COMMENTARY
It’s football season now, a moment of clarity when the baseball diehard realizes more people watched that series of ads where Peyton Manning flew a baguette than will watch any World Series game.
Practically, this doesn’t matter much outside of meaning MLB won’t stop trying to appropriate NFL things — Schedule reveals! Draft combines! — any time soon. Plenty of things survive without being the most popular thing.
It also means the 2023 Red Sox can quietly fade into the obscurity their too-thin rotation and abysmal defense have earned them.