The broadest revelation in “The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox,” Netflix’s outstanding, almost all-access series on the 2024 ball club that premieres Tuesday, is this:
The loudest beer-fueled leather-lung in the Fenway bleachers is not nearly as hard on Red Sox players as many are on themselves.
Those players, fluctuating between elite-athlete confidence and paralyzing self-doubt depending upon how they fared in their last at-bat or half-inning, curse at and insult themselves much more.
From our couches and box seats, it’s easy to envy ballplayers — the fame, the money, the Little League dreams come true for the gifted and fortunate few.