I want to win more than anybody. And when you try to go out there and try to create something and make something happen, for me as a player, when you try to get a hit, you dont get a hit, you dont let the game come to you and let your talents come out. So I think at times weve done that. I think thats the biggest thing.
You have to win here. You dont want to let anybody down. And I feel like I have. I feel like the team has. We feel that way, too. So we want to make sure we win and make this a special place. Its tough. When you want to do something so bad and you worked real hard for a goal and youre not playing well and its not going youre way, its frustrating. Because we put in a lot of hard work. And just little things that go wrong during a game, or something like that, thats the stuff that gets to you.
But you got to try to put it behind you and go out and work even harder and try to find a way to make your team better. The season has been an on-going series of stories that have come to light putting the team and certain players in a negative light. Yeah, its tough, its tough, Pedroia said. Were all family, man. Thats the way we view our team. And when things are said about one certain guy or another guy, it doesnt just affect that person.
The thing Tuesday night a pregame ceremony in which the entire team lined up wearing Pesky's No. We never contemplated making it mandatory. The small number of players in attendance provoked a good deal of outrage in the media, most notably on talk radio, which was addressed by Valentine in his pregame session. One Sox employee said he skipped the organizational photo taken Thursday because of his anger with the players, while two other team employees said they were disappointed by the turnout.
The buses were not for the players; they were for other team employees, and were almost completely full. The fact that over people from the Red Sox organization -- players, manager, owners, front-office people, staff -- came was a show of real respect and affection.
Adrian Gonzalez said he did not attend because he and his wife, Betsy, had a previous commitment to buy school supplies for underprivileged children.
Dustin Pedroia 's wife, Kelli, is nine months pregnant and confined to bed rest. Obviously, everyone knows how we feel about Johnny. We love him and we're all here for his family. What so many members of the Boston Red Sox don't seem to understand is how powerful perception can be. How fans and media perceive certain actions matter. When Josh Beckett misses a start because of a strained lat muscle but then goes out and plays golf, it looks bad. People have no idea what exactly Beckett was doing on the golf course and whether or not he risked aggravating that injury.
But the perception is that if he can play golf, he can probably pitch for the team paying him a lot of money to do so. When last year's fried-chicken-and-beer follies created a portrait of a team that just didn't care about their collapsing season, it looks bad when John Lackey struts around the clubhouse with a Bud Light in each hand after a tough loss.
When only four players from the Red Sox show up for the funeral of a legendary and beloved figure in team history and the surrounding community, it creates the perception that the current set of players wearing the Red Sox uniform simply don't care about something that matters deeply to the team and its fanbase. Expecting them to be on buses leaving for the funeral at 11 a. Yet the Red Sox also didn't have a game on Monday and most everyone on the team attended Beckett's charity bowling event later in the evening.
Lucchino also defended Red Sox players by mentioning that they participated in a pregame, on-field ceremony for Pesky the following night at Fenway Park.
But how much credit do the players deserve for showing up to that event? Why, you ask? Most of the team felt like Josh Beckett's annual " Beckett Bowl " bowling party and country music show at Lucky Strike and the House of Blues were more important.
Even Nomar Garciaparra made time to fly out from California to make the procession.
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