Dan Shaugnessy must be in heaven, leaping out of bed every morning with a broad smile on his face, eager to greet another day, knowing the Red Sox are well out of first place. His column today asks: "At what point, precisely, are we allowed to wonder whether these Red Sox are OK?"
Dan is not actually asking permission to wonder about the 2019 Red Sox - or even asking a question, really. Because Dan spends 25 hours a day looking for reasons why the Red Sox might not be OK, or figuring out how to twist reality into complicated knots to make it seem like they are not OK.