Boston sports fans and scribes have long held the rep to be knowledgeable and wise, even “smartest”. It was a hard earned distinction borne from the agony of defeat, which then lead to careful, reasoned off-season scrutiny by MIT seamheads, among other local geniuses-also know as “Hot Stove”. Yet two recent World Series wins have created an entitled, slightly inebrieted class of obnoxious new fans and scribes that howl at the moon after every loss, demand that this and that player/manager be shipped out regardless of yesterday’s heroics; they behave, frankly, like entitled Yankee fans. Stocks don’t always go up. That’s a free market for ya, and you can’t buy or demand championships, because it’s just a game. To quote the great Dominican philosopher Aristedes, “It’s not the end of the world.” So stay loose, and stay on the ball.

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