Kiss Today Goodbye.

After the shock of 2011 and the allegations of laziness and drug abuse and the team being composed of nasty, horrible people, I really thought that 2012 was going to be a banner year for the Boston Red Sox.

I thought that they were going to be a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, grow-a-chip-on-your-shoulder kind of group. I thought that they were going to band together and put the past in the past. I was even prepared to like Bobby Valentine. But they were horrible. They were fractious and petty and just bad at baseball. By they end of the year, the only likeable people left on the team were David, Clay, and Vicente Padilla-made likeable by the fact that they showed up at Johnny Pesky's funeral. They rest of them were selfish, whiny, overgrown children.

I wasn't prepared to like the 2013 team.  I was, in fact, ready to step back from the whole thing. They weren't much to look at and I really didn't think that they were going to do much. If they finished above five hundred, it would have been a miracle. But they came in like a breath of fresh air. They seemed to enjoy the game and their enthusiasm was infectious. Granted, it took me awhile to trust them but they made baseball fun again. And I'm grateful.

There's hope in baseball again and you've gotta have hope. As much as I hate hope because hope is behind so many broken hearts, it's a beautiful thing.

Tomorrow is 2014 and with it six-ish weeks until baseball starts again. Can they do it again? Is that magical year a once in a lifetime sort of occurrence? (Can everything go wrong for the Yankees again? Please?) It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility for them to be successful. To this point, nobody in the division has improved by leaps and bounds.  Only one way to find out.