Great expectations for the Boston Red Sox
Dombrowski sits in his chair, perplexed at his boss, as he’s never seen him this passionate about postseason expectations since he arrived in Boston.
“If you’d like to continue the excuse-making trend of doing well in the regular season and flopping in the postseason, be my guest,” Henry carries on. “But your fate as manager of this ball club will be the same as the previous one. He won two consecutive AL East division titles. Terry Francona never even did that. But as you know Alex, Tito’s teams knew how to play in October”.
The message was as clear as day to Cora at this point: win in the playoffs or don’t win at all. Every expectation pointed toward this.
For Henry, the meeting was over. The message was clearly sent to Cora of what he had to do. And in Cora’s mind, the message was received.
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Henry dismisses the group, remarking on how productive the meeting had been and how much he was looking forward to the season.
Cora exits out the only door in the office, while Dombrowski goes around to Henry’s side of the desk to get a cup of water from the water dispenser behind Henry’s seat. As he takes his final step toward the dispenser, Dombrowski screams, jumping up and grabbing his foot in pain.
Dombrowski grabs the seat next to Henry, propping his foot upon his knee to see what went through the bottom of his shoe.
Henry catches a glimpse of what it’s in Dombrowski’s shoe and immediately reaches for the shoe.
“Oh my god, Dave!” yells Henry. “It’s my Liverpool lapel!”
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Henry yanks out the lapel, carefully examine it and puts it back on his suit.
“It’s 18 karat gold!”