Even though Mookie Betts is the hill I’d prefer to die on over Devers, who clearly was also not 100% in the right in how he handled this issue either, I’m really at a loss for how I feel about the Red Sox at the moment. Trading Devers on its own in a vacuum wouldn’t be an unforgivable sin, but after everything that’s led up to this moment it does feel like a final straw of sorts for me.
I am fortunate that I got to come of age during the golden era of Red Sox baseball. I’ll never pretend like I was some long suffering fan who finally got to see it pay off, truth is I was born in the 90’s so I don’t remember more than a year or two at most before ’04. But that was certainly the season that signed, sealed, and delivered me as an all-in Sox fan for life. Even though I didn’t endure much of the curse era myself, I understood the gravity of it and how blessed I was to be free from the generational futility that caused so many of the older fans to be so cynical and miserable.
It would not be too big of an exaggeration to say when I was younger the Red Sox were one of the greatest sources of joy in my life. I lived and breathed with this team year round. I’d impatiently wait to watch as many games as I could physically handle in the summer, live and die with them every October, and spend all winter reading about their offseason moves and up and coming prospects to know about.
I don’t think I can ever fully quit this team, that’s not the kind of fan I am and I don’t want to start so I’m not going to be one of those sanctimonious “I’m done with this team” people, Especially knowing how many fanbases have had it plenty worse than us over the years. But I have lost so much faith and trust in this organization the last 6 years, I don’t know if I can ever get back to being as excited about simply being a Red Sox fan as I used to be when I was younger. It’s got nothing to do with winning, obviously I knew all along that winning a World Series every 4 or 5 years was never going to last forever. But there has been a palpable shift in the way they do things. John Henry and FSG clearly no longer care about the people and players who made the organization and being part of its fanbase so special. So why should we care anymore either?
Since I have no plans on quitting my fandom, I guess you can consider this my resignation to having fully transitioned into one of those cynical, “expect the worst, always” kind of fans I never wanted to become. So thanks for that, FSG! You can’t sell the team soon enough. Take your ROI and get the hell out of Boston, forever.
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