It’s time. I know that, no matter how poorly our Sox are doing this year, there is something we always look forward to, with hyena anticipation, with mongoose fury. If you’re like me, if you’re a true Sox fan, you’ve had this circled on your calendar all year. You might have even made a circle on your laptop where you had the schedule pulled up, and it’s just been there, a strange hovering permanent-marker circle, on your screen all year. Because you know what it means: it’s time to play the fucking Rockies!
All week Sox fans have been like, “I don’t care about beating the Cubs as long as we beat the hated Rockies.