Nineteen degrees in Cleveland, snow and slush
everywhere. It must be a good time to talk some baseball.
That’s certainly what new Indians manager Terry
Francona has been doing lately. Question is, why is talking more about a team he
last managed in 2011 than the team he will skipper this year?
Francona was on ESPN just the other day talking
about the Red Sox, the team he led to World Series titles before new owners
took over and fired him after the 2011 season. [Can you say Paul Brown?] Then
yesterday, I’m in the store and I see a magazine cover where he’s on the same
topic. Has this guy got a book coming out?
Without bothering to google the answer to that
question, but wanting to satisfy my curiosity, I called a Red Sox lifer in Boston
yesterday and put the question to him: why hasn’t Francona moved on? Why now?
My source defended Francona, saying the new Boston
owners threw him under the bus unmercifully when they fired him in 2011. They
spread all kinds of stories about his flaws in the aftermath of Boston’s epic
meltdown in September 2011. Francona just left town, nursed his wounds, and
said nothing until he got another contract. Now he’s just setting the record
straight.
Sounds like this Francona’s a smart guy. As B. B. King and Ernestine Anderson like to sing, "Never make your move too soon".
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