Sizzlin, can you get a link or something on this story? Not that I doubt your sources, but it seems so preposterous that I'd like to see the context in what it was said.
If this is really true, what more could the Sox do? They stuck with him all through last year until he snapped out of his funk and have done the same this year. Outside of his reduced playing time in NL opponents ball parks and being taken out for Olerud for defense late in games, I can't think of what could he possibly be unhappy about. And if that's what he's bitching about, well then let him go honor the contract with Japan that he would have been stuck with had the Red Sox organization not gone out of their way to get him out of it and bring him here.