The Bad Apple Meets Land of the Rising Sun?

By Jon Pysz - Posted on February 28th, 2008

Tagged: mlb • Red Sox • yankees

It looks like Theo Epstein has spent one too many Thanksgiving Dinners at the house of Curt Schilling. In an uncharacteristic move the reserved Theo decided to stir up a little controversy. As a GM of a team sporting Manny, JD Drew, Curt Schilling, and Coco “Start me or Trade me” Crisp, it’s a tough pill to swallow when you go out of the organization to rip the character of a rival teams veteran player.
Epstein said about Mussina in conjunction with the Yankees trip to Japan in 2004, "Kevin Brown and Mike Mussina spent the whole time bitching about it ... and by the time the Yankees team got back from the trip they were all using it as a crutch." Theo referred to Mussina as a “Bad Apple”, and is expecting the Red Sox to have a much better trip. Mussina showing a bit more class responded to the comments with, “Yeah we used it as an excuse for winning the division.” As far as the personal insult Theo hurled his way, “You need a comment from me about him calling me a bad apple? I don’t have one.” Theo has gone way out of bounds on these comments. Was he on board the Yankees flight to Japan? I think his success may have gotten to him; he’s giving the Sox organization the proverbial black eye, someone should remind him he traded Bronson Arroyo for Wily Mo Pena.
Mussina meanwhile has better things to do than take random shots at opposing GM’s. He’s hoping to rebound from one of his worse years professionally. He’s attributing last season to injuries he didn’t disclose, because of the poor state of the Yankees rotation. New manager Joe Girardi has assured Mussina a spot in the rotation and had this to say, “It’s not an accident that he has over 200 wins. Moose knows how to pitch, so we’re counting on him.”

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Hank strikes back

Submitted by John Mugatu on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 23:28.

Theo might have sounded dumb calling out the Yankees (although he was speaking the truth, the Yankees did bitch about that trip, it's just something he didn't need to say) but Thanks Dad Hank spouted off his fantastically big mouth about the Sox:

"Red Sox Nation?" What a bunch of [expletive] that is," he said in an interview with The New York Times' Play magazine. "That was a creation of the Red Sox and ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans. ... Go anywhere in America and you won't see Red Sox hats and jackets, you'll see Yankee hats and jackets. This is a Yankee country. We're going to put the Yankees back on top and restore the universe to order."

How out of touch with this guy? I've gone plenty of places in America and I see a pretty equal amount of Red Sox & Yankees gear. Whenever the Sox or the Yankees are on the road, their fans show up to support them, and in many cases, outnumber the home fans. Silverspoonbrenner doesn't seem to understand the phrase 'Red Sox Nation' - it's just a name given to the large Red Sox fan base, coined by a sportswriter and eventually copyrighted & exploited by an opportunistic ownership group (and for the record, I will never shell out an annual fee to be recognized as an 'official member of Red Sox Nation' - born and raised baby!). He also has come up with some convoluted idea that ESPN, located within an hour of NYC, has a Red Sox bias (when it has an equal, if not greater, bias toward the Yankees). I'm glad this blowhard is running the circus down there - I missed George ranting and raving about this and that, and it gives me another reason the hate the Yankees.

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New manager Joe Girardi has assured Mussina a spot in the rotation and had this to say, “It’s not an accident that he has over 200 wins. Moose knows how to pitch, so we’re counting on him.”