Sadly, I hope they bottom out and send this ownership team a message. Don't take the fans for granted.
What about not taking the team for granted? They have a bunch of young players that could be exciting, such as Casas, Bello, Rafaela, and Duran. They have played one game and people want to boycott the team already?!?
I watched last night. It was an entertaining product.
Some of us want to boycott because of management's attitude and approach over the last five years, which has basically been to cheap out for the most part (except for Devers and Story) and wait for the next core group to develop. Even though the Sox had an awesome core group a few years ago in Betts, Bogaerts, and Devers and decided to keep only one of those guys. In the last two seasons, the Sox were doing fairly well in the first half of the season, yet the team did next to nothing at the deadline those two seasons, basically signaling to the players and the fans that they weren't really interested in competing anytime soon. Yes, they have some good young players now, but not nearly enough to field a solid playoff-caliber team, especially when it comes to the pitching staff, which is piecemeal and mediocre. They looked pretty good last night, yes, but tonight they're getting skunked through six. Seeing young players develop brings a certain type of enjoyment, but for those of us who want to see winning baseball—a team worthy of Boston's place in baseball history as one of its more successful franchises—we don't want to see bridge/rebuilding periods last more than few years, and we're now on year six.