This is a great question that begs a larger one for each fan. "What about baseball and watching the Red Sox is fun for you?" I'm old enough to remember 1967, and many Baby Boomer Sox fans will tell you it could never be more fun than that year, even if they fell short. But I was a kid, and I didn't know a fraction as much about the game as I would later, and do now. There have been very few times in my life when I couldn't find something enjoyable about watching the Sox. Winning is a lot more fun than losing, obviously, but I've always enjoyed watching younger, homegrown Sox teams that are building toward something. I used to cover the Red Sox' Double A team as a reporter many years ago, so I've always been fascinated by team-building strategies, player development, etc. That's why I prefer the '67, '75, '88, '07 and '18 teams to the others.
Winning is fun. Period. There are refinements on that of course; some varieties of victory are sweeter than others, but in general the principle holds. I'm old enough that the first half of my life as a Red Sox fan was before 2004, and I can definitely say that the past twenty years have been a lot more fun that the twenty before that. So much fun, in fact, that I feel the team has earned my patience. I'm not happy about losing Mookie, but things like that happen in sports. I'm over it, and I'm looking forward to the team building another winner. I was really looking forward to baseball last year, and then the season fell apart. When it finally began, the Sox were awful out of the gate, and you knew that, in such an abbreviated season, there was no way they could right the ship. For me, the lost nature of last season makes my anticipation of this one all the greater. If your teams not winning, you want to feel that they're on their way to winning, and I think this team can deliver that.
I agree, it comes down to winning. No matter how many great characters on the team, if they lose, it's not gonna be fun. What I was trying to get at was what you called the refinements on that. There are some. Some teams are more fun than others, even if they win roughly the same amount. I could get into this more (I did a lot of thinking on it!) at another time if it's relevant to do so. But on the whole, yes, win and you're fun. Lose and you're not. Thanks for reading!
This is a great question that begs a larger one for each fan. "What about baseball and watching the Red Sox is fun for you?" I'm old enough to remember 1967, and many Baby Boomer Sox fans will tell you it could never be more fun than that year, even if they fell short. But I was a kid, and I didn't know a fraction as much about the game as I would later, and do now. There have been very few times in my life when I couldn't find something enjoyable about watching the Sox. Winning is a lot more fun than losing, obviously, but I've always enjoyed watching younger, homegrown Sox teams that are building toward something. I used to cover the Red Sox' Double A team as a reporter many years ago, so I've always been fascinated by team-building strategies, player development, etc. That's why I prefer the '67, '75, '88, '07 and '18 teams to the others.
Winning is fun. Period. There are refinements on that of course; some varieties of victory are sweeter than others, but in general the principle holds. I'm old enough that the first half of my life as a Red Sox fan was before 2004, and I can definitely say that the past twenty years have been a lot more fun that the twenty before that. So much fun, in fact, that I feel the team has earned my patience. I'm not happy about losing Mookie, but things like that happen in sports. I'm over it, and I'm looking forward to the team building another winner. I was really looking forward to baseball last year, and then the season fell apart. When it finally began, the Sox were awful out of the gate, and you knew that, in such an abbreviated season, there was no way they could right the ship. For me, the lost nature of last season makes my anticipation of this one all the greater. If your teams not winning, you want to feel that they're on their way to winning, and I think this team can deliver that.
I agree, it comes down to winning. No matter how many great characters on the team, if they lose, it's not gonna be fun. What I was trying to get at was what you called the refinements on that. There are some. Some teams are more fun than others, even if they win roughly the same amount. I could get into this more (I did a lot of thinking on it!) at another time if it's relevant to do so. But on the whole, yes, win and you're fun. Lose and you're not. Thanks for reading!
Thanks for the reply. And good luck with the site; I'm enjoying it, and I appreciate your insights!
Of course! Glad to chat about the Sox. And thanks for the kind words. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it.