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The Red Sox hired Bobby Valentine because... (1 Viewer)

I like Show but he's full of crap saying they practiced the Jeter play. Maybe it HAPPENED at a practice because Jeter was out of position but that's it. No way it was a drill. Also Bobby V's quotes may just make thia season bearable for us Sox fans. It's gonna get ugly with that pitching. 98.5's Bobby invented skit was so $$money if you can find it. Toucher and Rich show. It was so great.

 
'Matthias said:
Then don't listen to him. Don't read his quotes. And don't post them on message boards. And create an alias with a shorter user name, for chrissakes.He's a new coach whose team captain who had played with them for 15 years, just retired. What do you want him to say? He was terrible? He wasn't a captain? Let me tell you about the time he left men on base?
Right, because talking up a guy on your team means you have to randomly say thing about players on other teams.
 
'PIK95 said:
I like Show but he's full of crap saying they practiced the Jeter play. Maybe it HAPPENED at a practice because Jeter was out of position but that's it. No way it was a drill. Also Bobby V's quotes may just make thia season bearable for us Sox fans. It's gonna get ugly with that pitching. 98.5's Bobby invented skit was so $$money if you can find it. Toucher and Rich show. It was so great.
:lmao: Not only do they practice it but Bobby V came out and admitted he was wrong today
 
'PIK95 said:
I like Show but he's full of crap saying they practiced the Jeter play. Maybe it HAPPENED at a practice because Jeter was out of position but that's it. No way it was a drill. Also Bobby V's quotes may just make thia season bearable for us Sox fans. It's gonna get ugly with that pitching. 98.5's Bobby invented skit was so $$money if you can find it. Toucher and Rich show. It was so great.
:lmao: Not only do they practice it but Bobby V came out and admitted he was wrong today
Bobby was wrong. But there is still no way (or reason) they practice THAT play.
 
I pretty much hate Valentine. Any way we can get him extradited to the Middle East or something?? I can't stand listening to him, either doing interviews or giving his opinion on baseball.

 
MLB needed something like this. The NFL overshadowed Opening Day, the NBA is going strong, the NHL is trending well....and MLB has been pretty quiet in the offseason.

 
Valentine Will Add Athletic Director to His Résumé By BILL PENNINGTON Published: February 22, 2013 In October, standing next to the Yankee Stadium infield before one of his last games as manager of the Boston Red Sox, Bobby Valentine was asked what he would do next if he were fired when the season ended. Fired after a 69-93 season, Bobby Valentine will become the athletic director for Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. “I don’t know,” said Valentine, who was let go three days later. “But it will be something interesting. Those are the only kinds of jobs I take.” Valentine, the part-time restaurateur and broadcaster, former public safety official, longtime major league manager in two countries and self-proclaimed inventor of the wrap sandwich, has kept his word with another unorthodox career choice. Even by Valentine’s standards, it was a thunderbolt of the unexpected. Beginning in July, Valentine will be the athletic director for Sacred Heart University, a Division I program in Fairfield, Conn., with 31 sports. Valentine, 62, grew up in Stamford, about 20 miles away. It will be Valentine’s first collegiate administrative job. “This is what I do,” Valentine said in a telephone interview Friday afternoon. “I accept challenges, and I enjoy life. And to hell with public perception. “We’ll see if I can lend some of my entrepreneurial spirit to the job.” Sacred Heart announced the retirement of its longtime athletic director, Don Cook, in November. Valentine, who has spoken at Sacred Heart several times and appeared at fund-raisers for the university, became a candidate for the post a month later. Valentine’s renown in the area as a former manager of the Mets, Red Sox and Texas Rangers and as a businessman — he once had sports bars in several cities along the Connecticut coastline — was a significant draw for Sacred Heart, which moved up from Division II in 1999. The university, whose baseball team has appeared in the last two N.C.A.A. championship tournaments, has called a news conference for Tuesday to introduce Valentine as its athletic director. A university press officer said Sacred Heart officials would not comment on Valentine’s appointment until then. Valentine also said he wanted to say little until Tuesday. “It’ll be a very interesting thing to do,” he said. “I’m certainly not afraid of expanding my résumé.” Valentine, who also managed twice in Japan, was hired in a surprising move by the Red Sox before the 2012 season. The unconventional pick upset some of Boston’s veteran players before the regular season started. The Red Sox, troubled by injuries that turned the lineup into a cavalcade of minor leaguers, finished 69-93, their worst record since 1965. Before taking the Boston assignment, Valentine was named the director of public safety in Stamford. He also still owns a popular bar and restaurant in Stamford, where in 1982, while working as a cook in the kitchen, Valentine ran out of toast for club sandwiches and threw all the ingredients into a tortilla. “I rolled it up, and I melted a little cheese on the top to keep the tortilla from opening up,” Valentine said last year. At first he called it a “Club Mex” but later began calling it a wrap. “We put it on the menu as a club sandwich wrap: turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato and cheese,” Valentine said. “Now, yes, I had eaten burritos. But had someone put American sandwich ingredients in a tortilla? I don’t think so.” Sacred Heart said Cook, the outgoing athletic director, would stay in the job until July, when Valentine would take over. With a little snicker Friday, Valentine said, “That gives me time to hit the ground running.”

