..the story was released on Sept.3, weren't the Sox 9 games up(.5 out of first) on that date?
"Is very bad"...to make Bambino mad...
A lack of clubhouse leadership was almost certainly one concern.
“They don’t need a leader,” one prominent Red Sox player said Friday on the condition of anonymity. “They need a babysitter.”
The Boston Herald reported another divisive issue, citing sources as saying that pitchers were allowed to drink beer in the clubhouse on their off days. A Red Sox source not only confirmed to ESPNBoston.com that was the case, but also said that it “has been going on for two years.”
Francona didn’t want to go there Friday afternoon, reasoning that if as manager, he’d never singled out players before for petty crimes and misdemeanors, including the poster boy for such behavior, Manny Ramirez, he wasn’t about to start now.
“Lucchino said after Friday’s news conference he had a “low” level of awareness “until very recently” that this had been going on. His reaction when he did find out?
“Surprise,” he said, before adding, “Yeah, there were some other emotions, but I’d rather just leave it at that.”
A third issue of concern that has circulated widely was a perceived indifference to conditioning by some players — “gluttony,” one Red Sox executive called it.”
http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7040260/terry-francona-boston-red-sox-part-ways-two-titles
It really makes you wonder, doesn’t it? “Club house factors”— euphemism or maybe “youphemism?” Shut everybody up who doesn’t play along, or is uncomfortable with behavior intolerable to them , then expect championship performance. How will it play out in the military?