I've calmed down a bit. Yesterday I felt like I was teleported back to the days before the 2004 season. In those days we use to get close, but never pull the game out in the end. Remember?
We've been spoiled in this decade with championships from the Patriots (who lost in OT yesterday), the Celtics & the Red Sox. We tend to forget about the 86 year drought & countless fans who never saw the Red Sox win a championship in their lifetime. Everything has to go just right to end up on top & it didn't work out for the Boston Red Sox in 2009.
As we go through the off-season & into Spring Training in February, we will discuss the many topics of interest surrounding this team. David Ortiz. Mike Lowell. Jason Varitek. There's 3 names right there that will generate lots of discussion. Let's throw in Jason Bay's future.
In retrospect, we were one of the last 8 teams standing. That's about all you can say about the 2009 season.
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Their hitting wasn't there all season against good pitchers. Their pitchers were very inconsistent. They were one of the top 4 in the league, actually top 3 because they would have beaten Minnesota. But they weren't in the same league as the Yankees and Angels after the all star break. There seems to be something missing in their chemistry, but that is an intangible that Theo can't trade for. All I know is that it is a LOOOOONG winter until p;itchers and catchers report. SB
How much should we attribute the Red Sox failure to Dice k's participation in the WBC? How many wins would they have had if he played the entire season and won 18 games like last year. 8 million dollars ? for what?
What is next for the sox? sign bay? sign gonzalez? release Varietek ? sign Watley?
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