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Bobby Valentine Had A Meltdown Live On Boston Sports Radio This Afternoon

Yep. Bobby Valentine’s starting to lose it.

It hasn’t been a good afternoon for the embattled Red Sox skipper. Earlier today, he appeared on Sports Illustrated’s cover — not in a good way — and just a few minutes ago, Bobby V had a weird and contentious interview with Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley on Boston’s WEEI.

At one point, Valentine threatened to punch Glenn Ordway in the mouth…

Bobby V to @bigoweei: “If I was there I’d punch you right in the mouth.”

— WEEI (@WEEI) September 5, 2012

…and then immediately laughed. Not necessarily in a “Ha-Ha” way, but in more of a “I kind of mean what I said, but I’m going to dress it up with this slightly crazed sound.”

He then demanded an apology from Ordway about a report that he was late to a recent game, even though Ordway himself didn’t write the piece.

“Why would somebody even, that’s stuff that a comic strip person would write,” Valentine said. “If someone’s here, watching me go out at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, watching me put in the right relief pitchers to get a win, putting on a hit-and-run when it was necessary, talking to the guys after the game in the food room — how could someone in real life say that?”

When asked about his future with the club — and whether he’d want to come back next season if ownership allowed him to — he left that rather open-ended, saying he’ll do whatever allows him to wake up every day and “do his best.” Not sure what that means.

All in all, Bobby V sounds like he’s having kind of an awful time.

Bobby Valentine on @weei Radio in Boston just described his experience as #RedSox manager this season as “miserable.”

— Steve Berthiaume (@SBerthiaumeESPN) September 5, 2012

Listen to the full interview here, via WEEI’s website. It sounds a little like an exhausted guy who’s about ready to fulfill his contractual obligations through the end of the season, then split.

Oh, and Glenn Ordway and whoever wrote that damn article about Bobby being late to the ballpark: you may or may not be on his “PEOPLE TO KILL” list. Just a heads up.

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