“I will say this, if we win one or two more games than no one is looking at September, 2011 as this month when an otherwise solid clubhouse became completely dysfunctional and all these accusations. I’ll tell you this, there were other periods that were similar during the last 10 years with the Red Sox. There were periods in 2004 that were just as unproductive and contentious in the clubhouse. But guess what? We were 2 1/2 games out of the wild card in mid-August of 2004 and we got hot and we went 45-11 down the stretch instead of 11-45 or whatever it was this year, and we ended up toasting those idosyncrasies and the personalities and the extra-cirricular activities and became a great bunch of guys. I know the salacious details are good fodder to talk about, and, don’t get me wrong, there were a lot of things that happen and never should happen in the clubhouse, but don’t look past the losing the prime driver of all of this. If we had won a couple more games and gotten hot in the playoffs and won the World Series it would have been such a fun-loving group, all these personalties that came together in the end. It would have read a lot more like 2004. The difference was that we lost our last game and in 2004 we won it.”
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