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Thursday, June 07, 2001

Should the Red Sox fire Jimy Williams?

Red Sox fans always seem to have one hand on the panic button, the other on a mallet to pound on that hand and make sure the button is getting pressed hard enough. Fire a manager in first place, while one of your three superstars has been on the DL all year? That's been a popular sentiment among Sox fans, who can't understand some of Williams' maneuverings. Williams' latest sin is limiting Pedro Martinez to 90 pitches on Monday night against the Yankees, a game which the bullpen ultimately blew. But given Pedro's track record for midseason breakdowns, the move was at least somewhat defensible in my mind. But hey, I'm rooting against them...
--posted by Jay at 11:45 AM LINK

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