It’s a wonderful life in Red Sox Nation

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty ImagesTonight is the annual viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life at our local independent movie theater, The Grand Illusion Cinema. The place is beloved but this will be the last holiday ritual here because the Grand Illusion is unfortunately losing its lease in February. The future’s unclear; they say they’re going into pop-up mode until they find a new home, but who knows.

Even with this movie on the brain today, it’s too corny even for me to write about imagining a world where…say…Craig Breslow was never born, so he wouldn’t have been able to trade for Garrett Crochet last week, and how sad that would make all of us in Red Sox Nation…or John Henry as…