My feelings are getting into a number of instructions at this level within the 2025 season. I’m nonetheless unhappy over the Red Sox early exit from the playoffs; I actually believed that we’d a minimum of take the Yankees down. I don’t really feel the extreme bitterness of, say, 2003—I’m simply unhappy. Saturday’s Toronto/New York ALDS sport gave me a significant case of the side-eyes too; why couldn’t we get it collectively to attain a bunch of runs towards Yankee pitching?!
Dammit, offense, the place had been you?
However I’m additionally genuinely comfortable for what the Pink Sox gave us this season. There have been highs and lows (understatement!) however we had extra to root for than at any time within the final 4 years.
By way of the remainder of the postseason, I proceed to have pores and skin within the sport, so there’s nonetheless loads of hope and pleasure.
The Cubs are a family legacy team. Not solely did I spend time in Chicago each summer season of my childhood to go to my aunt, my mother’s twin, however I additionally lived there for a few years proper after faculty. I don’t even know if my first baseball sport was at Fenway or Wrigley. Once I wasn’t within the park, I liked to look down from the rooftop of my aunt and uncle’s house constructing and into Wrigley Subject. Lest you suppose this was Wrigleyville, simply on the fringe of the ballpark—no. This was over a mile away, on prime of a constructing that was greater than ten occasions taller than any in my small New England city. However I believed I might peer down into Wrigley, excessive above proper discipline as I used to be, and see the sport. My creativeness spun up a sport narrative, and the faint crowd noise helped me fill in some blanks.
The Cubs had been thrilling within the Wild Card spherical—and my uncle would love this playoff run if he had been right here to see it—however I needed to flip off Saturday’s tepid NLDS efficiency. I hope Chicago can get it again.
Now I stay in Seattle, a playoff city this 12 months. That’s not typical, after all, however the entire metropolis has been abuzz with baseball all season lengthy. Cal Raleigh has been Seattle’s Roman Anthony (engine of the offense), Mickey Mantle (highly effective switch-hitter), Johnny Bench (do-everything catcher), Babe Ruth (60 HR), Shohei Ohtani (favourite participant), and extra. In my expertise right here, lots of people surrender shortly on the Mariners, as early as the start of Could. Some would possibly argue that the Mariners have given up shortly on the followers, I don’t know. I do know that possibly Chicago and Seattle, PCA and Cal Raleigh, regardless of their respective Sport 1 Division Sequence losses, can do what the Pink Sox and Roman Anthony couldn’t this 12 months.
We are able to console ourselves, realizing {that a} wholesome Anthony and the Sox shall be again within the spring. There shall be an low season of plans and choices, with loads of time to determine shore up our roster and are available again stronger. And we are going to.
There’s nonetheless extra baseball in my coronary heart for 2025, however preserve a watch the Pink Sox in 2026.
