The Strange Second Century

Charles Pierce looks at the weekend which started the second century at Fenway, and focuses on my favorite part of the train wreck of April 2012 in Boston:

Bobby Valentine — who, as my buddy Tom Keegan once wrote, had he known it was going to turn out like this, never would have invented baseball — got booed from hell to breakfast every time he changed pitchers, which was pretty damn often in the last three innings. He was also greeted with "We want Tito," which, if things don't turn around very, very soon, is going to become a Fenway tradition to rival parking-lot extortion, "Sweet Caroline," and "Yankees suck." I also suspect that mouthing "Wow!" on live TV in response to your team's having fallen behind is not going to endear you to the home folks.
(Oh, and by the way, and I know it's for the kids and all, and that it costs half-a-LeBron to go to the games here now, so you're entitled to whatever entertainment you can find, but having an entire ballpark chant "So good! So good! So good!" immediately after the home team has given up 15 unanswered runs makes the fan base sound a little simple.)
"I think we've hit bottom," Valentine said after the game. "If this isn't the bottom, then we're going to have to find some new ends of the earth or something."
I have no idea what that means, either, but the man looked like he'd just been repeatedly struck by lightning, so we should cut him some slack.

I am so glad that Bobby is no longer broadcasting Sunday Night Baseball, and I'm enjoying seeing the early season turmoil of him in Boston.  Unfortunately, if things keep going the way they have been, he may be back on Sunday nights.  I mean, blowing a nine run lead, really?