The owners don't pick the players. They have spent money, loads of it. So any criticism of them not spending money, or "they're only trying to make money to sell us for profit" is nonsense. As has been said many times on this forum by the more perceptive posters, these billionaires made their money in easier ways before, and they could simply do it that way again. Why subject themselves to the criticism of the press and yahoos like us everyday?
Henry's feeling the heat at home at the moment. As far as LFC are concerned, FSG and the structure they have set up, manpower included has
pissed away spent the money, no doubt.
"They're only trying to make money to sell us for profit". Well, he's done it before when he bought and sold his stake in the Yankees, then bought and sold the baseball team Florida Marlins and also a senior baseball league(a year before it went bust). So why is that so far fetched? He's doing it for the love of the club then?
"these billionaires made their money in easier ways before". His businesses haven't done that well lately (I believe he closed his business in 2012). So it's obviously not as simple as that. Isn't his latest investment purchasing the newspaper Boston Globe? Good luck with that.
"Since the start of the 2014 season, only the Rockies, Diamondbacks, and Phillies have lower winning percentages than the Red Sox, who are 94-120 after Tuesday’s 1-0 win over the Minnesota Twins, 23-29 this season." Good thing they don't have relegation in baseball because they'd be relegation zone material. A very expensive one at that.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle between the "yahoos" with the knives out and the Henry/FSG apologists.
This article from yesterday's Boston Herald: "But while the Sox were wildly successful at exploiting market inefficiencies and defining a winning philosophy during the first decade of Henry’s tenure,
ownership and the front office have come off like blind men feeling around for answers in the past three or four years."
Ouch. Thank Robbie it doesn't sound familiar.