine….
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| Cody Ross playing the lead role in Another Bobby Valentine Joint.... 1 |
WHAT DID HE DO THIS TIME?
The Hat Trick discussed the “Bobby V” factor, and his many eccentricities, earlier this year. In 2012, Valentine has made feisty, outspoken Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen look like Ozzie Nelson of “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”. Last night, during the bottom of the eighth inning of the Red Sox’s game against the archrival New York Yankees, Cody Ross (representing the tying run) of the Red Sox was called out by home plate umpire Alfonzo Marquez on an extremely questionable third strike on a payoff pitch with two outs and a runner on second base.
The often low key Ross blew his stack. For a brief moment, a still photographer could have sold an uninformed observer on the suggestion that Ross was about the club Marquez with his bat. ESPN’s audience could clearly see Ross saying, “filth flarn flarn flarn filth,” at the top of his lungs with veins popping out of his neck. Of course, Ross was ejected by Marquez. Then things got interesting.
This was Valentine's sixth ejection of the season. According to several Internet blogs, this is a Red Sox record for a season. 2
There are approximately 20 games left in the regular season and, hence, Valentine’s Red Sox managerial tenure. Given his volatility, I am not convinced that last night was necessarily his walk off shot. But if it was, it was a dandy!
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