McAdam On Toucher & Rich: Meeting Like This 'Extremely' Rare

The Red Sox are now three games below .500 and the stories just keep rolling out. The latest involves some players having a meeting with ownership while on the road in New York about their dislike for manager Bobby Valentine.

According to Yahoo! Sports' Jeff Passan, players met with team owner John Henry and president/CEO Larry Lucchino in late July.

READ: Pedroia, Gonzalez Led Players' Meeting With Red Sox Ownership Complaining About Valentine In July

Comcast SportsNet's Sean McAdam spoke with 98.5 The Sports Hub's Toucher & Rich about the meeting, Adrian Gonzalez orchestrating and Dustin Pedroia's comments about the meeting.

McAdam is around this team everday, was this report by Pasan the first time he heard about this meeting?

"Yes, I mean there had been no inkling this had taken place. It was apparently on the off day between Texas and New York a couple of weeks ago and this is the first that anyone's known of this to my knowledge."

How someone get information like this? Could he have been contacted by one of the players who attended the meeting?

"It could be any number of, it could be being tipped by an agent of a player, I mean when you're a national guy you're in touch with a lot of people."

After the report of this meeting broke some were quick to say that player and ownership meeting were common with teams. Is that true?

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"You don't see this a whole lot, I mean I wrote back in June that players were unhappy with Valentine and some had approached Cherington with their complaints and I suppose this is the next logical step up the ladder."

Was McAdam surprised that it was a text by Adrian Gonzalez was the one that spurned this meeting?

"Yeah a little bit, I agree he's not necessarily a vocal type, he's not one that has been linked to any issues with Valentine before."

In the article it stated that Dustin Pedroia was very vocal in the meeting, but he told the media Monday that though he was at the meeting he wasn't calling for Bobby Valentine to be fired. Does McAdam believe the second baseman?

"I think that's all a matter of semantics, if you're one of the ringleaders or one of the players who requests this meeting and the owners essentially fly down to New York and give you this audience to state your grievances, you don't have to say when you getting rid of this guy or can we get a change here in the manager's office. When the very essence of the meeting is let us tell you the number of things we are unhappy about."

Plus does calling a meeting like this do damage to the team?