Would the Sox Really Be that Dumb?
Posted on September 30th, 2011 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Terry Francona’s a great manager. He managed the pants off the over-rated Joe Torre in 2004, and he’s done a terrific job with the team throughout his Sox tenure.
So would Sox management really fire him, just because of one wonderfully historic, record-setting collapse?
And the really great part about this? It would complete the transformation of the Sox—evidenced so far in things like massive overpaying for terrible free agents, team underperformance, soaring ticket prices, John Henry building a hideous McMansion—into the George Steinbrenner Yankees of the 1980s….
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10/1/2024 8:28 am
Brittany Smith, the former Harvard College student whose boyfriend Jabrai Jordan and his friends planned and executed a murder in Kirkland House was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday.
Absent at Harvard has been any discussion of the University’s responsibility for this murder. How was Mr. Jordan able to live for months at Kirkland house, and apparently running a drug operation there? Where were Masters Tom and Verena Conley, or Dean Cory Way while he was lodging at their house? Where was Ms. Smith academic advisor while her student had decided to become an accessory to crime? How come a student who had spent four years at Harvard College, agreed to support this kind of criminal activity out of her dorm? These questions need to be answered so that this dark chapter in Harvard’s history can be closed. Hopefully some of the faculty who understand what academic stewardship means will soon raise them.