Appreciating Tony Massarotti

While Tony Massarotti of the Boston Globe continues to be portrayed by fans as negative when it comes to the standstill offseason of the Red Sox, I feel that he is just telling things as they are. Massarotti puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Red Sox for not reeling in the only free agent that they truly panted after: Mark Teixeira. Massarotti does allow that Teixeira may not have ever wanted to come to Boston, but the more likely scenario is that the Sox misplayed the negotiations and allowed the Yankees to swoop in and get business done. There are some similarities here on both sides to the Johnny Damon negotiations a while back.