And one wonders why the Red Sox are sinking! You would think he would welcome Wagner to take some of the load off of him. I guess he decided to show his selfish side.

there is an attitude that is absolutely required to be a successful closer. There is only room for one closer on a team, and a team picking up a second closer can only serve to rattle the cage. There has never been a closer who said, "oh good, the team's picking up another closer to help with some of my load". Yeah, right. Ask Sparky Lyle and Rich Gossage.

Any pitcher worth a nickel wants the ball, all the time. Bob Gibson never said, "thanks for coming out to get me skip, I was getting tired." He said, "get your fucking ass off my mound or I'll kill you, your wife, your whole goddamn family." But you never hear anybody calling Bob Gibson an asshole, except the batters he had to face