Least favorite Red Sox player ever?

[BigPapiEnFuego]

After seeing Tavarez and Gathright mentioned I looked them up on wikipedia and this is what Joey Gathright's article said:

 

Joey Renard Gathright (born April 27, 1981, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who currently works as a fry cook at Burger King.

 

hahaha

[Six4Three]

No mention of Coco Crisp? His dirty slide and charging of the mound against the Rays in '08 were a disgrace. It only cost the Sox the whole season.

[SoxSport]

Mike Torres comes to mind. That hanging slider that Dent hit over the wall will live in infamy. As will Buckner's inexcusable '86 World Series blooper.

 

That 86 World Series was not won by the Mets. It was lost by the Red Sox--with poor management and poor execution. There should have been a few executions after that one. The manager did lose his job.

 

Two infamous front office types come to mind. The first was the owner Harry Frazee, who sold the Babe and a few others off the Red Sox championship team to a losing Yankee team in 1920. I still think it was a deliberate effort to establish a winner for the AL in NY where the NL was dominating. Just a few switches of uniform did the trick.

 

The other was Haywood Sullivan, Red Sox GM in the late 70s during the advent of free agency. Sullivan sneered at free agency while Steinbrenner was buying up every FA in sight. Sullivan even let Fisk and Lynn go on a technicality (deliberately missing a deadline), without getting anything in return. A team wrecker.

[Wil Corderos Wife]

No mention of Coco Crisp? His dirty slide and charging of the mound against the Rays in '08 were a disgrace. It only cost the Sox the whole season.

 

Calm yourself.

 

I didn't agree with the mound charge, but the whole thing was kinda funny. Plus I was at that game.

[Six4Three]

The Rays had 0.00% swagger before that series and the Sox were in first place. A month later the Sox were down 5 games to the Rays, a team that should not have even had a winning record that year. Their confidence clearly carried over into the ALCS.

 

All because Coco was mad that Jason Bartlett's leg was in the way during Coco's slide attempt (wtf?), to which he responded by trying to injure Iwamura (not break up a double play) , which resulted in Shields correctly drilling Coco in the hip. Everyone in the stadium knew he was going to get hit and he was lucky he wasn't beaned.

 

The Rays did nothing wrong, Coco did nothing right. Season: lost.

[Wil Corderos Wife]

Pretty interesting that we lost the bloody season in a game that we dominated.

[Six4Three]

If the Rays lost the game I'm sure it had something to do with Shield's early exit.

 

(edit: Sox won 7-1 with the loss going to Shields. I'll stick with my point though, the Red Sox blew the season during those two games.)

 

Another least favorite Red Sox employee: the man or men who decided not to sign Willie Mays.

[RedSoxFaithful]

I woukd say Julio Lugo, He was awful since day one.

[SoxSport]

I woukd say Julio Lugo' date=' He was awful since day one.[/quote']

 

not too bad his 1st year, when they won the world series. still one of Theo's bad signs.

[Cocos Disciples]

not too bad his 1st year' date=' when they won the world series. still one of Theo's bad signs.[/quote']

 

Statistically, 2007 was his worst year with the Sox: .237/.294/.349. That's pretty brutal, especially for a guy who was .277/.340/.402 in his career until then.

[Station 13]

.... wrong thread

[SoxSport]

Statistically' date=' 2007 was his worst year with the Sox: .237/.294/.349. That's pretty brutal, especially for a guy who was .277/.340/.402 in his career until then.[/quote']

 

I better stop "defending" Lugo. LOL. He was pretty bad. Maybe not as bad defensively in'07.

 

I think he took steroids to get those big offensive numbers in previous years. He had the telltale leg muscle problems in Boston.

[Jwmann2]

Babe Ruth. Okay okay, it was Frazee's fault.

[BornToRun]

I used to hold my breath every time Javier Lopez trotted out of the pen.

[BOSOX11]

I forgot Don Pavletich. Just what the Red Sox needed - an over-the-hill, self-professed, sore-armed catcher.

[Beaneater]

I will now (almost) commit heresy.

 

There's almost nothing I like less than cocky, self-aggrandizing, trash-talking athletes. With that in mind, I'm pretty sure that I would hate Dustin Pedroia if he played for any other team. If he played for the Yankees, I'd hate him with supernova fury. Could you imagine that little dude in pinstripes yapping about laser shows, kicking our arse with wall-ball doubles, and then high-fiving A-Rod? Ugh... makes me nauseous just thinking about it.

 

As it is, man, I love that little guy.

[Palodios]

I think Pedroia really isn't a Yankee-type player, is he? When was the last time they drafted someone who was 5'5?

[BornToRun]

I think Pedroia really isn't a Yankee-type player' date=' is he? When was the last time they drafted someone who was 5'5?[/quote']

 

When's the last time the Yankees didn't have a player who gave off anything other than the aura of being a complete s***-eating douchebag?

[Ravenous916]

When's the last time the Yankees didn't have a player who gave off anything than the aura of being a complete s***-eating douchebag?

 

what came first, did they eat s*** and then become yankees? or were they s*** eaters after? every one LOVED Damon, now hes an *******. We almost had A-Rod...

 

I think the Yanks blow too, don't get me wrong, but just wonderin... :dunno:

[BornToRun]

what came first, did they eat s*** and then become yankees? or were they s*** eaters after? every one LOVED Damon, now hes an *******. We almost had A-Rod...

 

I think the Yanks blow too, don't get me wrong, but just wonderin... :dunno:

 

Anyone who becomes a Yankee is instantly transformed into a s***-eater and douche, if they were so before joing the Yankees, the effect is doubled (see Roger Clemens)

 

Also, Damon is a rare case as he is the biggest shitbag of all but wasn't before joining the Skankees. His traitorous actions caused him to digest such a large amount of s*** that he was able to have the Clemens effect without even being a douche beforehand.

[Beaneater]

I think Pedroia really isn't a Yankee-type player' date=' is he? When was the last time they drafted someone who was 5'5?[/quote']

 

No, Pedroia isn't in the Yankees mold. For one thing, he'd have to shave on a regular basis. But it was just a hypothetical. Just imagine Pedey in a Yankees uni. Eeeewwwwww.

 

And I think you've got the height wrong. He's actually 4'11".