Sure he did, and nobody says they aren't.
I have always thought that Henry considers himself a smart baseball guy and wants his team to win. I refuse to believe he's happy right now with the state of the team. We all saw what happened to Cherington.
That's a fair question, but an equally fair question is whether he wants to keep finishing under .500 and getting booed whenever he appears in public.
I think he expected Bloom to trim payroll and win, not just the former.