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標題: 席林: Red Sox are growing tired of Valentine
時間: Thu Mar 29 08:40:13 2012

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Bobby Valentine just can't win.

The polarizing Red Sox manager reportedly has a growing rift with general
manager Ben Cherington, and now he's believed to be falling out of favor with
his players.

Speaking on WEEI earlier this week, former pitcher Curt Schilling said that
several players have complained to him about Valentine's behavior.

"I thought that the manager that managed the Mets that I was not a big fan of
was now going to be a different manager, and I don't think there's anything
different at all," Schilling said. "And I don't think that that is going to
be conducive to doing well here. There's a lot of things I think that are
happening not just from his perspective, but when you talk to these guys --
and I'm still talking to some of these guys -- I don't think this is going
well. And I think it's going bad quicker than I expected it to."

Schilling said that for all of Valentine's wisdom, he isn't very good at
managing people, which was one of Terry Francona's strengths.

"One of (Francona's) strengths I think was understanding that to be a great
big league manager, you don't have to know when to hit and run, bunt and
change pitchers as much as you need to manage people," Schilling said. "I
think the major league manager has so little to do with wins and losses, more
so in baseball than just about in any sport."

He also said that the players don't like how much attention Valentine has
brought to the clubhouse.

"The point I made the other night was that he's doing a lot of things right
now that are forcing his players to extend their media involvement to answer
questions about him and the situation when it's already a challenge enough to
do it, to play in this market and to win," he said.

"Any time you introduce the wild card -- the guy who's going to flip over the
spread or throw something against the wall or act and react in an
unpredictable way -- it's not a positive thing."

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