Why do we hate John Henry?

Long story short, I don’t know.

John Henry and his ownership group brought a championship to the Red Sox for the 1st time in 87 freaking years and then 3 more for good measure. He brought Liverpool a Premier League championship for the 1st time in 30 years. If it was all about winning he should be heralded as a conquering king. However, he still gives of more of a greedy lizard vibe. I kind of feel bad for him, honestly. He calls no place home and literally lacks the ability to relate on a human level. He’s a super dork. But, then I remember he is a Billionaire with a hot young wife who doesn’t care that he eats ice-cream like a lizard boy. (Am I using the lizard reference too much? I can’t get it out of my head).

The latest jettison from normalcy was obviously the Super League debacle. They didn’t even try to hide the motivations here. It was just a money grab for the rich to get richer. Read the room gentleman. Which I guess if I have to boil it down, it is the corporate nature in which The Fenway Group operates that really rubs us the wrong way. It feels like as fans we have lost ownership over the local 9 and I’m sure Liverpool fans would agree.. They are all corporate stooges with no connection to the Boston which is important in a small town. Like, you can’t be so PR conscious that you literally buy the city’s newspaper and expect us to feel all warm and fuzzy about it.

There’s a disconnect there. They guy literally isn’t human. I’m not saying he is the lizard man from outer space, but who the fuck knows?! Maybe we’ve been infiltrated and aliens dig baseball. In fact that’s probably why the game has now sucked for so long. Alien lizard creeps like John Henry took human form and decided to take over America’s past time. In their space world time is a lot shorter so a 4 hour baseball game is no big deal. ?Now they’ve become board so it was onto jolly old England to fuck up their beloved game just for fun. Hey, the Simpsons predicted Trump. Why cant this be true? Crazier things have happened.

Bottom line, we really got a good reminder into the completely different, 1%er, all business, Tin Man world Mr. Henry lives with this whole Super League fiasco. And again, back to the PR consciousness. Shouldn’t someone tell this guy not to get on camera anymore? This did not help matters.

I guess good on him for not going full tyrant and just pushing it through in spite of the 100’s of years of fandom and history, but it’s rather baffling the Fenway Group didn’t see this coming. Pick up your loud asshole game ya London twits. You think John ever even gave it a thought to tear down Fenway? Nope. He gave it a $100 Million face lift to avoid a drunken mob of scaly caps and wife beaters.

So, I would say I don’t hate John Henry. He’s just too weird to like.