Come on, give me a real alternative.
What the hell makes you think a player that has made $70MM+ in his career would want to put in the crazy hours that is involved with being a major league manager?
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/D_Thompson/qTgF9.gif
ROFL
Anyways, obviously Francona has flaws but for anyone to put the entire blame on him for the performance of this team is just ridiculous.