Someone emailed me a link to an article by Kevin Kernan of the New York Post. I remember seeing this a couple of weeks ago but quickly realized it wasn’t Mets related so I passed it up.
I did read it this morning and I was glad I did. I was so impressed by comments made by Red Sox owner Larry Luchino. Or maybe I was just envious.
“We’re in it to win championships,’’ Lucchino said Wednesday at JetBlue Park. “We’re not in it to be consistently second or consistently third. We want to win championships.”
Tom Werner, another of the Boston owners, added:
“We have a strong commitment to winning. We play for championships. We were all smarting over the [last-place] finish we had last year.”
“It’s our intention to play baseball in October every year. We know that we made some mistakes last year and those mistakes were compounded by injury.”
“We’re in it to win championships.”
Can you ever imagine Fred Wilpon, his son Jeff, or Saul Katz saying anything like that?
It’s so profound, so inspiring, so refreshing to hear an owner speak like that.
And you can tell by their actions, whether you agree with the moves or not, that they say what they mean and mean what they say. Nothing like the hollow mutterings we so often get from our owners.
To be honest, I usually dread having to hear anything Fred and Jeff have to say. And as for Saul, he’s the invisible man who gets his 50 percent cut of all the profits and ducks any camera or microphone in sight.
You want swagger? There it is right there in Bean Town. Swagger begins at the top.
