The Red Sox were a mere 2-4 on during their recent West Coast road trip, but the talk around the team this week has been more about what has happened off the field than on it. On Thursday, Red Sox President Sam Kennedy joined Lou Merloni and Mike Mutnansky on OMF to discuss the driving force behind the Sox off the field issues: David Price’s confrontation with Dennis Eckersley. To hear the full conversation go to the OMF audio on demand page.

“I don’t know the background of how it started off or if it was something premeditated or anything like that. I know there has been a lot of discussion about it,” Kennedy said. “I can certainly give you my reaction and be crystal clear on the matter. Dennis Eckersley was owed an apology after what happened, clearly. Let me be clear, he received one less than 12 hours after the incident happened. He received one from me. I woke him up in his hotel room in Toronto. John Farrell and Dave Dombrowski were aware of that, we had conversations about that. I followed up with Dennis and those guys did exactly what they were supposed to do, which was follow up with David Price, given it was a clubhouse matter and they handled that in private as they should. It was a regrettable and unfortunate incident. As an organization, you mentioned it happened a month ago, we’ve done our best to try and move on from it. Beefs between professional athletes and the media are as old as the game itself. It’s unfortunate and regrettable when they get out in the public domain, but they do happen from time to time.’

Kennedy went on to say he was unaware if David Price had apologized and was not going to speak on Price’s behalf. Earlier this week, Farrell said he had not apologized to Eckersley, but Kennedy did not comment on whether he thinks Farrell should apologize to Eckersley.

“I think John Farrell has got one of the toughest job in North America, maybe one of the toughest jobs in professional sports,” Kennedy said. “Again, I’m not going to speak for John, other than John knew, Dave Dombrowski knew that I would be reaching out to Dennis and have dealt with that. I have talked with Dennis on multiple occasions. So again, I’m not going to speak for John or anyone else other than to say we were all on the same team and we are going to work through what was a regrettable and unacceptable incident and we’re moving on.”

In addition, Kennedy did not comment on whether Price was punished for the incident, saying it was private matter. For more Red Sox news visit weei.com/redsox.