wake up francona

i usually like francona, but he needs to "make adjustments" as the commentators are so fond of saying.

listening to part of game 3, then watched much of it, giving up after the top of the 10th. i really think francona lost this game for the sox. was on the cape for mom's wedding so got the game intermittently.

first of all, beckett had nothing. you've got to pull him after 4 and go to paul byrd. but francona, loyal to a fault, sticks with beckett, who coughs up a 6-5 lead. then, after papelbon pitches, he goes to timlin, who's had nothing all season. now this has a predictable result, with timlin walking the bases loaded and then giving up the fatal sac fly. where was byrd at this point?

or perhaps the rotation should've had lester following beckett directly, which wouldn't have given him such a long layoff before game 3, which the sox have just about lost as a type this.

the sox showed a lot of fight in game 3, but could've put away the rays at several points and didn't.