From the top down, it seems that the 2011 Boston Red Sox were somewhat rudderless. That is amazing considering the management talent that was apparent within the organization.
Are the Sox now fat and happy? As Bob Ryan points out in today's Boston Globe, ownership, management, players, all knew that they had some problem children in the clubhouse, but since things were going well, they let it slide.
Let that be a lesson, the best time to come down on multi-millionaire players are when things are going good. As my wife calls it, come in with the compliment sandwich.
It goes something like this: "Hey Josh...you looked great out there today. Had the curveball under control all night. Great job. Oh, by the way, you may need to work on your sobriety in-between starts. But really, I thought that third inning, you did a wonderful job of shaking off those errors by Scutaro and Crawford, buckling down and getting that double-play to get us out of the inning with just a single run on the board."
For whatever reasons, the GM, the Manager, the Captain, the de-facto Captain (Dustin Pedroia), could not or would not step up and get in the players faces and call them out.
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