After a year, the Red Sox finally start telling the truth

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesIt would be easy to sit here and make fun of how defensive and slippery Red Sox President and CEO Sam Kennedy was in a recent interview with the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy... and that’s exactly why I will do it. Low-hanging fruit is just as tasty as the hard-to-get stuff, after all.

Long story short: Kennedy is fed up with the haters. The way he looks at it, the 2018 title run came at a price that the organization is still paying, and the 2021 team reflects that debt. This sounds reasonable until you jump into the specifics, which paint a different picture:

“We cherish that title, and all of them, but the way we built that team came at a price, which included…