He thought he could steal the win.

As a Red Sox fan...I have to agree.

“Nothing in the stats indicated that the Red Sox were a 108 win team.”

I’m game. Why?

“Boston has definitely benefited from some luck.”

I want to believe this so badly.

“But his WAR tells you they could pull a guy up from AAA and he would (theoretically) be better.”

I went to bed in the 5th inning...

Nah

Holy shit. I moved out of state in 2015. This really happened? Ell oh fucking ell.

Truly the darkest timeline.

That’s some delicious schadenfreude.

Schilling’s the reason the Paw Sox are leaving!!

Keith Foulke was kind of a dick. But at least he usually kept it to himself.

I’m glad I don’t understand any of these references.

2004 people throwing a pitch at once? Will they fit?

“Obviously I’d be fine with it since he asked me if he could follow me, and I said yes.”

That’s very well reasoned, and I think a good way to explain it to some who, like Megan Kelley, just wants to be obtuse about the whole thing.

As parallel thought experiment, how would you feel if you had a beat cop following you, specifically you, everywhere you walked, or a cop car trailing you everywhere you drove, for three years? Would that be okay?