FORT MYERS, Fla. — In an attempt to clear the air and explain the motivations behind the trade that sent Mookie Betts to the Dodgers last week, Red Sox principal owner John Henry, chairman Tom Werner, and CEO Sam Kennedy delivered comments and answered questions for 32 awkward minutes Monday morning at JetBlue Park.I'm wondering why ownership can't bring themselves to say 'Mookie wanted to be traded' or 'Mookie wanted to play for the Dodgers' - even this casual fan saw that last year when the subject first came up. It doesn't serve Shank to bring that up, either (though he's done so in the past) so he can continue to bash Red Sox ownership for a little longer.
I would not say they stuck the landing. It went about as well as Deval Patrick’s presidential bid and the quest to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston.
Little is likely to change in the wake of Sox management’s effort to explain a salary dump that the club refuses to acknowledge is a salary dump. Folks who hate the Betts deal are unlikely to feel any better from what was said at the tense presser. The Red Sox seem to know this.
One other thing - we might start the Mookie Betts Watch, like Mike B. was doing every time His Shankness mentioned Larry Bird in his columns over the years. How many times this year will Shank bring up this trade? I'm going with a dozen, and that's probably low.
2 comments:
Dan wants his curse back. This trade will get it back mark my words
Under Henry and Werner's ownership, the team has raised four championship banners. FOUR after 86 years of futility and frustration. Does Dan really think these decisions are made in a vacuum? Should every decision be based on the whims of the fanbase or the local media?
Maybe Mookie will go on to a Hall of Fame career with the Dodgers, the Yankees, or some other team, but baseball is a business and if the team and player couldn't agree to an arrangement ahead of free agency, then why risk losing him for nothing more than a draft pick?
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