Red Sox Hype Is At An All-Time Low In Boston, Fans Can't Even Name The Players
The Boston Red Sox are down bad.
In less than a week, the Sox will open their season in prime time on MLB Network against the Seattle Mariners — yet their fans seem to be blissfully unaware that Opening Day is upon us. So NBC10 Boston sent reporter Mary Markos to Fenway Park to "find out if anyone cares."
Spoiler alert: They don't.
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Markos asked Boston locals if they could name any current Red Sox players. And the answers were …concerning.
"Current? [Rafael] Devers. That’s probably it," one man responded.
"When I was a kid, it was must-see TV when Pedro Martinez was pitching," said another.
Martinez last played for Boston 20 years ago.
"Damn, I’m blanking right now!" one interviewee said.
"Usually other years I kind of hear about it or people are talking about it," a woman answered. "But this year, I didn’t even know that they were starting. I had no idea."
Red Sox Fans Don't Care About The Red Sox
Local reporter John Tomase put the blame on the Red Sox ownership group, noting that they "haven’t spent money to put a representative team on the field, and that’s how you wind up with this sort of apathy that we’re talking about a week or two ahead of Opening Day."
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Imagine showing this segment to a baseball fan in 2004 — when the World-Series-winning roster was packed and stacked with stars like Martinez, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Tim Wakefield, Johnny Damon, Kevin Youkilis, Curt Schilling, Dave Roberts and Jason Varitek.
Those days are long gone.
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The good news for fans, though, is the tickets are a whole lot cheaper than they were in the glory days. Markos noted that 2024 bleacher seats are going on the secondary market for as little as $11.
Makes for a cheap date night if the Celtics and Bruins are out of town.