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It's the only crack these people will ever acknowledge in a Sox player. As a Minnesotan exiled to this East Coast Elba, I was at best an agnostic in Red Sox Nation - a non-believer who found the franchise and its fans a little too precious. The local liquor...
As the final pitch wafted into Jason Varitek’s glove, into “History,” I felt myself in a mood of serenity, even reconciliation with the Red Sox franchise. I congratulated my friends who had not acted like douche-bags—after all...
But one thing hasn’t: the Beantown nine are still a collection of likeable guys, guys that, despite the recent success of their franchise, are fun to root for.
Indeed, the high-altitude, low-achieving franchise had finished an average of 18 games out of first place each season since its National League debut in 1993. Awful field play, lousy free-agent signings, stupid trades and ownership bumbling had sapped the lifeblood of an organization that had launched with...
The solution to the thin-air problem, it turned out, was to put the baseballs in a humidor, where a little added moisture would keep them earthbound. And the solution to the performance problem was to get better baseball players, but on the cheap. Thus, the new Monfort doctrine: No...