Comments on: Dear Theo: Thank you for not trading Jon Lester http://37feetup.com/2008/05/20/dear-theo-thank-you-for-not-trading-jon-lester/ Red Sox Obsessed Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:46:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: jayman http://37feetup.com/2008/05/20/dear-theo-thank-you-for-not-trading-jon-lester/#comment-117 jayman Fri, 23 May 2008 20:38:25 +0000 http://37feetup.com/2008/05/20/dear-theo-thank-you-for-not-trading-jon-lester/#comment-117 You think (or thought) Francona is a bad game manager? I always felt he did a decent job of putting his players in a position for them to truly succeed. Which i think is the primary responsibility of a manager. Plus, I think how he has incorporated some NL style managing into the sox the last few years has been impressive. You think (or thought) Francona is a bad game manager? I always felt he did a decent job of putting his players in a position for them to truly succeed. Which i think is the primary responsibility of a manager. Plus, I think how he has incorporated some NL style managing into the sox the last few years has been impressive.

]]> By: crundy http://37feetup.com/2008/05/20/dear-theo-thank-you-for-not-trading-jon-lester/#comment-115 crundy Tue, 20 May 2008 19:22:25 +0000 http://37feetup.com/2008/05/20/dear-theo-thank-you-for-not-trading-jon-lester/#comment-115 Agreed on all counts. Another interesting angle to the no-hitter is that 'tek has no caught more no-hitters than anyone in mlb history-four-and all four were with different pitchers. Even more impressive, two of them were with young pitchers who were no doubt leaning more on his expertise (Lester and Bucholtz) and one of them was (I think) his first regular season game catching Nomo. The fourth I'd say he had very little to do with b/c Lowe is a sinker baller who when he is on gets ground ball after ground ball...Not as much of a mystery as to what he is going to pitch in any given count as the rest... The other moments I'll remember about the post game~ 1. The moment between Lester and Francona-embrace on the field while Francona said something very personal and very moving to Lester. You could see in Lester's eyes as they pulled away that whatever Francona said really hit home for Lester. Fancona was obviously proud of Lester and Lester was obviously very happy to make him proud. It was amazing - it changed my perception of Francona from a good coach/bad game manager into - an amazing coach who cares more about his players lives than how they perform, but derives tremendous joy when they are able to put it all together. 2. 1 minute later a NESN reporter asking Lester what Francona said to him when they embraced. I felt like reaching through the set and telling her to think really hard next time before she tries to ruin the moment for someone who has worked so hard to gain this experience. 3. Post-game press conference Lester is asked how it feels coming back from last season all the way to this point...His answer, "Gee, I thought I pitched pretty well last year". So awesome...so the reporter is forced to say, "Ummm... i meant coming back from the ummm.....illness". No der dip shit. Lester knew it but in a very mature way he made it clear he is not cancer-boy. He's a young pitcher with a lot of potential and he should be treated that way. Hell, he won game 4 of the world series last year and pitched a no hitter this year! Schilling hasn't done that! Clemens hasn't done that either! Ditto Pedro! 4. The Eck in the studio couldn't contain how happy he was for the kid. He was a babbling fool and it was the most real reaction i sawthat night. Eck should be in the box with Rem and the other guy. It would give a second excellent perspective to riff off rem and it would probably kill the overdone rem and the other guy giggle fest. Agreed on all counts. Another interesting angle to the no-hitter is that ‘tek has no caught more no-hitters than anyone in mlb history-four-and all four were with different pitchers.

Even more impressive, two of them were with young pitchers who were no doubt leaning more on his expertise (Lester and Bucholtz) and one of them was (I think) his first regular season game catching Nomo. The fourth I’d say he had very little to do with b/c Lowe is a sinker baller who when he is on gets ground ball after ground ball…Not as much of a mystery as to what he is going to pitch in any given count as the rest…

The other moments I’ll remember about the post game~

1. The moment between Lester and Francona-embrace on the field while Francona said something very personal and very moving to Lester. You could see in Lester’s eyes as they pulled away that whatever Francona said really hit home for Lester. Fancona was obviously proud of Lester and Lester was obviously very happy to make him proud.

It was amazing - it changed my perception of Francona from a good coach/bad game manager into - an amazing coach who cares more about his players lives than how they perform, but derives tremendous joy when they are able to put it all together.

2. 1 minute later a NESN reporter asking Lester what Francona said to him when they embraced. I felt like reaching through the set and telling her to think really hard next time before she tries to ruin the moment for someone who has worked so hard to gain this experience.

3. Post-game press conference Lester is asked how it feels coming back from last season all the way to this point…His answer, “Gee, I thought I pitched pretty well last year”. So awesome…so the reporter is forced to say, “Ummm… i meant coming back from the ummm…..illness”. No der dip shit. Lester knew it but in a very mature way he made it clear he is not cancer-boy. He’s a young pitcher with a lot of potential and he should be treated that way. Hell, he won game 4 of the world series last year and pitched a no hitter this year! Schilling hasn’t done that! Clemens hasn’t done that either! Ditto Pedro!

4. The Eck in the studio couldn’t contain how happy he was for the kid. He was a babbling fool and it was the most real reaction i sawthat night. Eck should be in the box with Rem and the other guy. It would give a second excellent perspective to riff off rem and it would probably kill the overdone rem and the other guy giggle fest.

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