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There are so many reasons to write letters to the editor these days: the affordability crisis, health care access, endless unnecessary war, climate change, political candidate support (or not), and so on. But this letter is about none of those things. It’s about a topic that seems to get shockingly little coverage in the BDN. It’s about baseball.
To be more specific, it’s about our “home team,” the Boston Red Sox. Here’s a team that at the start of summer was in the absolute gutter. Despite decent pitching and fielding, there were embarrassingly few runs scored, and the losses kept piling up. Betting markets were probably having a ton of fun guessing how deep the team could sink.
Exit manager Alex Cora and several of his staff members, and enter Chad Tracy with a crew of coaches from Boston’s AA and AAA farm system. After a rough start figuring out pitching rotations and effective batting line-ups, and after dealing with an assortment of injuries to key players, Tracy has turned the team around. They now arguably have the best bullpen in major league baseball, fielders who lead the league in game-saving plays, batters who are among the tops in all of baseball for RBIs, multi-base hits, and more. The Cardiac Kids are at it again.
So when we’ve exhausted our emotional and intellectual energy doing what we can about this world of troubles, there is pursuit of one question that can perhaps heal our souls, at least for a while: How about those Red Sox?
Mary Bird
Orono