More John Henry quotes (per the Twitterverse):

"[Crawford was] definitely a baseball signing. In fact, anyone involved in the process, anyone in upper management with the Red Sox will tell you that I personally opposed that.  We had plenty of left-handed hitting. I don't have to go into why. I'll just tell you that at the time I opposed the deal, but I don't meddle to the point of making decisions for our baseball team. ... It wasn't a PR move. Neither was the Gonzalez signing."

"It seems to me like there’s almost like a media riot going on."

"If you look at what actually happened, rather than going nuts about it, the starting pitching failed."

"Did you watch any of those games?  I didn't see any of our players doing anything other than busting their ass to win games."

"I’m not going to air it out in public, everything that we find that we need to fix."

"The chaos that’s going on is much more external than internal.  You said, 'The Red Sox are in ashes.' That's not how we feel about it . . . There's not a sense of desperation, except when we turn on the radio. We're going to be successful next year."

(re: Theo) "I really can't go into it. There's a prohibition against announcements being made during the postseason in baseball. It would be unfair of me to the Cubs, who I don’t care that much about, but certainly to the Red Sox, Theo and the people involved to comment on what’s going on until there’s something to announce. As far as I know, he's still involved."

"I’d love to have Theo back. I would have loved for Theo to have been our general manager for the next 20 years. That was my hope. That would have been my hope. But you don’t always get what you want. I did everything I could personally, so did Tom, so did Larry, to make that happen, but the fact is, I don’t think people understand this, that being general manager in Boston, being manager in Boston is a terrifically tough job."

"We do have to do better in free agency. It's not easy to do it."

"Ultimately, Larry, Tom and John do not make baseball decisions."

"Ownership doesn’t make the call on players. We get involved when there are financial issues."

"We can't evaluate a player the way baseball scouts can do...."

"Larry Lucchino runs the Red Sox.  Tom and I don't run the Red Sox but we're fortunate to have one of the best CEOs in baseball. In order to compete we had to look beyond baseball."

"We've had great management."

(regarding the smear) "We've been smeared. You guys have been smearing us.  The author of the story has gone on the record to say that we did not participate in it. I don’t know what more there is to say. The problem is that once somebody says the Sox ownership smeared Tito, it never goes away."

"It seems like there’s nothing that doesn’t get out in sports.  When it comes to who’s giving personal information from the Red Sox, you can’t really go on a witch hunt and start accusing people."

"Everybody is blaming everybody for everything, but we don’t blame everybody for everything."

"I don't condemn the story; I condemn personal things coming out."

"A year ago, we talked about how much longer Larry wants to continue. ... He hasn’t slowed down a bit over the last 10 years. ... He hasn’t set a time or a date.  Theo sort of did at one point. He never saw the general manager’s role as longer than 10 years for himself.  After a few years, he knew that the stress of this job was too much. But in Larry’s case, he thrives on it. ... We effectively agreed on going X amount of years out, but it wasn’t until, I believe it was just after the Tito meeting, that I said to Larry, ‘Did we ever sign that extension?’ He said, ‘I don’t think so.’ I said, ‘Do you feel any different?’ He said no."

"We never had to make a choice between them."

"It broke my heart to see this club fall apart at the end. ... I have to be as angry and as upset as any fans are."

"We're going to be back as an organization....We're going to have a great team next year...I love this team."