Terry Francona was in Ft. Myers to cover a Red Sox game for ESPN. ?And yes, the topic of his unceremonious departure from Boston and the subsequent crap anonymous Red Sox front office people shoveled on to him came up.
Francona tells the Boston Herald that, as far as all that goes, he is moving on, but no, he?s not over it. He said that ?it?s a little awkward for me,? being around the Sox. And he talked about a recent phone call he had with Sox owner John Henry:
?It was probably five months too late. We talked. It doesn?t matter anymore. That?s what I kind of told him. I said, ?We should have had this conversation a long time ago because anything you say now doesn?t matter.? But he was good ? I?m not quite ready for the hugs yet. I?m still trying to stop the bleeding ??When I left, I thought I would just leave. ?What happened after that hurt me a lot. It probably always will ??That hurt me a little bit.?
I probably wouldn?t have fired Francona if I ran the Sox, but Henry had the right to if he wanted to, especially given the collapse. ?What didn?t have to happen, however, was for people in the organization to throw their most successful manager ever under the bus like they did, so Francona?s feelings are totally understandable.
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