Bobby Valentine: 'Connie Mack wouldn't have won with that team'

[madinmaryland]

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- It didn't take long for Bobby Valentine to move past his year to forget in Boston. Of course, there was a new challenge to help him along the way.

Some five months after being fired as manager of the Red Sox, Valentine was introduced Tuesday as the new athletic director of Sacred Heart University.

Valentine, a Connecticut native who lasted just one season with Boston, will take over a program that competes in the Northeast Conference and has 31 teams, including baseball.

"I don't look back," Valentine said, as he flashed his traditional array of smiles. "I don't do that stuff. Maybe one bike ride and I said `Oh, darn'. Maybe, I don't know. It wasn't my first rodeo. It wasn't the first time I was fired and it probably won't be the last time."

The high-profile hiring by the Pioneers brought a packed crowd to his press conference at University Commons. Approximately 300 people attended, including several athletes.

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I think they should all shut the fuck up after last season there. A shitty management job with a shitty team.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. the trouble certainly started before he got there. but if the team were gas, he was a match.

One of the all time epic fail examples of managing a baseball team!

[madinmaryland]

2. It definitely was, though it was sure fun watching joeybee squirm through a season when they

lost 10 more games than the Pittsburgh Pirates did!

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. As a Sox fan since 1967, I have to admit to relishing all of the various unique ways they lost last

year! If your team is going to suck, it may as well really, really suck!

[madinmaryland]

4. As a Pirates fan since the late 60's also, I have learned over the last twenty

how a team has perfected suckitude and how to break its fan's hearts.

[bluedigger]

5. There's some truth in that.

I just hate mediocrity.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. this year for them could define mediocrity....team looks good on paper, but will they play?

[bluedigger]

7. 85 wins - third place.

The AL East could be pretty exciting this year - the Yankees don't have much depth and there is good parity within the division. On paper.

[joeybee12]

8. 97 wins...they take the division....nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. oh, if only...if the players play like they are capable of, and Farrell smooths their feathers...

it could be quite a turnaround. We shall see!

[joeybee12]

10. Well, its easy to be optimistic in February!

They certainly do have the talent...and they could be ready to play simply because they want to put as much between this year and last as possible!

[TZ]

11. more wins than the Nats had last year

Quite the optimist aren't you Joey. LOL

[joeybee12]

14. I think it will take 97 wins to take the division...

Never count out Satan, and Baltimore and BJ's will be good, although Toronto will be nowhere as good as the salivating dipshits at ESPN think.

[bluedigger]

12. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.

[joeybee12]

13. Hah!

I am right, and you know it!

[bluedigger]

15. I'd like to think so!