https://www.overthemonster.com/2017/7/28/16055264/the-friday-fire-farrell-index-things-get-very-bleak-very-fast-groan
To be clear, this players first approach — can have some unfortunate consequences in the bruised-ego department. We’re way past that now. The largely undisputed play-by-play of Price et. al’s confrontation with NESN’s Dennis Eckersley paints the team a bunch of spoiled *******s, and Farrell’s response effectively makes it plain that either his hands or tied or he simply doesn’t care, or, most likely, some combination of both...
Without a clear obvious player representative in the clubhouse and without manager inclined to even aspire to it, small beefs have been blown up to maniacal proportions as a perverse team-building exercise.