Random Thoughts on Friday the 13th

Okay, before we get to the sports talk...

It's Friday April 13th today and I had to scrape ice off of my car windows.  I will take that as an omen that today is going to be a weird one.

Today is the Red Sox home opener.  They are 1-5 on the young season so far.  When their starting pitching has been good (Lester and Dubront) they have been unable to score runs.  When the offense has been good the pitching has been awful.  Today we get Josh Beckett.  Beckett should be the ace.  Unfortunately he's not.  I don't know him personally, but I see the persona he presents to the public, and that person is a stuck up asshole who is more concerned with who ratted out the chicken and beer folks than actually owning up to his part in the epic collapse last September.  He also gives the impression that he believes there is nothing wrong with the team this year and there was nothing wrong with the team last year.  They just managed the biggest choke in regular season history, that's all.  He also thought the media and the public were stupid for thinking there might have been something wrong with his thumb when he went to see three thumb specialists in 24 hours.  This guy is clueless.  He does not live on planet Earth with the rest of us.  He's a joke.  What's worse, he's pitched like shit.  In September he was awful.  In his first start this year he was worse.

Then there's the ownership.  Despite the huge collapse last year and the awful start this year, we seem to have an ownership who is only interested in two things:  Throwing a 100th anniversary party for Fenway park, and Liverpool soccer.  Obviously that is not what we need.  We need an ownership group who will demand excellence from the team.  We need them to tell the players to put up or piss off.  We don't need a general manager who may possibly be a GM in name only, while the actual decisions are made over his head.  We don't need a schmucko the clown of a manager.  We need leadership and we need accountability.  There is no way that Josh Beckett should still be on this team after last year.  There is no way that Daniel Bard should be starting.  John Lackey and Carl Crawford should be gone, regardless of their contracts.  The whole compensation for Epstein fiasco should never have happened.  They have allowed this storied franchise to become a complete farce.  It's time for John Henry and Tom Warner to crack heads.  It's time for them to set the example.  Win or screw.  Ben Cherington should be given free reign to cut the dead weight.  Theo did it in 2004, Ben should do it now.  Today.  That's the way it seemed back in 2004.  The example was set by the owners and it trickled down to the bottom rung on the 40 man roster.  All or nothing.  Win or get out.

Now, having said all of that...

Here is the highlight video from last night's Bruins win.