Las Vegas Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels calls a play during the second half of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)
The Red Sox pulled away last season, 78-84, last in the AL East and 23 games behind the first-place Orioles.The team’s biggest free agent signing this offseason, Lucas Giolito, who signed a two-year contract worth about $38 million, could miss the entire season with an elbow injury.\ nThe week before MLB Opening Day, the NBC affiliate in Boston did an entire segment about how nobody cares.Introducing segment, the anchor said that “nobody’s talking about the Red Sox” and that reporter Mary Markos was around Fenway. “Find out if anybody cares.”.
Boston isn’t exactly excited about the return of the Red Sox.”Not only are they aware of Opening Day, but many of them can’t even name a current Red Sox player,” Markos said soberly.The woman interviewed in the first video of a young man could not name someone, then the young man asked: “Now? [Raphael] Devers. That’s probably all.”Samantha Perez, described in the Chiron as a Fenway resident, said: “Usually I hear about it every other year or people talk about it. But this year I didn’t even know they were starting. I had no idea.”Local sports journalist John Tomase blamed the ownership group led by John Henry, noting that they “didn’t spend the money to get a representative team on the field and that’s how you get such apathy, we’re talking a week or two before Opening Day.
