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All right. Welcome back to breaking balls. I'd love to tell you I have great news to report,

but I don't. The Red Sox still plotting along without much direction,

without much traction, hard to really sink your teeth into the idea that they're going to be

a good baseball team this year. But we'll get to something later on that actually might

suggest some reason for optimism. It has very little to do with the Red Sox, but we'll get to that

momentarily. Let me start with the Boston offense, because as long as I have been alive,

the one thing the Red Sox have generally been able to do is hit, always. That was true in the 70s.

It was true for much or some of the 80s. The late 80s got a little

thin there, which I'll explain here in a second. But then Mo Vaughan came into the 90s. Pedro Martinez

arrived shortly thereafter. Obviously, he's a pitcher. But you get the idea that there was generally over

the course of their history

that Red Sox have produced offense. The fact that this team is as inept as it has been

offensively is really kind of staggering and flies in the face of everything the Red Sox have

been over the course of their modern history. So I don't need to tell you from Ted Williams to Yaz to Rice.

They've had hitters in the middle of their lineup that have been elite and have allowed

them to build around those guys and put an entertaining competitive team on the field,

at least from an offensive standpoint.

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