 
Bobby Valentine got fired after one ugly season in Boston but according to him, it didn't matter who the manager was.

"I thought I did a hell of a job in Boston," Valentine said. "I thought what had to be done there was done, except for winning a pennant- but Connie Mack wasn't gonna win with that team."

Valentine was introduced Tuesday as the athletic director at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield -- a job be was available for because of the miserable season the Red Sox had a year ago when they finished 69-93.

And he doesn't believe the disaster in Fenway tarnishes his legacy.

"It's six months of a 62-year life," Valentine said. "It's six months of a 42-year career in baseball. It's a blip, a little spot on the radar, as far as I'm concerned."
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: How do you not love this guy?

 
Bobby Valentine got fired after one ugly season in Boston but according to him, it didn't matter who the manager was.

"I thought I did a hell of a job in Boston," Valentine said. "I thought what had to be done there was done, except for winning a pennant- but Connie Mack wasn't gonna win with that team."

Valentine was introduced Tuesday as the athletic director at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield -- a job be was available for because of the miserable season the Red Sox had a year ago when they finished 69-93.

And he doesn't believe the disaster in Fenway tarnishes his legacy.

"It's six months of a 62-year life," Valentine said. "It's six months of a 42-year career in baseball. It's a blip, a little spot on the radar, as far as I'm concerned."
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: How do you not love this guy?
I'm not a big fan and I think he was a bad hire for the Sox. I blame ownership more then BV, even though I'd love to pin all the blame on him. When you ask the guy to come in and clean up the beer drinking and fried chicken eating and 1 week into spring training when he tries to discipline the players and ownership tells him to settle down because the players are unhappy..... he never had a chance. They really should have fired him on the spot because it was obvious it wasn't going to work right then and there.
 
We are still 13 days away from the All-Star Game, and the Red Sox need only 17 W's to match their 2012 total of 69 wins.

Bring back Bobby!

 
Is there any doubt whatsoever anymore that the entire team tanked on purpose to get Bobby fired?

You'll never convince me that a team can go from that bad to this great in one year, with largely the same roster, without them laying down last season.

 
Is there any doubt whatsoever anymore that the entire team tanked on purpose to get Bobby fired?

You'll never convince me that a team can go from that bad to this great in one year, with largely the same roster, without them laying down last season.
I dont doubt that the team quit on him, but it is hardly the same roster. Aviles, AGon, Crawford, Ross, Youk, Beckett, and perhaps a couple others I am missing are all gone. Victorino, Napoli, Carp, Drew are here now.

 
Is there any doubt whatsoever anymore that the entire team tanked on purpose to get Bobby fired?

You'll never convince me that a team can go from that bad to this great in one year, with largely the same roster, without them laying down last season.
I dont doubt that the team quit on him, but it is hardly the same roster. Aviles, AGon, Crawford, Ross, Youk, Beckett, and perhaps a couple others I am missing are all gone. Victorino, Napoli, Carp, Drew are here now.
This doesn't help your point. That list of former players are better than the ones who replaced them.

 
Is there any doubt whatsoever anymore that the entire team tanked on purpose to get Bobby fired?

You'll never convince me that a team can go from that bad to this great in one year, with largely the same roster, without them laying down last season.
I dont doubt that the team quit on him, but it is hardly the same roster. Aviles, AGon, Crawford, Ross, Youk, Beckett, and perhaps a couple others I am missing are all gone. Victorino, Napoli, Carp, Drew are here now.
This doesn't help your point. That list of former players are better than the ones who replaced them.
:shrug:

Perhaps the guys they shipped out were the culprits? I have no idea. Either way, not sure it is a for sure that Agon/Youk/Crawford/Ross is better than Victorino/Napoli/Carp/Drew. I am assuming we all agree that Beckett is a doosh regardless of who he plays for and we all root against him because of that fact

 
I don't think anyone who makes a World Series can be called the worst manager ever.

Valentine is no Terry Bevington.

 
'75 Red Sox manager Darrell Johnson has by far the worst career WL% and G<.500 stats of any pennant winning manager of the modern era. That came mostly from managing the expansion Mariners after Boston fired him.

Clint Hurdle is next on the list.

 
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Bobby V starting bringing relevance to a Texas Ranger franchise right before Nolan showed up. I have to give him credit for that alone. Then again, I like his restaurant that's still in Arlington, so I might be bias.

 
Bobby V starting bringing relevance to a Texas Ranger franchise right before Nolan showed up. I have to give him credit for that alone. Then

again, I like his restaurant that's still in Arlington, so I might be bias.
He invented the sandwich wrap you know

 

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