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...wild card (not to mention the hearts and minds of all native New Englanders) and advanced all the way to the league championship series? Surely there was enough reason for optimism this season that even the editors of Sports Illustrated made the most brazen of predictions, picking the Red Sox to win the 2000 World Series...
...retrospect, we got too far ahead of ourselves. And so now the baseball gods have humbled us on account of our hubris. We dared to tempt fate, believing that the Sox might finally cast off the cursed mantle of 82 years of futility. But alas, our pride was found to be in excess and we were struck down in the sight of our enemies, namely the ever-loathsome front-runners who hail from the Bronx...
...Everett, whose slugging skills were supposed to finally replace the bat of Mo Vaughn, was revealed to be little more than a whack job, whose off-the-field tantrums overshadowed his team-leading home run total. Perhaps the four teams that released Carl prior to his joining the Red Sox knew something we didn...
Despite all the turmoil, though, the Sox might still have had a shot at the postseason had their efforts not been undermined by the ineptness of Sox general (mis)manager Dan Duquette. After pledging in that now-infamous SI article last spring to make a serious bid for an impact player to help put the Sox over the top, Duquette sat idly by while the trading deadline came and went last July. While the Yankees bolstered their roster with the likes of Denny Neagle, Dave Justice, and Jose Canseco, the Duke brought us the immortal Ed Sprague, Mike Lansing...
...process, Duquette has sent the Sox' payroll soaring to George Steinbrenner-type levels, sans the output on the field. As a result, Red Sox management will likely find itself in the unavoidable situation of having to raise ticket prices, which are already the highest in the majors, in order to cover its inflated spending...