Well it finally happened. Jason Varitek announced his retirement on Thursday.
The writing was on the wall when the team didn’t offer arbitration. And we know how greedy the Sox front office is with their arbitration cases (David Ortiz).
I’ve chronicled this several times over the last few years but this is about three years too late. Varitek has had trouble even batting his weight the last several seasons.
There’s talk about wanting to retire his number. I’ll save you the suspense. No. But you know what you can retire? The stupid “C” from the front of his jersey.
The “C” was one of the dumbest PR moves in the history of this organization and the team doesn’t need to replace someone wearing the stupid letter.
And the people saying they should bring him back ASAP as a coach, stop it. Stop drinking the fucking Kool Aid.
Varitek was a serviceable catcher that had a couple of really memorable seasons. And quite a few more forgetful ones.
Heidi Watnet affairs withstanding, I won’t miss him. I think the Sox brass and media pumped this guy up way more than he brought with talent.
Thanks for the memories, thanks for punching ARod in the face. Now see you later.
