Summing Up 2012 With One Picture

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The cover also features words which have been used often over the past 12 months when discussing the Red Sox, including "dysfunctional, fiasco, epic collapse, chicken and beer, broken, unprepared, done, Liverpool, feud, divided, circus, blown leads, split, disconnect, mediocrity, disarray, management, overpaid, lack of leaders and blame."

"Current manager Bobby Valentine has been blamed for many of this season's problems," the story says. "One baseball executive said, 'The problem when you have a manager like Bobby is that you're always refereeing if the players don’t like the manager. That gets old. And when some people aren't happy, they go around and get other people to be unhappy."