Things I’m Thankful For, 2020 Edition

Look, it’s been a pretty shitty year for fans of Red Sox baseball and fans of doing cool shit in general. We can’t cram our asses into Fenway’s narrow seats. We can’t pack into bars to watch games on big screens. We can’t take off our pants and roll around on the sidewalks of Allston (actually, we can do that last one, I just don’t recommend it). And the sad truth is that despite the parade of vaccines promising to bring us back to some sense of “normalcy,” we don’t know when or if we’ll ever get the life we had back. Christ, for all we know, COVIDs 20, 21 and 22 are waiting in the wings, ready to ruin all our Sundays.

But that said, there are still a lot of things to be thankful for. And thinking about them is pretty much the only thing keeping me from a whiskey-induced coma.

So with that, in no particular order, I’m thankful for:

The 2004 Red Sox.

The 2013 Red Sox.

The 2007 Red Sox.

The 2018 Red Sox.

The fact that David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were in the same line-up and we mere mortals got to witness it.

The Jon Lester no-hitter at Fenway.

Every second of games four through seven of the 2004 ALCS.

That John Lackey saved all his magic for October 2013.

That the Indians tried to piss off Josh Beckett in the 2007 ALCS.

That the Red Sox took Mike Lowell’s contract off the Marlins’ books in 2005.

That I was dead-ass wrong that the Red Sox should have never taken Mike Lowell’s contract off the Marlins’ books in 2005.

That I was equally wrong when I tweeted this.

That I was once part of a world where on any summer night that the Sox were playing at Fenway, I could get my ass from my house to Lansdowne in roughly 20 minutes (or three road Buds) and either hang outside and hear the crowd roar or weasel my way inside to the cheap seats. After watching an empty Fenway this season, I’ll never take it for granted again.

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