I’m so conflicted about this whole thing. My mind is absolute racing after this loss.
Let’s start with the things that make me mad. The Red Sox straight up didn’t show up to this game. The offense was non-existent, the defense was as embarrassingly bad as last year’s World Series Yankees. It was just such half-hearted effort in a do-or-die game. Granted, there’s a fine line between cool, calm, and collected—not letting the moment get too emotional—and just being apathetic. It’s it’s hard to tell the difference given the tint of the lens on my glasses right now.
There is some good to take out of all of this, though. Every rebuilding team needs some postseason pain to make themselves stronger. This team was completely depleted on the offensive side of the ball, between some guys getting ex