It’s obviously too early to question Alex Cora’s spring training strategy

Red Sox fans have a reputation for passion, to put it in the nicest possible terms. They also have a reputation for overreacting to every little event over the course of a long, 162-game season, to put it a little less nicely. For the most part, the reputation is probably warranted, though I think it has more to do with volume than anything else. Every fan base is irrational — that’s part of being a fan — there are just more Red Sox fans. With the team off to a shockingly slow start, the easy joke is that fans are panicking and the sky is falling. Perhaps in my old age I’ve just learned to avoid the fringe, but I don’t see that being the case. Instead, it seems that people are confusing panic that the blue above us is coming down on our heads with general frustration with watching bad baseball. I mean, how could you not be actively and viscerally frustrated watching those first five games, ya know?

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