Let's Just Revel in the Fact that There is Still Baseball on to Enjoy

After last night's loss to the Orioles it seemed as though the Red Sox faced the fact that we fans faced this past weekend - the chances of the Red Sox going to playoffs are close to nil. I had faced that particular demon after Sunday's loss and went into last night's game feeling oddly liberated, free to just watch the game and enjoy it for the game itself. Let's face it, with only four more weeks of baseball to go now is the time to savor it.

I often think that the team doesn't take it as hard as fans do when they lose (see the scene Fever Pitch touching on this same thing) but it seems as though many of them are taking the end of this season particularly hard, and who can blame them? The fact that they stayed in contention despite the rash of injuries, the unpredictability of both the starting pitching and the bullpen, and the lack of help from the front office to right any of these wrong during the season is nothing short of amazing. No doubt many on the team were hoping some of that amazing would keep on going.

My prescient son told me during Spring Training that he didn't think this was the year for the Red Sox. He predicted that they wouldn't even make the playoffs (I kid you not, he did). I scoffed at him then but I'm not scoffing now. For the record, my son also predicted that next year they would win the World Series. That is a prediction that I can get behind.