Red Sox Owners Make FANS ANGRY...AGAIN!! 

Ownership is a joke as usual. But they are pissing in the faces of players who are playing their hearts out with a dollar store pay roll

sam kennedy saying they’re underperforming is the pot calling the kettle black

When I look at individual players rather than the team. Wilyer Abreu looks very solid as a ROOKIE, Rafaela just has his first multi HR game, Wong, Grissom, Duran definitely doing the job, Andrew Bailey have revolutionized this pitching staff, I really think we just have to be more consistent, but that will come with time.

There’s literally ZERO accountability from the front office.

Kennedy NEEDS to stay away from a mic and let someone like Theo take over because he is completely tone def to the fans.

The only part of this team that underperformed is the ownership.

i see this as their way of putting it out there so if they fire cora or dont resign him they can blame him like they did franconia or bloom

They need to sell the team and fire the whole front office.

The Red Sox are like my golf game right now. Sometimes I can putt, sometimes I can chip and sometimes I can drive straight down the fairway but cannot seem to do it all at the same time.

One of your best videos yet, Corbin. The artlessness of the ownership group’s messaging has made bad situations worse for a while now.

To me, the problem is an overall lack of vision. The comments & blame from the FO obfuscate what’s really happening. The FO lacks leadership. I don’t want to b told we’re a playoff contender. I want to be told how we’re gonna get there. I want to see competitive ball even if we don’t always win. What’s the plan? Is it to limp along while our young players get more experience for a 2025 breakout? The FO needs to figure something out so we can quit guessing. The fans deserve better.

Q:Sam, has management underperformed so far this year?

Sam is a total company man who knows if he points in any way at the owners he'll be out the door......end of story.

Fans saying Henry needs to sell the team is a waste of breath. Henry is not selling a cash cow, so just dismiss this insane take. It seems very apparent this ownership is staying status quo until their youth arrive in 2-3 years. Sam Kennedy is a very poor frontman spokesman for the Boston Red Sox, every time he speaks he demonstrates how detached he is from reality and continues to piss off the fan base.

Management in general never says their wrong anywhere I have been.

An example is Tyler O'Neill. They sign an often injured player and surprise, surprise he is out injured. To then say the team needs to step up to plug that hole but if they don't or can't they are under performing. That's not fair and disingenuous. Is it really fiscally advantageous to sign someone with a high risk of injury and then have to sign more players to fill that hole? I wouldn't think so.

I don't see what the RS fans would get mad at here. The Henry gang will never accept their responsibility for their cringeworthy actions. I heard that the RS fans were 27 out of 30 MLB most teams excited about the start of the RS season. Jordan Montgomery didn't even seriously consider signing with the RS.

Sam Kennedy is a joke at this point what did he think was gonna happen when we didn’t sign anyone he just pisses me off because he’s acting surprised about how we suck

This is why i won't go to any games or wear any memorabilia. There is ZERO reason that this team shouldn't be competiting for a world series every year. They ruined their own product by being cheap and trading Betts and destroying their previous championship team and doing barely anything to rebuild like a winning organization. Look at the Yankees and dodgers. Yes they built internally but they SPENT like winners because they have the resources just like the Red Sox. I still root for the players and Cora but this is disgusting

That is absolutely incredible. 😮 Red Sox Ownership definitely did not do enough to put the best possible team out there, and they seem to think that it is the players and managers fault completely? Shame on ownership. The team is trying the best they can with what they have.

Ownership is horrible at messaging, starts from the top 💩

they should sell the team if they dont care about the team

That is really bad from the ownership and not good for the team in general.

Couldn't said this any better. As a fan for over 65 years, there are few managers who would have the team ownership put on the field and considering the injuries still in wild card race. Cora will be blamed and fired. But, you can be rest assured he will be hired within a week.

This interview excerpt tells me Kennedy and the rest of the front office believed this team would be a competitive team, regardless of what front line metrics indicated in the beginning of the season.

