Sox players may still be at odds over leaked clubhouse information
From ESPN Boston
It's completely understandable if guy's still harbor grudges against the player(s) who ratted out the clubhouse. A locker room is supposed to be like Vegas. What ever happens there - or is talked about within the confines of the clubhouse - stays there. There's been talk that Scutaro was thought to be the rat and that's why he was traded so abruptly, but there isn't any hard proof at this time (just the mindless grumblings of Andy Gresh).
The bottom line is the Red Sox as a team need to move on. While that may be a tough thing to do if there is no trust, it doesn't mean that the players shouldn't put everything that happened last season behind them. It's the only way that this team is going to win any games. Because if there is on thing that is clear about this group it's that the talent is there. The only question now is do the Red Sox have the heart to become the team they have the potential to be.
For the second time in as many days, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney painted the Red Sox as a team with lingering clubhouse discord from last September's collapse and the reports of pitchers drinking beer and eating fried chicken that followed.
Olney suggests that some Sox players still resent the source or sources that leaked the information for the Boston Globe's report, which shined a spotlight on the team's clubhouse dysfunction.
"There are still some players on that team angry with what happened last fall," Olney said on the Mike and Mike show on ESPN Radio this morning (video above). "The accusations, questions about who the mole was on that chicken and beer story. One loud conversation I heard about between two teammates on that team. They've got to get that settled. This isn't necessarily about Bobby Valentine, this is about players turning the page and moving forward."
It's completely understandable if guy's still harbor grudges against the player(s) who ratted out the clubhouse. A locker room is supposed to be like Vegas. What ever happens there - or is talked about within the confines of the clubhouse - stays there. There's been talk that Scutaro was thought to be the rat and that's why he was traded so abruptly, but there isn't any hard proof at this time (just the mindless grumblings of Andy Gresh).
The bottom line is the Red Sox as a team need to move on. While that may be a tough thing to do if there is no trust, it doesn't mean that the players shouldn't put everything that happened last season behind them. It's the only way that this team is going to win any games. Because if there is on thing that is clear about this group it's that the talent is there. The only question now is do the Red Sox have the heart to become the team they have the potential to be.
