What Do You Mean 'Now', Kemosabe?

One thing's for sure - Shank has never done 'disingenuous' very well.

Should we now be worried about the Red Sox?

At what point, precisely, are we allowed to wonder whether these Red Sox are OK?

You've been 'wonder'ing from Game 1, asshole...

We have made the excuses. The Sox have a World Series hangover. They had a rugged schedule the first 11 days. They were due for some reality, and Tuesday the Sox told us that Chris Sale had no fastball in Oakland because he was sick. The struggling Sox cannot possibly fall out of contention because everybody in the American League (besides the Astros and Yankees) stinks.

Pay no attention to this early slump, the Sox are going to be OK.

Swell.

But Tuesday’s home opener reopened the vault of suspicion and has us seriously wondering what is going on with the Local Nine. The Red Sox got their 2018 championship rings, celebrated amid an amazing/gaudy assemblage of hardware (10 championship trophies) and star power (Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, and Rob Gronkowski in the same space?), then took the field and produced yet another stinkbomb, this one a 7-5 loss to the tanking Toronto Blue Jays.

Note the use of the royal 'we' and 'us', in a lame effort to take his fingerprints off yet another negative column. The problem, so far - the 2019 Red Sox haven't given him (or should I say 'us'?) to say otherwise.