Like my mom would tell me as a kid. He doth protest too much and it's shows the real culprits that are to blame. It's the owner group. What utter stupidity to blame the players!!

Sometimes management (not just Red Sox) seems to have no clue how what they do affects morale downstream.

Liverpool is offering players 70 million a year contracts . Yeah im angry at the red sox

Gotta wonder if Sam ever chats with buddy Theo before or after these statements. He might wanna....

Well said Corbin!!! I for one am very pleased with the development of most of our young players. Valdez seems to be sending me a signal too. He's defended better this year and that bat of his is showing signs of further advancement. With another injury to Grissom today I think Valdez might very well get more time in. I try not to pay too much attention to Kennedy/Henry etc. Not completely happy with them. " They who often run off at the mouth often run amok". Seems to me they should have done more than what they have. As usual good content from you young Corbin !!! Joe

Just like that Grissom is hurt and Wong is playing 2nd. Sox need to make a move and figure out 2nd and SS. This is beyond ridiculous now.

Exactly. Sox have overperformed. sam kennedy and ownership have underperformed!!!!!

Where is Theo?

I didn't view the "under-performing" comment as being anything against the players. We have one of the top pitching staffs, both rotation and bullpen, and a top-10 offense. This usually produces a record much better than .500. The record doesn't reflect the stats. That's where the "under-performing" is. Personally, I see huge potential in the talent on this roster and would not be surprised if the record improves really soon.

Corbin, I don't disagree and I feel your pain. However, we are living in times when no one takes responsibilities for bad or even a lack of good actions. We both knew in the offseason, that the front office was abandoning 2024 for 2025. A bridge year for guys like Mayer, Teel and Anthony. Playing .500 is still an improvement over last year. The injury bug to core players has cost the front office a ton of money in recent years. This year it was Story, Grissom, Yoshida, Whitlock and Casas. On the positive side, the pitching has been better than expected, though they'll need some good luck maintaining that for the rest of the season. Young guys like Duran, Houck, Abreu and Hamilton have stepped up and with more young players on the way, The acquisitions of Hendricks, Giolito, Grissom and Michael Fulmer were not the best plans/ideas for 2024, they could've done much more in the front office, but maybe they will still help next year. Maybe they could've restructured the contract of Ohtani like L.A. did, though at the cost of bleeding when his career ends or even Mookie etc. I'd have gone all out for Yamamoto, too. It is what it is. I shelled out big bucks to watch the Sox (here in Florida) and their affiliates on MLB/MiLB this season and I don't regret it. I've been a life-long fan since 1967, through the ups and downs. My father was a life-long fan before that and had to see Johnny Pesky let the World Series escape his grasp (held the ball) in 1946, when Slaughter scored from first on a damned single and Ted Williams batted .200, due to playing through an injury. I've seen several championships and two near-misses (1967/1986). I consider myself lucky. LOL Hang in there. I wanted to write a book about the Boston Red Sox, but between 1919-1966, they were doormats and an embarrassment to baseball. They didn't win The Impossible Dream season in 1967, but they've been competitive ever since. TB and Baltimore doesn't have big stars, but they figured out how to be winners.

I don't blame anybody. They are learning to play together and at some point the baseball gods will shine on this team.

Kennedy needs to go. How can you blame the players for this year. They are trying and playing there hearts out. Terrible to throw your players underthe bus and say their not living up to expectations. What about his? Has he ever played pro ball has he ever been a rookie? To put his players through this is horrible.

i understand why we dumped sale, and even though sale is doing well, you can't fault the sox for that. what you can fault them for is that they jumped at the offer for anyone, and grissom is what they got. an often injured player who bats less than 200. i love jackie bradley jr in the field, but why did managment trade a high 30 home run guy like renfrow back for him? this management team boggles my mind. we didn't re-sign kyle schwarber, eovaldi, adam duvall, or any of the players that showed their worth. we chose to use our farm system players, and sign other less than average guys. this is what we get. a .500 team to the all star break that will implode at some point, and then we will sell for more prospects.

