Much Like The Boston Globe, Then

Fresh off of burying the 2020 Boston Celtics, Shank sets his sights on the basement dwelling 2020 Boston Red Sox:

You know things are bad when the Red Sox are irrelevant

John Henry, Tom Werner, Sam Kennedy, and Chaim Bloom did the impossible this summer: The custodians of Boston’s once-beloved baseball franchise made the Red Sox disappear — not an easy trick considering the ballclub’s 120 years of institutional relevance.

The disappearance of the Red Sox had little to do with the coronavirus.

I'm not so sure about that. There were a lot of things that were thrown into kilter with the Wuhan virus, and spring training preparation, among other things, would suffer as a result. Granted the pitching staff looks like a complete shitshow but I'm not certain if that can be attributed strictly to poor GM decisions.

In some weird ways, COVID-19 probably helped the Red Sox. The pandemic allowed the Red Sox to give up on a season without hearing a single boo at Fenway Park. The Sox were allowed to tank in almost total anonymity. They were the falling tree in the proverbial forest; if a team tries to lose games in an empty ballpark with hardly anyone watching on TV . . . does it make a sound? Did it really happen?

Shank goes on from there to make his case, which is good to solid. Read on for more tales of the HMS Titantic 2020 Red Sox, or what's left of them.