Red Sox ace Josh Beckett says recent schedule "dumbest thing he's ever seen"

Red Sox ace Josh Beckett is not a fan of whomever puts together the Major League Baseball schedule.

According to Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, Beckett, never one to mince words, had this to say yesterday about the Red Sox recent schedule, including the ridiculous 3 games in 28 hours his team was forced to play earlier this week against the Tampa Bay Rays.

"Our travel hasn't exactly been great," he said. "I know that our offense is taking a lot of flack for that. How can you not be tired with the [expletive] that we went through the last week and a half? I don't know how they do it. There's been several days where a couple of these guys have played and I don't know how they did it.

"This travel has been horrible. I don't know who the [expletive] made that doubleheader that day. They [the Rays] come back one more time. We haven't exactly been treated fair here the last week or so. That doubleheader being the most glaring thing for me. I'm not real sure how that gets thrown on that day.

"I don't know how they expect them to still score eight runs after coming back from Seattle, having half an off day and then go get 'em for three games in a day and a half. ... I don't who the [expletive] agreed to that. It was the dumbest thing I've ever seen."

And that was Beckett after a WIN.

Two things I love about Josh Beckett: 1) He always takes responsibility when he pitches like crap, and 2) he always says exactly what he wants to say, however it is he wants to say it, to whomever he wants to say it, whenever he wants to say it.

And, by the way, he’s right.

It was insane to play a double-header this week given the schedule. As Peter Abraham points out, the Red Sox are in the middle of a stretch where they play 37 games in 38 days in six different states and three different time zones. Not exactly an ideal time to throw in a double-header.

The Rays come back to Fenway on September 15th. With expanded rosters, and off days on both September 12th and 22nd, that would have been a far more reasonable place to insert a double-header.

But, then, nobody ever accused Major League Baseball of being reasonable…