That Dave Dombrowski was sitting alone at the table to discuss the John Farrell firing was no accident.
He was, after all, brought in by Red Sox ownership to be president of baseball operations. What John Henry and Tom Werner were saying by their absence, then, was this was Dombrowski’s decision to make.
And it was a decision he alone needed to explain — even if High Horse Dave wasted an opportunity to share with loyal Red Sox fans his reasons for making the change. (If nothing else, a little candor would have allowed New Englanders a chance to get to know him a little better.