Boston - Robert John Valentine will be the 45th manager of the Boston Red Sox, the team selecting him within the last few hours. No contract is in place. But Mike Lynch of Channel 5 is reporting that the Red Sox have a "verbal agreement" with Valentine to be their next manager. Major league sources told Globe colleague Nick Cafardo just prior to that report that Valentine would be the next manager but a deal was not done.
So we’re really hiring Bobby Valentine, huh? Not gonna go with my advice and check into John Valentin? I mean, I checked out his resume, the guy’s available, he’s the hitting instructor for the Albuquerque Isotopes…being an assistant coach for a made up minor league team from the Simpsons is the definition of availalable...
And trust me, that makes him more than qualified after someone of the schmos the sox interviewed this off season, I mean, Dale Sveum? Let me break down his managerial highlights:
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| You don't have to guess, He Was Out. |
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| Dale Sveum's managerial career. |
Crickets. No offense Dale, there's just not much there.
And bobby valentine? Hey you seem like a nice , personable guy, but aren’t you the same one who’s been playing parachutes or whatever the hell you guys are doing over there, in Japan for the last decade and making random appearnces on TBS? And aren’t you the same guy who was giddy telling everyone how well Daisuke's skills will translate to the MLB?
Maybe I’m being too hard, on him, who knows? I kinda just wish they went outside the box and didn’t go for some retread who’s washed out to some foreign country that measures how many miles per hour someone's fastball is in Kilometers, it just doesn't make sense. I'll tell you who sure as hell doesn't measure Miles per hour in kilometers, John Valentin (I'd also have accept Scott Cooper or Tim Naehring).
