COMMENTARY
I hope you’ll excuse my Terry Francona on the brain today. “Tito: The Terry Francona Story” has gotten a couple extra watches at this address, his Guardians headed to Fenway Park this weekend for their annual visit.
“I was too dumb, too stupid to die,” Francona says in the documentary, with Curt Schilling — remember him? — noting the baseball lifer’s litany of health problems included receiving last rites in the early 2000s.
Debated turning this into a top-quotes listing, prominently including the above. The jibes with former Sox utility man and current Rays manager Kevin Cash — complete with a 2018 clip of when he stole Francona’s scooter so his team could ding it up in batting practice.