That Boston wins its 5th world championship in this godforsaken millennium.
If we believe in magical thought - and who here doesn't? - we should all be standing naked at the Precipice, screaming madly into the Firmament, eyes open to the vast, bludgeoning Abyss.
I mean, check out the sequences in play.
Boston won it all...
In 2004.
In 2007.
In 2013.
In 2018.
Listen: They're overdue, like the Grand Canyon.
And they are using the same old formula, (as the Yankees are reusing theirs, which has won - hmm, checking the numbers here - Absolutely Nothing since 2009.)
The Redsocks are young, hungry and ascending, baseball's hottest team, soon to be bolstered by the return of Alex Bregman. They can trade for anyone, thanks to a farm system overflowing with talent, which they nurtured for four years.
Try not to pee, as you ponder the differences between them and us:
They get an all-star 3B, while we endure the comedy team of Oswald & Jorbit.
Today, in the kiddie draft, they'll pick 15th, while we wait until #39. Of course, we'll tout whomever we select, but let's face it: The premier talent will be long gone.
They are harvesting one of MLB's top rated farm systems, an abundance of trade chips. We have three: Cam Schlittler, George Lombard Jr. and the meteoric Spencer Jones. (FYI: Last night, Jones went 0-5 with 2 Ks. In yesterday's Futures Game, Lombard went 1-2 with a double and a walk.)
Today, we sit two behind Toronto, three up on Boston. Aaron Judge is second in home runs, second in RBIS and first in Batting Average - still the game's greatest slugger, even as Big Dumpster Raleigh defies gravity. Deals are coming. The Yankees are going to trade for - well - something. A storm is coming. Boston is closing. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Until there is a radical change at the top of the organization, there will be no change in the failed methods of operation that hold us back. Unfortunately, all too many fans fall for the gaslighting and outright bullshit. Things will only get worse in the not too distant future with the very real possibility of a player’s strike or owner’s lockout after the 2026 season.
The current agreement expires 12/1/26 . “Commissioner” Rob Manfred has said that a lockout would be a positive for the sport:
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/mlb-players-union-expects-lockout-by-team-owners-after-cba-expires-following-2026-season-211742786.html
BTR - the lockout that the owners want would be DOJE-level regression. Curt Flood will turn in his grave. Volpe will be selling furniture in the off-season. The lords of baseball will regain their Lordly status over their vassals. We "fans" are barely an afterthought. As for the Sox, they are operating on good, sound baseball principles. We operate at the whim of a moron, owned by a nepo moron, who presides over morons. I need more coffee.
DOGE, damn it, not DOJE. not enough coffee
Did someone mention coffee…..
There's a great scene in Animal House where Bluto analyzes the Deltas' problem and lays out what he sees as the best solution:
Wormer? He's a dead man!
Marmalard? Dead!
Neidermeyer? ....
Now, using your best John Belushi voice in your head, please read the following:
Rob Manfred? He's a dead man.
Hal? Dead!
Cashman? Dead!
Problem solved.
Bitty, even in the midst of your caffeine withdrawal, I think you nailed it!
Good post, Duque...but didn't you mean "Old Faithful" is overdue, not the Grand Canyon? The Grand Canyon is due and long done, right? Wasn't it part of some ancient sea that long ago emptied out?
I think the fear is that Old Faithful and/or nearby geysers will some day erupt into an enormous, geothermal explosion that will threaten all life on earth.
At least, that's what Woody Harrelson was saying in the movie, 2012, which was based on ancient Incan predictions (and of course we know the Incans could never be wrong).
It will be interesting to see if Hal & Pal go along with the lockout. It would be a gobsmacking act of self-destruction, considering how good he and his fellow owners have it now. But then, Hal seems bent on going along to get along, no matter what...
...But this! Manfred is an idiot to encourage such talk—which once again comes from the inability of the owners to contain their own spending, and their refusal to ever operate as anything but a lockstep cartel. Truly nuts, with all the money they are hauling in.
But then, we as a nation are currently engaged in the greatest act of national suicide in human history, a country at the very top of the world deciding to isolate and destroy itself. Maybe it's something in the water...
...If the lockout DOES come about, the players should seriously consider reviving the 1890 idea of a Players' League, which almost succeeded. If they had sense—or were not bribed with peanuts—the leaders of major-league cities would jump on that bandwagon, supporting the players and using such a rebellion to break the owners' cartel.
They could and should provide a Players' League with subsidized places to play, in return for profit sharing and strict ceilings on prices. "You may say I'm a dreamer/ But I'm not the only one..." Could not be worse than what the major sports are doing to us right now.
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