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...maybe 99 games a season and we still don't win a pennant," Don Zimmer moaned after the 161st game of the season. "What can we do about...
...Zimmer's paunchy face contracted and his eyes dropped to his feet as he pulled his pants up. He had just towelled off after a cold shower. "I don't want to talk about him. I don't know anything about it. Go ask somebody else," he said very, very drily...
...feel like a monkey fuckin' a football," Lee said after sitting another night in the bullpen watching the waning moments of the 1978 season. "That guy [Zimmer] hates me. He just doesn't like me. And I don't like him. He's an asshole. I just can't tell you in public some of the things he's said to me, and then he goes out and tells everybody that he doesn't have anything against...
...likely that Bill Lee will not be here next spring. In fact, it seems that he may be traded, sold, or mysteriously banished within a month. More than anyone else on the team, Lee's situation is symbolic of the inflexibility of Zimmer and the Boston management...
...Zimmer did not approve of Lee's thoughts and comments about him, especially after a photograph of Zimmer which appeared in Sports Illustrated was captioned, "Being called a gerbil is O.K. if you win." Lee was accused of smoking marijuana on the team plane by various members of the press. He refused to "dress up" when the team appeared publicly, and he did a lot of strange things. Flaky things...