Terry Francona
Terry Francona
Terrence Jon "Terry" Francona, nicknamed "Tito", is the current manager of the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He was a first baseman and outfielder in the majors from 1981 to 1990. After retiring as a player, he managed several minor league teams in the 1990s before managing the Philadelphia Phillies for four seasons. In 2004, Francona was hired to manage the Boston Red Sox, and that year he led the team to its first World Series championship since 1918...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 April 1959
CityAberdeen, SD
CountryUnited States of America
Whatever he did, he found himself, because early he didn't have his good stuff.
If we're talking about their pitching next week, then I'm probably not going to be smiling.
We won. I'm sure they'd rather play at home, ... In the end it doesn't matter. You need to win wherever you play. If that gets in the way, you're not good enough.
We won 95 games in a season where things didn't go right. I'm not going to apologize for that.
We signed him because he's one of the best pitchers in the league. Now we're close to having that guy back.
Maybe we can get him down to Pawtucket three days before he's eligible.
We're going home. We have a lot of business to tend to, but at home we hope to be a force. We have an important week; it'll be fun.
Oh, yeah. Because of what he did go through this winter, his showing up a little bit late, but showing up in the right frame of mind, is OK with me. We rely on him so much that if that's what it takes, it's OK with me.
Is it going to happen? It might not happen, but we're trying to cover every base we can.
Don't get me wrong: These people love the Patriots. But they wake up and want to know what happened to the Red Sox. I mean, they really care. It's unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. It's part of what's so good. But I'm right smack in the middle of it, and it gives me a headache sometimes. I know what it means to these people. I just want to do what's right for our team. I love living through this with them.
After all these games we've played, we've played ourselves into a situation where it comes down to two games. That's just the way it is.
There was a lot of extraordinary efforts tonight by a lot of people. We got ourselves in a position where one slip-up and we lose. We actually put ourselves in a position where we could win in the eighth and we didn't.
There wasn't a whole lot that was easy (this season),
There's a big sense of comfort for me when he's out there pitching. He knows what he's doing and even if it's not perfect, he's going to compete. He's not going to give in.