Hot! Jon Lester Admits It

Lester explained to your Boston Globe which they and various beginners did indeed have and also drink on occasion while their teammates battled inside vain to avoid a historical September collapse. Lester, not unexpectedly, experimented with that will downplay the practice.

A couple of not-so-salacious details:

The chicken in question came up through Popeye's. "We likely bought them like once a month," he says.

The beer-drinking seemed to be rarely of the binge variety . "There's your perception available that we had been in place now there receiving hammered understanding that wasn't the actual case," Lester confides. "Was the idea a bad habit? Yes. I needs to have happen to be around the bench above I was. But all of us simply just enjoyed terrible baseball like a workforce in September. We stunk. To become honest, we ended up doing exactly the same items all year if we acquired the very best file inside baseball. . It had been your ninth-inning rally beer. Most belonging to the times, it absolutely was just one beer, a beer. It appeared to be just like using a Coke in terms involving the way the idea affected you."

He can feel damaging Terry Francona, nevertheless finds out modify appeared to be probably necessary. "I certainly not saw folks maliciously smashing protocols or perhaps executing the incorrect idea before of the pup in addition to rubbing it with his / her face. But this type of team most likely required much more structure."

And finally, they have as agitated as any one this grubby details in the Red Sox collapse ended up . But will not argument what may be revealed. "Things obtained zoomed due to the fact many of us missing and solutions going revealing to men and women exactly what happened," he or she said, "which includes my home worried simply because if you're gonna state something, become a new man to place a person's name to it. But we are possibly not harmful individuals in addition to we've been not a bad group of guys."