"Nothing can help this pain—it’s as if the World Championships of 2004 and 2007 no longer quite mattered…"
— Sorry, Roger Angell, I absolutely love your writing, but this is some bullshit right here. Ask any Cubs fan - especially those of us who’ve re-opened all kinds of wounds with ESPN airing “Catching Hell” this week - if they’d take a collapse like the one your Red Sox just suffered through in exchange for two World Series titles in four years. How do you think we’d answer?
