Although the Red Sox have embraced the moniker in the past,
David Wells did not mean it as a compliment when he call manager Terry Francona an "idiot."
The pitcher, who has already asked for a trade and changed his mind this spring, talked to Francona earlier in the week about the rotation, asking why
Josh Beckett isn't the No. 1 starter, then was upset when the manager revealed details of their conversation.
Wells
"What went on in that office should have stayed there in that office and it shouldn't have come out to you guys," Wells told The Hartford Courant in Saturday's edition. "So he's the idiot for saying that like that, not me, because I didn't interpret it like that."