The 2015 baseball season is nearly 40% over for the Red Sox and they are now 10 games below .500 a full 8 games behind the MFY. They’ve lost 6 games in a row and so far for the month of June they are 4 & 8. In spite of this Baseball Prospectus still gives them a 14.1% chance of making the playoffs (this was before today’s loss.)
Today’s game was a fine example of the way things are going, in the bottom of the 5th the FRS scored 5 runs, which would have been great, but at the time Toronto was leading 10-zip. Yesterday they were down 4 to 0 before they got on the scoreboard, they did manage to tie it, only to lose in the 11th inning. Friday’s game was almost as bad as today’s game as they lost 13-10 after leading at one point 8 to 1.
Yet still I watch. Part of it is I can’t help it, it is nurture, my mom made me this way. The other is I’m going to get my money’s worth, I paid $130 for the MLB.TV package, so if I don’t tune in I’m throwing away 80¢ a game.