The odds seemed to be in the favor of Terry Francona becoming the first manager to get whacked this season. The Boston Red Sox were swept by the Baltimore Orioles, the worst team in the majors. The Red Sox are sinking toward Baltimore's depth.American League East Standings (5/03/10)
Tampa Bay 18 - 7 .720
New York 16 - 8 .667 1 1/2
Toronto 13 - 13 .500 5 1/2
Boston 11 - 14 .440 7
Baltimore 7 - 18 .280 11
Here we are in May and the Red Sox are pretty much done. Sorry ESPN, all the Yankee/Red Sox games you covet are meaningless. (Same thing happened to ESPN's other coveted possession, the Duke/North Carolina rivalry this year. Must be the way the planets are aligned.)
Dustin Pedroia summed up the weekend series in Baltimore.
“Everyone thought Baltimore was three easy wins and we got our ass kicked three times,” Pedroia said. “We’re going to have to play a lot better, especially against those teams. And soon.”
Pedroia sounds ticked off, his general manager, Theo Epstein has reached the boiling point.
"We talked about this last week. We’re still playing bad baseball. Unintelligent, undisciplined, uninspired baseball. It’s got to change." Epstein ranted to the Boston Herald.
“It either changes itself or we have to do something to change it.”
Usually that "something to change it" means a manager is about to be fired. I would say Terry Francona is on the clock.
The Boston Herald has it covered.
The Red Sox look like a team that's in disarray and playing just for a paycheck. The holdovers from the championship years (2004 & 2007) have had enough. They keep grinding it out which was how the Sox won World Series championships but the newcomers don't seem to get it.
How many Yankee fans are enjoying how miserable the Red Sox have become.
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