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| Thursday, March 8 | |||||
| Boston's Everett misses bus to game | |||||
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Carl Everett needed just two weeks of
spring training to get in trouble again.
He missed the Boston Red Sox team bus Wednesday morning when it
made the 120-mile trip from Fort
Myers to Clearwater for a game against Philadelphia.
Red Sox manager Jimy Williams, who had several run-ins with
Everett last season, said, "The bus was there and he wasn't on
it."
He didn't say why Everett missed the 7:45 a.m. departure or
whether he will be punished. He did say the center fielder will
make the 90-mile trip to Bradenton for Thursday's game with
Pittsburgh.
"I've spoken to Carl and we will keep it in-house," Williams
said after a closed-door meeting with his coaches and Red Sox
special assistant Lee Thomas following the 9-8 win over the
Phillies.
Trot Nixon, who replaced Everett in center, went 2-for-4 with a
solo homer that tied the game at 6 in the ninth.
"We are going to just move forward," Williams said. "We have
to put the interests of the team first."
Last year, Everett said in the Red Sox clubhouse that he never
liked Williams. He irritated the manager late in the season when he
showed up late for an important game against Cleveland.
That's the day that Everett, who occasionally showed up late,
got into a clubhouse argument with outfielder Darren Lewis and the
two were separated.
Everett said he was hurt that day and couldn't play anyway, and
Williams was upset that general manager Dan Duquette sided with
Everett.
Williams and Everett tried to clear the air when they met last
December at baseball's winter meetings in Dallas.
"We got our views out," Everett said on Feb. 28, the day of
the first full-squad spring training workout. "We wanted to
understand how can we help one another, and that's what we
expressed."
Williams tried to put last year's problems behind him.
"My relationship has always been good with Carl," Williams
said last month.
Everett was on his good behavior until Wednesday. He patiently
signed autographs, once doing it for nearly two hours, during the
first 10 days of training camp.
He also has been pleasant with reporters.
"Every year's a fresh start," Everett had said. "You have to
get along, regardless."
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