Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester admitted yesterday that he drank beer in the locker room some games these season and it was "aright." Merely he insisted that this behaviour wasn't to blame since the collapse from the team up in Sept.
"There's an perception that we were there to get hammered, and it wasn't," Lester said the Globe by call of his house in Georgia. "It was an bad habit? Yes I should have gotten on the bench more me. Merely however do you play bad baseball game team in Sept. We don't stink. Really, we were doing as is things throughout the season, as we'd the best record in baseball game. "
Lester told that the drink was limited, since pitchers who weren't in the game that daylight.
"It was an manifestation entree 9th beer," he told. "I probably ordered the chicken of Popeye, alike once an calendar month. What happened. Merely that's not why he lost.
"Most from the time it was a beer, an beer. It was like having an Coke in terms from however it affected you mentally or physically. I know what it looks like to people, and it certainly seems bad. Merely we weren't there barely to eat and drink, and no one plays video games. We saw the game. "
Lester hasn't spoken with the deposed leader Terry Francona, contact him by text messages.
He told he was sorry to see Franco left the team up, merely thinks it mightiness be the best.
"I love Tito, and he did an good job since U.S.A., as he was here. On an personal level, I was more thankful since what he did as me and my family," says Lester. "Merely there will come an time when it is authority are no longer. You can kind of drive, of course. The people knew how Tito was, and we pushed the envelope. We never had rules, we ne'er had, that the iron- fist mentality. If it's screwed, he called for it. And so it was that it worked.
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