What Do You Think Happened in the Clubhouse?
Heard from songbird Tim Wakefield about his big record-chasing event. That’s not the reason for clubhouse issues but it does signal to me a lack of accountability and selfishness.Some people have disagreed with me that the captain should be saying something to the fans following this 2011 collapse. I am on the complete opposite side of this opinion. Their reasoning is he ended the season banged-up and so it’s out of sight, out of mind. It’s not like he was a culprit anyway. Varitek played two weeks ago and then was shut down. That’s still a participant who went pretty far into the process. So where are his statements on what happened to his team?? That’s what I want to know. I like to hear from leadership when things don’t go well, even if it’s just to take accountability. Am I wrong?
I have a whole bench of reasonable, Freudian-speculations about this year’s team because for 1: it’s fun to theorize when you have nothing else to play with and it’s still two months before any real 2012 action starts and 2: I think looking back on the fabric of this team, they were always capable of really bad stretches of baseball. They wobbled very easily and could come off-track in hard ways.
By now you know, when Francona did the interview the other day with WBZ' Dan Roche he was wearing that 'Popeye' tshirt that said “Well Blow Me Down!” A pretty standard Popeye line except Tito crossed his arms over the word “down” so the Popeye quote
