You know when you click on an album that one of your high school friends is tagged in and start looking at their pictures? But the only thing is that it’s not your friend’s album, it’s actually one of their random college friends you’ve never even met. And then after a while you realize you’re just looking at pictures of that person’s family at a cookout or something? This is fun for like 15 seconds before you realize how creepy it is. Like, yeah that girl is pretty hot. Or yeah, that guy’s mustache looks a lot like my dad’s mustache. But once you reach a certain point it’s just too weird and you have to exit out of the album. That’s pretty much how I feel about the Red Sox right now.
Look at the box score from last night’s game. Pretty brutal. All season long you expect to watch your guys play, but injuries have turned this team into something completely different. I said from the beginning that this team would be one of the best in baseball, finish with 91 wins, and be left out of the playoffs. And the fact that the Red Sox still have a solid record given the lineup they are putting out there everyday is actually pretty impressive. I’ve supported them all summer long even when I knew nothing would come of it. But these are not the Boston Red Sox anymore. Josh Reddick, Ryan Kalish, Darnell McDonald, Lars Anderson, Kevin Cash, Jared Saltalamacchia, Daniel Nava and Yamaico Navarro are not the players I was expecting to watch on a regular basis. This is some strange family I’ve never met and it kinda leaves me with an uneasy feeling when I watch them.
