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• Josh Beckett And Potty Passes

  October 13, 2011

  Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett took a beating from the Boston Globe, which recounted how he and fellow pitchers Jon Lester and John Lackey ate fried chicken, drank beer and played video games in their clubhouse while their teammates were playing.
  
  The Palm Beach Post piled on, noting that manager Jack McKeon had to shoo Beckett from the clubhouse during games back in 2003.
  
  “In between innings they’d go to the clubhouse to get a drink or hang out,” McKeon told the Post
  
  “I said, ‘Hey, I got no rule against going up if you have to go to the bathroom or something, but get back.’ A couple of times I looked down the bench to talk to somebody and they weren’t there. They were in the clubhouse. So I went up and got them out and said, ‘OK, boys that’s it. We’ll lock the door.’”
  
  That’s pretty bad. Here is what’s worse: McKeon had to issue bathroom passes for playing seeking to leave the dugout.
  
  In June, McKeon recalled in June how he handed out what he called “poo-poo cards and pee-pee cards. Put them where I was sitting (in the dugout), so if you wanted to go to bathroom you had to get a card. That broke it up.”
  
  Managing a big-league team look easy on television, but it is not. Imagine high school boys who never grow up, but get more disposable income than could ever spend.
  
  That’s a recipe for disaster, as the Red Sox demonstrated. It's no wonder that general manager Theo Epstein is running away as fast as he can.

  On WEEI radio, Curt Schilling weighed in on the death of the Red Sox pitching work ethic:
  
  “I've talked to enough people to know that it's not lies. I think that the loss of John Farrell had a massive amount to do with why this all happened. I spoke to him the other day and the first thing I said to him was 'Wow. I don't see any of this happening if you stay.' And he was like, 'Well, it might have happened, but there would have been a couple of fist-fights along the way and I would have been gone at some point.' Poor Curt Young because here's a guy coming in to a veteran staff trying to get to know his pitchers and they . . . the amount of disrespect that the players involved here showed to each other, to the organization, to Tito, to the game, is staggering to me. Probably as staggering are some of the names that are on that list. I'm blown away. I'm incredibly disappointed. Things have changed here for a long, long time, and I think it's for the worse. I think the way that this was handled by the organization is pathetic and embarrassing. Why would you want to root for this team?”

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• Schilling Blames Players For Red Sox Collapse

  September 27, 2011

  So who’s to blame for the Red Sox collapse?
  
  Noisy ex-hurler Curt Schilling told WEEI’s Dennis & Callahan that what is happening is “100 percent on the players.”
  
  Oh, and maybe it's on general manager Theo Epstein, too. But he spared manager Terry “Tito” Francona any criticism for the cave-in.
  
  “I think more of it's on Theo than on Tito, anyway,” Schilling told the show. “I would tell you that the environment around what they're doing now, the guy managing this team is the only guy that could keep them together. I would argue that with another manager in this position right now, you'd have some in-fighting, big-time in-fighting going on given what they're going through.”
  
  If the Red Sox somehow stopped the bleeding, could they become a playoff factor?
  
  “They can man up, find a way, someone can do something, they win a game, they win this thing, they roll into the playoffs and say 'OK, wait a minute. We just went through it. There's nothing we can go through that's worse than what we did,'" Schilling said. “They can use that, and Josh (Beckett) and Jon (Lester) can turn it around, but they're going to walk away with at least their heads not held down.”
  
  JUST WONDERING
  
  Would the White Sox try to pry Tony La Russa from the Cardinals now that Ozzie Guillen has fled to South Florida?

  Is life taking a positive turn for battered Bears quarterback Jay Cutler?

  Do Cris Collinsworth and Al Michaels ever get tired of talking football?

  What can you really do when the referees completely blow a critical call?
  
  CRUMMY EFFORT OF THE NIGHT
  
  On their way to the golf course, the Indians accepted a 14-0 beating from the Tigers. At least that Ubaldo Jimenez trade is working out great for them.
  
  FROM THE ONION SPORTS NETWORK
  
  “Brewers Inform Nyjer Morgan Playoff Roster Only Has Room For 2 Alter Egos.”
  
  FROM THE TWEETDECK
  
  Dez Bryant: “I wasn't for sure about going tonight but if a guy with a puncture lung and broken rib can get out there and play I can..Tony inspired me.”
  
  FROM THE BLOG-O-SPEAR
  
  Golden Gate Giants, via Big League Stew, pay tribute to the defending champions:
  
  Giants, Giants, Giants. I'm beyond disappointed to see you here.
  
  After you brought us all such excitement and joy last year — heck, I even framed the love letter I wrote to you — to see you miss out on the chance to defend your World Series title is downright depressing. You battled through adversity and made it exciting towards the end, and yet you still ended up on the outside looking in. The "World Series Champions" patches you've insisted on wearing all year long have become nothing but a sad reminder of opportunity wasted. This was the lost season; the season where sky-high expectations were crushed by the weight of cold, hard reality.
  
  You know why you're here. You can blame injuries for this year's disappointments, but your problems ran much deeper than the well-populated disabled list. Your offense was anemic, your defense was at times atrocious, and the lack of support you provided to your all-world pitching staff was criminal. If it wasn't for your starting pitching, you might've lost 90 games this year. Why are you laughing, Aubrey Huff? Is this funny to you? And for God's sake, put some pants on. We've all seen that thong.

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