Oh wait, no I didn’t.

Still, there’s precious little reason to think the Red Sox are going to create much excitement this season.  Mike Napoli and Ryan Dempster and Jonny Gomes may be good players and good guys in the locker room, but they aren’t going to sell tickets and make you turn on NESN.

Jackie Bradley Jr. was going to create the excitement.  Except that Jackie played a bit at the start of the season and proved that he wasn’t quite ready for prime time.  (Oddly, I was right about the new players not selling tickets — the team rarely sold out Fenway.)

Anyway, it’s nice for a championship to come out of nowhere.  And it’s nice to feel that that the ghosts of the past have been completely exorcised.  When Farrell came out to talk to Lackey in the seventh inning and left him in, my Twitter feed exploded with references to Grady Little.  (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you haven’t been a Red Sox fan for long enough.)  But nothing bad happened, the Red Sox won, and the Duck Boats ride again.

Time to change out my header image and return to our regular programming.