Gee whiz, gang, I was joking with the Schilling thing. In response to the question, "Who would you replace Tito with?", I tried to think of the most ridiculous, laughable scenario, and that's the first thing to come to mind.

Let's not use the word "smart" when it comes to Red Sox hiring managers. They only hired Francona because Schilling had that on his List of Demands when he signed. Do you guys remember the list of inept boobs who used to manage this team before Francona? The most recent one, in his last game, had one of the owners on his feet upstairs in the box screaming, "Are we allowed to fire the manager DURING the game???"**

** = See Feeding the Monster, flip to Game 7 2003 ALCS.

Neither should go.

Sad day if Tito is going today.

So if Maddon is bad, who is good?

keep ****ing that chicken guys

WEEI was saying Larussa. I'd be really happy if we got him, but not sure how likely that is.

LOLarussa

Can we get Showalter if Francona goes? f you can't beat him, hire him!

****ing ****

please god not LaRussa

Wait that's a joke, right? There's no way theo hires LaRussa. My roommate and I already both agreed we'd root against the sox if they brought Larussa in. If you hated the media's coverage of the sox, just imagine the slurp derrp that would occur if Larussa came aboard.

lfs,
lolwalter is getting the Os GM job.

what about

bobby cox

it sounds that francona wanted out and henry wanted him out, but i dont think henry realizes what he had with tito as the manager

what about a pretty smart manager, relatively young, has a couple rings

Terry Francona!

this is going to make the clubhouse worse imo, how is pedey and the other guys gonna react. Theres stories out there that pedey and tito are like father son.

From the reports coming out, I don't know why we all are huge red sox fans they seem like complete douches to me. Reports states pitchers were drinking beers during the games, players would complain about transportation to the stadium(btw i saw the buses that brought them to new york by far the best bus i have ever seen in my life) and lastly younger players were jealous over the older players that made alot of money. Only thing i can think of is jacoby and crawford didn't like each other to well.

Nate Silver:

So basically the Red Sox were 278 million to 1 dogs to be eliminated from the playoffs three times in one season. Brilliant analysis.

Man, this sucks. Next year is gonna be rough.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...News&hpt=hp_t2

Well don't worry Francona's not fired or quitting. He and the Red Sox are just "parting ways". It's mutual. Really.

I would like to see dave martinez the dude with the beard on joe maddons bench.

yeah that's pretty bad. the collapse was historic enough on its own, no need to use gorilla math.

I will always love Bobby V simply because of the mustache stunt, but he seems like a terrible fit.

Wish Tek was ready, but he certainly isn't.

Who else?

Ugh, this is ridiculous.

on espn they are saying "according to sources" that francona told his staff hes done.

Pokey Reese!