Last Friday morning, a full three and a half days after the brutal Game Four ALDS loss and well after the raw sadness of defeat was, I thought, behind me, I found myself sobbing in a dog park.
I had queued up a nerdy, non-baseball podcast (on foreign policy, about as far from baseball as you can get) and set out with my dog for our daily stroll. Catching up on world events seemed like a good way to rejoin the wider world after a week of intense baseball focus. Well wouldn’t you know that the podcast host happened to be a New England native?