The Boston Red Sox are seeking their path to the ultimate baseball Nirvana, called, “sustainability”. Meditate on this. Breath in – breath out. Relax. All will be well… in la-la land.
The Red Sox enter 2021 spring training with a squad that’s let’s say, uninspiring, to say the least. Their most exciting signing in the offseason was, well … actually, there was no exciting signing. Yet the flowers bloom in the Bosox camp in any event.
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Boston Red Sox Head of Baseball Operations, Chaim Bloom touched upon this idea of sustainability.
"“I would love to get to the end of this year and be able to look and see that next core that is going to be the center of a sustainable championship contender, and to see that core taking shape,” he said."
Ah yes, a “sustainable championship contender”. The catchword of the 2000s, but the flat word of the 2020s. Core taking shape? Translation: It’s a long way to the top. Hope we get a little bit better than last season’s bottom of the AFC East debacle. So, what is this really all about?
Is this a big joke that is being played on Red Sox Nation to try to lull them to sleep as the team goes into deep, deep hibernation beneath the Bronx Bashers; the Tampa Bay Rays; the Blue Jays; and, even the lowly Bawlimer O’s? Hope not, but it sure looks that way.
When you hear “sustainable”, immediately think, not today. Because that’s what it really means. It means that this club is either not capable or not willing to expend the funds necessary to keep this Big Market team where it should be.
Luxury tax or no luxury tax. That’s at the top of the American League East, Bronx Bonkers or no Bronx Bonkers.
Dave Dombrowski did the job for the Boston Red Sox
Oh my, what a shock for Mr. Bloom. Indeed, Boston Red Sox fans should feel bad for Mr. Bloom who is tasked with rescuing a highly overpaid, older Red Sox team from the club’s previous supposedly “profligate” former Head of Baseball Operations.
The aspersions cast upon that former President of Baseball Operations, Dave Dombrowski are scurrilous. Foolish. Ludicrous. What else, oh yes, laughable.
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It seems that that exact result hoped for, longed for, and certainly dreamed for Red Sox faithful, Nation, winning an MLB Championship in 2018, was indeed achieved in 2018. or was that just a dream? Dombroski put that team together. He did what he had to do, to win the big prize. And did.
Yet, how quickly fickle Red Sox fans easily turned on the architect of a World Series winner, an aspiration hoped for those 86 years before the breakthrough in 2004.
Then, a year later it was all about luxury taxes owed, how he depleted the farm system and paid bloated salaries for declining players. What a complete joke.
Boston won another championship and three AL East titles. Not shabby. Not too shabby at all.
Wasn’t that the objective? But soon enough after the title-winning season, Dombrowski was fired. One bad season and out.
The Boston Red Sox have lost their way.
But, here we are in 2021, Bloom in control, and the word of the hour is now “sustainable”. The question is, “sustainable what?” Looks like it means the goal is sustainable mediocrity if the club can get up to that level. Right now, they seem to be looking a long way up to mediocrity.
With the magnificent additions to this Red Sox Club (lots of utility men, that will be useful), all that seems to be sustainable will be their last-place finish of 2020. That looks very, very sustainable.
Yet, maybe lightning will strike and they actually will be not only “sustainable” but dare we hope, competitive? Let’s see how it goes. After all, that’s why they play the games.
But don’t expect too much from this club and you won’t be too disappointed. When the Yankees trade with Boston it says a lot. For the Yankees it says, we don’t even worry about that club anymore. Maybe that’s the worst insult of all. Irrelevancy.
Like Rodney Dangerfield, one of the most outstanding comedians of his time used to say, “I don’t get no respect. No respect at all.” That’s where the current version of the Boston Red Sox finds itself now.
The quest for “sustainability” should be changed to a quest for “respect-ability”. Evidently, even the arch-enemy doesn’t have any respect for the Red Sox anymore. How far the mighty have fallen.
That’s why the Red Sox ownership group should sell the team It’s time. Then they can devote full time to their English Football team, Liverpool, and let someone else fix the Red Sox.