Interlude

I'm really starting to enjoy the Clubhouse Insider, which is basically the Boston Herald's baseball blog, largely on the stregth of Howard Bryant's posts. I think Bryant is one of New England's sharpest sportswriters,and while his newspaper column is hidden behind the Herald's online subscription wall, he posts fairly often to the Insider. From today we have:

The Fix Was In

There is nothing more humiliating than to interview for a job you have no chance of getting, yet this is baseball’s way of suggesting progress and openness in hiring. What a joke.

The Second Season

I ask Ortiz if he thinks Guillen’s frolicking would play if he were the manager of the Red Sox. His mouth transforms from wide smile to serious flatline. “No, I don’t think he could do that in Boston.”