The Red Sox have had collapses before...1978, 1986, 2003...everyone has their fondest/darkest memories of the Olde Towne Team taking it on the chin.
But, I will submit, that the Boston Red Sox Collapse of 2011 is the most monumental.
Why is it so monumental? Because of the expectations coming into the season and the lead the team built up going into September and the rancid play of the team and personnel decisions of management.
I'll be expounding more as I sober up, but I'd love to get your comments and thoughts on the reasons for this collapse.
Then, in a couple of months, once the dust has settled, what needs to be done to correct the team as constituted so it does not happen in 2012.
It kind of made me nostalgic. Like being a Red Sox fan for the first 30 years of my life. Expect the worst and be amazed that your imagination didn't conceive of how impressively badly it could go.
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