Welp, Bobby V is a liar, Josh Beckett is a douche bag, and the team's official problem is it's starting pitching...if you're charting at home that's actually an improvement from a week ago when I wasn't sure exactly what the problem with this team was.
But when your "top 3 pitchers" can't out perform your 4 and 5 guys, a guy who just cracked the big leagues full time this season and another guy who'd been a reliever and hadn't started a game since Single A...that's a recipe for a sucky team.
And not only are they not outperforming these guys...They're not outperforming anyone in the league. I don't have it in me to look it up right now but we have to have the highest Starting Pitcher ERA in baseball, it can't really be close. They suck. Buchholz needs to go away. Make up an injury, send him to the DL with dead arm, bad back, sucky pitcher, whatever flies with the commish's office and get him the fuck out of here.
Beckett...What the fuck dude? When did you decide you just didn't give a shit about anything? "my off day is my off day." Go fly a fucking kite. It wasn't an off day...You were skipped in the rotation, and not just to save you a start, but because there was pain and injury concerns. Go do whatever the hell you want, it's your right, but don't expect anyone to like it, and don't expect the fans to respect you...Nice job turning it around last night too, it'd be one thing if you were all defiant after tossing out 7 innings of 2 run ball or something...its another thing entirely when you goat-the fuck out and can't make it 3 innings. You're the worst. The absolute worst. I can't remember seeing someone who so clearly didn't give a shit about anything in a very long time.
And Bobby V...brought in there to be no-nonsense, break up the buddy-buddy relationship Tito had with the players and you come out with this absolute gem of a lie last night:
"I don't think there's any concern about him making his next start or even if he could have with the extra day, made this start," Valentine said at the time. "It would have been a situation we would have had to watch carefully, so there's no need."..."Again," Valentine said, "I didn't think he was injured. You know, he was skipped."
Umm, no Bobby, that's a lie, know how I know this? Because just last week you said the EXACT OPPOSITE.
The thing is, Beckett had been dealing with the stiffness even before his 126-pitch outing last Sunday against the White Sox, and manager Bobby Valentine knew nothing of it. That fact disappointed the first year Red Sox manager, Valentine told reporters.“We have a system set up to have information flow. It just seemed like there was a little snag there,” Valentine said. “It’s not up to him to come into the manager’s office, but you talk to the pitching coach all the time and the trainers all the time. That information usually flows up. In retrospect, it would’ve been nice to know that.”
So that's good. You're just blatantly lying about something you readily admitted just one week ago.
