Optimism has not been easy to come by so far this season. For most of the year things have been frustrating, depressing and a little perplexing, but I’m still nowhere near ready to do anything that even closely resembles giving up on almost the same Red Sox roster that is just seven months removed from winning a championship.
We were a little spoiled with a 17-2 start one year ago that led to 112 more wins and that monstrosity of a World Series ring, so the 6-13 start to this season felt like a bit of a gut punch.