Julio Lugo, who has already committed 10 errors this season, got a little shirty:

“I don’t care, but sometimes it would be nice to say something positive,” he said. “But all the time it’s negative things, you know? Sometimes, you know, people should say something that’s positive. But every time it’s something negative . . . bring it up, bring it up, bring it up. Why?

“I understand you (the media) are going to write whatever you want . . . but I come here every day and bust my ass . . . if things don’t work out sometimes, that’s the way it’s going to be. You understand? But sometimes you bring up the same things . . . You get tired of that.”

There are a lot of ways to go with this one. The easy way, the time-honored way, is simply to remind Lugo that it was his decision to sign a four-year, $36 million contract to play for the Red Sox. It’s like that line from the film “Airplane!” in which a Jack Kirkpatrick-like character says, “They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say, let ’em crash!”

On the one hand, I agree that a multimillionaire should be able to handle a critical journalist or two, on the other hand, I hate it to be critized by others when I’m already hard on myself, so I feel some sympathy for Julio Lugo. And seriously, what do the journalists expect him to say, really? Aren’t they asking their stupid questions just in order to have someone loose his self-control? Because Lugo’s outburst is certainly a better story than his errors, right?

Link: Julio Lugo lets it go