Although the Red Sox are stacked with a lot of high priced talent, and are favored to win this year, it is still a precarious business. Volcanic ash clouds? No. All it would take at this point in the season, is a ten-day losing streak for panic to break out in the streets. Less than a fortnight. Imagine the mighty Red Sox with a 4-17 record on April 27th. Fury! Republican Tea Partiers have nothin’ on an angry Boston sports mob-the original tea partiers. Monday-morning quarterbacks? How about Sunday and every-other-morning of the week quarterbacking. Hostility, tension and criticism dog the team in the best of times. Players like Big Papi don’t so much earn their millions on the field anymore, as much as they earn it off the field where they endure an endless, withering assault on their, ahem, brand.

Yes, there are plenty of optimists out there, but will people pay $200 & $300 a seat to watch a losing team?

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