ChuckElias wroteBye-bye, Youk. Understandable, but sad.
"I don't think he's as physically or emotionally into the game as he has been in the past for some reason." (Bobby Valentine, April 15, 2012)
I blame Bobby Valentine. He should have never said this aloud. He could have thought it, he could have said it to Youkilis behind closed doors, but he never should have said it to reporters. I believe that if Valentine had never said this, Youkilis would have been traded under very different circumstances, and his leaving would have been much more amicable.
