The past four years numbed the shock of once contentious rivals joining a Boston team. Kyrie Irving in green? Ask me in 2016-17 and I would say it’ll never happen.
David Ortiz mashed David Price in a 2013 ALDS game, causing Price to plunk him next season after Tampa got swept. Fast forward half a decade. Imagine Price would later fight Dennis Eckersley and lose Yankee games with Boston, win a World Series, then fight Eckersley and lose to the Yankees some more. False presumptions open the mind to new possibilities.