The Red Sox have taken a supernova of heat over the last three or so years.
All of it well deserved.
It’s made the club irrelevant.
A team can endure a down period where their fans are frustrated or pissed off.
You risk alienating the next few generations of paying customers.
There’s no coming back from that.
But that’s in the past.
Today is about giving them credit where it’s due.
The fact it allows Bregman to opt out at the end of each of the next two seasons.
Though since he’s reunited with Alex Cora, that might not even be an issue.
Regardless, that’s a problem for future us.
The here and now is that this team just got appreciably more interesting.
Now they’ve changed the whole trajectory of the franchise.
And possibly shifted the balance of power in the AL East, even if just slightly.
The idea of watching October baseball again in Boston just became a legitimate hope once more.
And for now, a hope will do.
