Since it's still a bit too early for Shank to take a crap on the New England Patriots, he's reached just about the six foot level
in burying the 2019 Boston Red Sox.
Dave Dombrowski may have to take the fall for Red Sox’ falloff
Picked-up pieces while planning a rare October vacation . . .
■ I’ll be shocked if Dave Dombrowski is back with the Red Sox next season. Boston’s president of baseball operations has increasingly isolated himself with pals Frank Wren and Tony La Russa and has few friends inside Fenway’s walls. Dombrowski is under contract for just one more season.
When you have the top payroll in baseball and don’t make the playoffs, somebody has to go. Alex Cora isn’t going anywhere. Dombrowski has been exactly what we thought he would be. He delivered a championship. But he gets the blame for the Chris Sale and Nathan Eovaldi contracts and for failing to address the bullpen need. He’s clearly not the guy to oversee a much-needed farm system rebuild.
Was I just saying something about Shank not crapping on the Patriots? Boy, was I WRONG!
■ Fans who don’t think Bill Parcells should be in the Patriots Hall of Fame are irrational, immature, or just too young to know anything.
The Krafts want you to think they are the ones who turned the franchise around. No. Everything changed when Parcells was hired by then-owner James Orthwein. Parcells delivered instant credibility and got a 2-14 team into a Super Bowl in four seasons. He brought Bill Belichick to New England. He drafted Lawyer Milloy, Tedy Bruschi, Ty Law, Curtis Martin, and Willie McGinest.
Parcells left on bad terms after Kraft betrayed him, instructing Bobby Grier to make a first-round draft pick behind Parcells’s back.
Ask yourselves this, Parcells haters: How would Belichick have handled things if Kraft ordered Nick Caserio to overrule Belichick on draft day — without informing Belichick of what was going to happen?
Naturally, that is
not the entire story about the Bill Parcells Era with the Patriots. Shank left a few things out in making his pitch.
4 comments:
Shank leaves things out alot
in a fire or on a hill
Can someone point out to Shank that 2 of the LAST 3 homegames in Foxboro in Parcells first season in 1993 had attendance UNDER 30,000??????? You can look it up:
12/12 Bengals - 29,794
12/26 Colts - 26,571
How in the world is that "saving the franchise"?
Kraft buys the team less than 3 weeks after that local TV blackout season and almost as many people as attended those games buy SEASON TICKETS that first day upon the news of him purchasing the team. The 23 years post-Parcells sees the Patriots go to 9 SBs and win 6. The Tuna was a fart in the wind.
Shank really holds a grudge for being banned from that media breakfast in Foxboro in the 90's..........
And you are shocked by this
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