The Curtain Falls

Where will the Red Sox now spend their autumn and their winter? Movies, TV, travel, helping Elizabeth Warren attempting to unseat Scott Brown? Soliciting funds for Sen. Kerry, listening to talk radio, reading The Globe and hoping their names do not appear in the trade rumors? Drinking? Will there be a formal funeral in Boston to bury this team? All that optimism of last spring now gone! All the pleasure of 2004 and 2007 and its resultant hubris now a distant memory...sullied by one of the worst September performances in the entire history of baseball. If only Simon and Garfunkel had written 'Where have you gone Ted Williams' this indignity might not have occurred. But not all is lost. Boston has a new sister city in Atlanta...Logan to Hartsfield if you want a non-stop to watch baseball being played at a credible level in the spring and mid-summer. Caution: avoid this flight in September: safety problems.

On the other hand, spring baseball and its attendant optimism is only five months from now. Who knows, Theo Epstein might just be able to tempt Jose Reyes to join Crawford for another $120 million or so. Who knows? Meanwhile, kick back and enjoy the ride as the heroes from the big ballpark in The Bronx pursue number 28.

Finally, Red Sox supporters should know that they will be back for another try before the clock expires on the BHO regime. That's not much but it's something.