Valdez just his second HR today. That's not all of the story though. It's the location the pitchers were in. That's where his hole was when they sent him down. Inside 1/3 of the zone ...before today he had 127 pitches in this zone without making solid contact or getting a hit this year. ( He had 1 hit on a pitch inside and out of the zone ..an infield dribbler) . Watch his new strategy..he fixed it

Agree and am upset by this. Just doesn't seem to get it on air sometimes. I am watching the young players, checking box scores and highlights, looking at stats, and seeing how they stack up relative to other teams. Not watching any games. Definitely not going to Fenway. If they are ever going to get the message, fans should stop watching and stop giving them their hard-earned money. Terrible ratings and revenue might get their attention.

It’s no mystery the pitching is why they have been able to stay hovering at the competitive wild card level (.500) .again losing the 3-4-5 any team is going to struggle scoring runs. Win now teams make trades to fill the gap ..developmental payroll cautious teams try to scrape the cast offs from other teams to find some magic lightning in the bottle. Pretty easy to see which one of the aforementioned the Red Sox are in 2024.

frankly i have no idea who they have been watching but its obviously not the red sox. i was one of those who said we did not have a chance. i even said that we brought a shovel to see if we could get lower than last place. i am loving that so far we are still in 3rd and trying hard. the ownership on the other hand should go back to kindergarten to learn the difference between good and bad and how you can make a bag of candy better by buying some more and better ones

Ok some people out there expected THIS ownership to take responsibility for the fiasco that has taken place in each of the last 3 off seasons?? I sure hope not,, because they haven't not even once! They never will! They've proven that time after time. At the end of the day Many of the current roster has played their asses off and unfortunately BECAUSE ownership did not provide this team with the depth it needs this team will Likely end up out of the playoffs and likely with about 80 wins.

id take it as a compliment that they believe this current roster can or should be better because they are proving to be very young but talentted. Probably should trad Jansen, Martin and O'Neil before the deadline for more young talent and keep building for the future.

I just laughed and thought what an idiot.

Well, his comment just reflects how ownership continues to seem disengaged with both the fans AND reality. Underperformed? So, is that supposed to purport that without injuries they'd be totally contending? Really? Your rewrite sounds about right. Well, perhaps it wasn't malicious, but it IS consistent with how ownership has acted since the day they fired Dombo. Oh, they DO want to contend... with a mid-level payroll. That's it, exactly, and they'll burn through GMs like fire tinder to do it. They've basically told everyone, from Breslow on down, "You guys better get with the program." And do we think Cora's recently-noted surliness isn't tied to this? I'm guessing he's being given the same message in private too. Did you notice Kennedy even took a subtle dig at the medical staff?

It shouldn't come as a surprise that ownership is tone deaf to the fan base. The main reason the team is underperforming is because ownership is cheap and they aren't willing to pay for a competitive team. It's interesting that even on the weekends they are not selling out I'm actually ok with that but unfortunately ownership is too tone deaf to get the message. I'm not holding my breath but maybe they will eventually want to pay for top players there's no easy answers it's been my view that ownership has been the biggest problem over the past few seasons !

For one Sam Kennedy is a YES man with no baseball experience there to rubber stamp ownerships decisions. Ownership will look to put blame on everyone else but themselves. Since 2019 when they made a conscience effort to stop spending $ so as to make JH trophy wife happy They fired DD because he was only interested in winning They hire Bloom once fans started to revolt with 2 last place finishes and 3/4 in last place they fire Bloom - they go about hiring another GM who was in over his head and will not push back because he’s just happy to have the GM job and now at end of year when they don’t make playoffs again they will not resign Cora. This has all to do with ownership not spending and a GM who is in over his head and will not push back. They needed to sign 1-2 starters they didn’t They needed a RH bat and did not act. The promising start was NOT a core of promising rookies but rather a weak schedule all it takes is a closer look at Rec Sox record vs teams with a > 500 record. They are what we thought they were a last place team

Corbin, the test for ownership will come at the trade deadline whether they will invest in this team or not. This may factor into what Cora may do at the end of the year and at the end of his contract. Sadly, I believe he is gone. I do NOT have much hope for ownership.

