On Friday, when John Henry, Chaim Bloom, Alex Cora and Sam Kennedy faced the music at Winter Weekend, they were heckled and booed by angry, cash-paying fans. The team’s brass finally, belatedly reaped the mistrust that it’s sown for years.
With the exception of Cora, who was plainly the odd man out, the team’s brass reliably wants to have it both ways: they want to be prudent in the long run and ambitious in the short term. “We could keep going, we could drive right off that cliff, you guys have seen big-market teams do it before and end up rebuilding for half a decade,” Bloom told the angry crowd.