DHL Dan CXV - Back On The Chaim Gang

Shank delivers another exciting Picked Up Pieces column, where he continues to bash Red Sox management (among other things):

Picked-up pieces while mourning the loss, and celebrating the life and times, of Tommy Heinsohn …

▪ Chaim Bloom is a devout man with the highest standards of integrity. Given the way he lives his life, was it hard for Bloom to hire a manager who got caught cheating?

“It was certainly something I had to wrestle with, that I had to think a lot about,” the Red Sox chief baseball officer acknowledged in a phone call Thursday night. “I didn’t take it lightly.

"I also came to the conclusion that it wasn’t something that should disqualify him. It wasn’t something that should be held so heavily against him that he should never work in the game again or that I would be unwilling to employ him again.”

It’s hard to believe rehiring Cora was Bloom’s call. Tuesday’s carefully crafted press conference didn’t convince me otherwise.

He also complains about Tom Brady, a new book titled "The Dynasty" because he thinks it was practically written by Bob Kraft, says more nice things about recently deceased Celtics legend Tommy Heinsohn, and thinks the college football season should be cancelled - right now.