You're right! He should've said they understand given the injuries this team has suffered. But then maybe he shouldn't have said anything at all!

They had so many breakout performances this year. If they had a few more players it could have been a great year. Noone is catching the yankees or Orioles but they could have earned a wildcard spot.

Relax , Sox Fans.Trevor, Gio, Grissom, Casas, have left a hole in the lineup that will last most of the season. Duran. Cedanne, Abreu, Refsnyder, Wong, et. al. offer hope, but they are young and inexperienced. Mookie & Xander - gone with the wind. Any success we get this year will be miraculous. Get used to it. Sam Kennedy is urged to get out of town on a midnight bus to nowhere. His official mouthpiece act is wearing thin.....

Hey Sam start by looking in the mirror. Haven't watched an inning this year, actually in the last 3 years and won't until ownership shows the same commitment to the fans as they expect the fans to show to them

And they have 2 wins over the rangers

What makes me mad is we got fleeced on the braves trade. Look at sales numbers. We traded him for a player that does not look mlb ready at all. Whatever

Sam ... How can you pass any blame on our injured players ??? ... Sam ... When they do eventually return, should Giolitto, Story, Casas, Yoshida, Whitlock, O'Neill etc. no longer play at their max and go all out in order to best avoid anymore future injuries ??? ... Sam ... Are you losing your sanity and baseball perspective by foolishly commenting that this team has under performed ??? ... Sam ... By ignorantly voicing that this team has not played up to expectations, don't you think that this also very unfairly "points the dirty end of the stick" at Alex Cora which most likely will give him more reason not to re-sign and remain as Red Sox manager in 2025 and beyond ??? ... Sam ... Why doesn't Theo handle media relations for you and Red Sox ownership ??? ... Sam ... Don't you think you now need to finally quit playing company politics by publicly taking some responsibility that you and ownership need to "step up" and be more financially supportive in putting a more competitive team on the field ??? ...

Sam said it perfectly. Can’t think of a thing Sox could have done in offseason that would have improved team. Neither Japanese player was ever coming to Boston. If Casas was in lineup Sox would have had 5 more wins this season.

Nice yoga bobble head

Sell the damn team

Sorry......But....WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤑🤑

Underperforming???? Are you kidding me???? Given our injuries I would say we are holding our own with a young roster. Kennedy needs to stay silent. The front office totally underperformed, not the players. I give kudos to Breslow in the job he has done just to keep us competitive.

This is not an overreaction on your part. The most charitable interpretation of Sam Kennedy’s latest example of foot in mouth is that he is completely tone deaf. I am not nearly so charitable. He has played the I grew up in the shadow of Fenway Park and am a lifelong fan card. It rings hollow. Sam Kennedy is a corporate shill. He diverts blame anywhere and everywhere except where it belongs, namely ownerships deliberate and utter failure to invest in this team and hamstringing their front office. For his effort he receives a promotion. The additional wild card spot has been terrible for baseball. Now all these teams think they can play around 0.500 baseball and get hot at the right time to make a playoff run. There are about 8 really good teams and 6 really bad teams in MLB and the remaining 16 are in the mediocre middle vying for the 3rd wild card spot in their respective league. The Red Sox should aspire to be consistently in that top tier where it is not a question of if they will be in the playoffs, but how far they will go into October.

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If we could just have an elected committee to put our wishes to the ownership...and let them know what they are doing wrong

That is a shot at Cora! They fired the wrong guy! Blooms players are why the team is at 500.

They have under preformed which is on the players and manager

Screw. Kennedy. Sell. The. Team. To. Elon. Musk. He's. More. Useful. That. Way. Yes. Man😢

They have under performed, you don't want to tell your team they are over performing really that is saying you are not really this good. Saying you are underperforming show confidence in their abilities and encourages improvements.

Lets send them an email or mail, you know the address Corbin?

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