Handing out MLB's early awards: Best and worst of whacky opening month
MLB season is still young but the sample sizes are still getting smaller. Who's been the biggest surprises?
It’s the Year of the Rookie, the Year of the Underdog, and the Year of the Underperforming. Who could have envisioned that Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora and Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson would be unemployed before May? Who could have imagined, in their wildest dreams, that that the Colorado Rockies would have a better record than the Mets, Phillies and San Francisco Giants ?
How in the world of economics can four of the top six highest-paid teams have losing records: the Mets, Phillies, Blue Jays and Red Sox? It’s been a strange but certainly entertaining start to the season, so why not hand out awards to some of the best, worst and funkiest events of April. BEST REACTION TO A FIRING Former Boston Red Sox starter Josh Beckett Beckett, upon hearing that Alex Cora was fired as Red Sox manager while retaining GM Craig Breslow, sent a text message to Boston reporter Rob Bradford.
“It’s like (expletive) your pants and changing your shirt. ” A few days later, there was a plane hovering above Fenway with a banner that read: “Fire Craig! Sell the team!
” No idea whether Beckett was the pilot. BEST SPEECH AFTER A BLOWN SAVE New York Mets reliever Luke Weaver “This pursuit of perfection is just an ultimate pressurized failure mindset. I just think it becomes everybody wants to be the hero because we care and we want to win really, really bad.
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