#Beat learning on the job quotes series#

Schooling is often an important step in our lives but the real education that makes us successful in life takes place outside the controlled environment of a classroom. They were not “really good.” They were not a “pretty good team.” They were not “the best worst team in baseball.We all learn in different ways and an essential part of the process of learning is gaining an understanding of ourselves and how we learn most effectively. The sorry Sox need to stop selling 2022 as some kind of mirage.

Like being the world’s tallest short person? On Monday, Cora admitted, “It wasn’t a great season … It was a horrible season,” but on the final day, he came back with, “We were like the best worst team in baseball.” Meanwhile, the young chief baseball officer assured fans that the Sox are still “a pretty good team” even though they finished last. J.D.’s contention that the Sox were “relaxed” after they were eliminated was galling, as was the subsequent weekend in Toronto: 9-0, 10-0, and 6-3 losses. Cora was still reminding us that his team is “really good” when the Sox were in last place. I think that’s what happened this year.”Ĭurious. “You can be a pretty good team in our division and still finish last. 29, after the mathematically eliminated Sox had won three straight against the Orioles “I feel like we’re honestly playing more relaxed.”

Cora after a 17-4 win over the Orioles Sept. “This is a friendly reminder that we’re really good.” September served as a 2023 tryout showcase and a long goodbye for noble fan favorites such as Bogaerts and Dennis Eckersley.Īnd yet … there were still head-scratching remarks of justification and delusion. Pie-in-the-sky talk of “wild card contention” eroded daily, and it became clear that this was a lost season. The Red Sox went into free-fall after Bloom’s mixed messages at the trading deadline.

“I am very comfortable saying Chaim and Alex will be back.” “I understand why people could look at what we did and scratch their heads.” Xander Bogaerts after Christian Vázquez was traded at the deadline in early August “I don’t want to say it waves the white flag, but that’s a big piece going out.” Cora, July 27, after watching Franchy Cordero make three errors playing first base in a loss to the Guardians He hasn’t played too much at first base.” John Henry, in the middle of an 8 -19 July “I think we’re set to be in the mix, and as we get people back, we’ll be tough.” The Sox lost the series, and 27 of their next 39 games, many of them at the hands of the Jays, Rays, and Yankees. The unvaccinated Duran and Houck could not make the trip because of Canada’s (since lifted) vax requirements. Tanner Houck was established as the closer and the Sox were a season-high 11 games over.

327 and being compared to Fred Lynn when the hot Red Sox rolled into Toronto in late June. They were 11-20 on May 11 before they started a stretch of good baseball that lasted until the competition got better again in late June.

#Beat learning on the job quotes series#

They were able to beat bad teams, but they failed in almost every series against teams in their own division, going 26-50 vs. Obviously, we’ve had some tough losses late.”įrom the jump, the 2022 Red Sox showed us they could not compete in the American League East. “When everyone gets hot at the same time, it’s going to be a beautiful thing to witness.” Sale has won 11 games in four seasons since signing a $145 million contract extension. And in August, he broke his right wrist in a bicycle accident after a workout at Boston College. He suffered a broken pinkie on his pitching hand in his second start of the season when he was struck by an Aaron Hicks line drive in Yankee Stadium. He broke a rib throwing a pitch during a workout in February. Sale’s season was an orthopedic nightmare.