Although Mookie Betts is the hill I’d favor to die on over Devers, who clearly was additionally not 100% in the proper in how he dealt with this difficulty both, I’m actually at a loss for a way I really feel concerning the Pink Sox for the time being. Buying and selling Devers by itself in a vacuum wouldn’t be an unforgivable sin, however after the whole lot that’s led as much as this second it does really feel like a remaining straw of kinds for me.
I’m lucky that I obtained to return of age throughout the golden period of Pink Sox baseball. I’ll by no means fake like I used to be some lengthy struggling fan who lastly obtained to see it repay, reality is I used to be born within the 90’s so I don’t keep in mind greater than a yr or two at most earlier than ’04. However that was actually the season that signed, sealed, and delivered me as an all-in Sox fan for all times. Although I didn’t endure a lot of the curse period myself, I understood the gravity of it and the way blessed I used to be to be free from the generational futility that brought on so lots of the older followers to be so cynical and depressing.
It could not be too huge of an exaggeration to say after I was youthful the Pink Sox had been one of many biggest sources of pleasure in my life. I lived and breathed with this crew yr spherical. I’d impatiently wait to look at as many video games as I may bodily deal with in the summertime, reside and die with them each October, and spend all winter studying about their offseason strikes and up and coming prospects to find out about.
I don’t assume I can ever absolutely stop this crew, that’s not the form of fan I’m and I don’t wish to begin so I’m not going to be a kind of sanctimonious “I’m completed with this crew” folks, Particularly understanding what number of fanbases have had it lots worse than us over time. However I’ve misplaced a lot religion and belief on this group the final 6 years, I don’t know if I can ever get again to being as enthusiastic about merely being a Pink Sox fan as I was after I was youthful. It’s obtained nothing to do with profitable, clearly I knew all alongside that profitable a World Sequence each 4 or 5 years was by no means going to final endlessly. However there was a palpable shift in the way in which they do issues. John Henry and FSG clearly now not care concerning the folks and gamers who made the group and being a part of its fanbase so particular. So why ought to we care anymore both?
Since I’ve no plans on quitting my fandom, I suppose you may think about this my resignation to having absolutely transitioned into a kind of cynical, “count on the worst, all the time” form of followers I by no means needed to turn out to be. So thanks for that, FSG! You may’t promote the crew quickly sufficient. Take your ROI and get the hell out of Boston, endlessly.
