in light of Mookie Betts choosing L.A., they discuss an important topic that is gaining relevance: why is Boston becoming more unappealing to star athletes?
There were no analytics for what Mookie Betts did on third base last night. The player just played. We’ll never know what might have happened if Blake Snell were just allowed to pitch.
Meanwhile, Betts is now 2-for-14 in the NLCS (a .143 average). This postseason, in 40 plate appearances including 33 official at-bats, he has no home runs. The Dodgers have hit nine home runs in their current series and 11 in the postseason overall – but the man who tied teammate A.J. Pollock for the team lead with 16 during the regular season does not have a single one of them.
Is Bloom the next Epstein – or at least something far closer to it than Ben Cherington or Dave Dombrowski? Maybe. Let’s hope so. Because while the Red Sox actually have won one more title than Epstein since his departure, they’ve lived an elevator existence that has brought their fan base to the exhaustive point of emotional detachment. At the end of the day, they’re just getting too hard to live with anymore.
Four of the last six World Series have gone the distance, proving that the Fall Classic is the most competitive best-of-seven championship round in American sports.
98.5 The Sports Hub is all over the parade route in Boston. Members of The Hub Crew will be walking up and down Boylston Street handing out free rally cards.
