That's not to say the season's over, although it's understandable if you're already thinking toward 2016. From my perspective, there are 100 games remaining after tonight's game in Pittsburgh, this whole season is backwards, and I've seen enough bloggers make sweeping declarations that haunt them for years to know I'd rather limit my inevitable wrongness. I can wait until the trade deadline to make that call. There's no rush.
But the Sox have provided no real reason to believe they're better than a slightly under .500 team.
They already negated one six-game winning streak by going 1-7 over the following eight games.