COMMENTARY
What will be your lasting memory of the 2020 Boston Red Sox? It’s easy to say, the final game of a 24-36 slog fresh, that you won’t have one God willing. They are a team, existing in a larger world, begging to be upcycled into scar tissue.
The answer has to do with how you view the world, with who you are, but even more to do with who they are.
“Look, we have a plan,” Red Sox president Sam Kennedy told the Globe on July 23, when asked on the eve of the opener about Mookie Betts signing a 12-year contract with the Dodgers that will all but render Boston a footnote should he become the Hall of Famer he appears.