Boston sports talk radio is taking the Mookie Betts stuff as well as you’d expect
By John Buhler
Of course, Boston sports radio can’t say nice things about Mookie Betts.
Did you honestly think Boston sports talk radio would praise Mookie Betts these days?
In his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the former AL MVP of the Boston Red Sox has just signed a massive contract to seemingly never play for anyone else outside of the Dodgers for the rest of time. Betts is a big fan of calling Los Angeles home these days. Had he gotten that type of offer in Boston, he probably wouldn’t have signed it because he loves living in Los Angeles.
So it’s only fitting that Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said not so nice things about Betts on WEEI. “When people are partying in LA, I just want to remind LA that in the last 20 years, Los Angeles has won zero World Series and the Red Sox have won four. I’ve got nothing to be complaining about regarding our past.”
Tom Werner on @OMFonWEEI: "When people are partying in LA, I just want to remind LA that in the last 20 years, Los Angeles has won zero World Series and the Red Sox have won four. I’ve got nothing to be complaining about regarding our past."
— Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) July 24, 2020
Would you have expected anything else out of New England sports, honestly?
Betts went 1-5 at the plate in his Dodgers’ debut on Friday night. He had a base knock, scored a run and struck out twice in Los Angeles’ easy 8-1 victory over the arch rival San Francisco Giants. But let’s be real. What everyone is talking about with Betts is he was the lone Dodger to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem ahead of last night’s ball game in Chavez Ravine.
The Dodgers are expected to win the National League this year and contend for their first World Series championship since 1988. Boston may have won four World Series championships in the 21st century, but the Red Sox are not favored to win the American League East this year. People expect for the New York Yankees to meet the Dodgers in the Fall Classic and party like it’s 1981.
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The Dodgers have last year’s NL MVP in Cody Bellinger, as well as one of the most stacked rotations in all of baseball. Clayton Kershaw is a future Baseball Hall of Famer, Walker Buehler is the next budding star on the mound. Alex Wood is a seasoned veteran, Julio Urias is on the rise and Dustin May has a ton of red hair hanging out of the back of his Dodger Blue ball cap.
If you’re surprised Werner is bitter, then you don’t know a thing about New England sports.