Terry Francona appeared on Wednesday’s Dale and Holley show. Click here for the full audio.

Here are some of the highlights:

Terry Francona on last night’s collapse: “I can’t figure out why our teams pick Tuesdays to have things fall apart.”

On his philosophy regarding defensive indifference: “If we elect to hold him, the ball goes through, it’s different for every occasion. Theres a lot of time where we’re indifferent towards that.”

On the defensive adventures of Nick Green last night: “The first one he probably needed to eat it. the one that got by Pap, if he eats it we have a runner on first. It’s do or die you’ve gotta make a play.”

On his philosophy on inserting a defensive replacement: “Oh my goodness, if Youk makes an error tonight at third do you want me to take him out. He’s been very, very good, you can’t take a guy out once he makes an error.”

Putting a positive spin on Nick Green’s night: “Hes got so much range and is so athletic, he ran dowen the line and caught a pop up that nobody on our club makes.”

On Jonathan Papelbon’s outing last night: “That’s exactly what it is. There were a few things that happened. there was power to his fastball, tried to be a little to fine and lost Cust. He made a mistake to Everidge who hit it off the wall. When you walk people you’re asking for trouble.”

More on Papelbon: “I don’t think they’ve been an issue. I still don’t think he’s wild. We’ve been accustomed to a couple of years of double-digit walks. The less amount of walks he has the better.”

On the recent Daisuke Matsuzaka flap that was reported yesterday: “I listened to John talked to you guys, We’re dissapointed. Its not always hugs and giggles, and a lot of strong personalities. We think he’s betrayed out trust a little bit. I talked to him this morning about how this is all going to work. I told him it’s all about moving on from this mistake. He owns up to the fact that he made a mistake. I thhink he’s a in a pretty good place, it doesn’t sound like it from that interview.”

More on Matsuzaka: “It has been a give and take since hes gotten here. I don’t think we can expect a guy to come from a different culture and buy into everything. We want this guy to hold up throughtout the course of his career. When a shoulder gets weak as player plile up innings.”

On how he describes the conversations concerning the lineup with players like Mike Lowell: “I don’t if difficult is the right word, uncomfortable. A guy like Mikey Lowell hasn’t had to really look at the lineup card. We just have to communicate and make this work. make people understand how this is going to work. All the things we talk about guys putting themselves behind the team. It’s time to act like that.”

On the importance of having Kevin Youkilis on the team: “He makes our team a lot better because of his versatility, I appreciate it, I’ve told him.”

On the media involvement in trade rumors: “Every person in the media is throwing in trades. I can’t say I know what’s going to happen, but I can probably tell you what won’t happen. These guys are human and these rumors are dealing with their baseball lives.”

On what he knows with regards to current trade activity: “I could tell you 100 that arent going to happen. with today’s media it comes with the territory.”

On communcating with players if and when a transaction is made: “We try to do what we think is right, be honest and polite and curteous. You give news to guys that they won’t exactly like, but you’ve gotta do it the right way.”

On the clubhouse climate surrounding Friday’s Trading Deadline: “Its a little unsettleing, we’re the Red Sox and we’re players in a lot of things. My office door is open so much, to tryand ease things a bit.”

On last night’s atmosphere:“I think we do some things like no other place. These are some of the things I’ll soak in when I’m done. They do it better here an no other player. We don’t have the Mustard Race, we just ahve people who love baseball.”

On Jim Rice Night: “When Jim was in his hey day, I was a younger player, I never really played against him except maybe for Spring Training. I walways watched Fred Lynn, I was at an age that I wanted to play like Freddy Lynn. Jim Rice was a monster in his day, Lynn was a lefthander and smooth.”

On David Ortiz’s family issue last night and tonight’s lineup: “We actually weren’t going to play David tonight. What happened last night had nothing today with it. Anderson pitching tonight had everything to do with it.  David needed to go to the hospital last night. I made him leave. We’ll play LaRoche at first, Youkie at third, DH Lowell tonight. Hopefully this will be a lineup that produces.”

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