The Red Sox simply lack color. Now in this world today when you toss out color it is usually connected to skin tones, but this is baseball color as in colorful personalities. The Red Sox have had plenty in their collective history, but to be colorful is one thing; having the talent to go with it is another.
Bill Lee and Oil Can Boyd were both quite colorful. Both would give quotes that often exceeded the outrageous. Both were high-end competitors and both were capable of antics that did not make print until decades later.