When you cover a popular team for a half century and spend a few days with them at spring training, folks back home in New England regularly ask, “What do you think of the Sox this year?”
I feel strongly both ways.
This weak phrase was a late-20th century ad campaign for Miller Lite Beer (“Tastes great” or “Less Filling”?), and it’s a common refrain for fence-straddlers and flip-flopping political candidates.
That’s me with the Alex Cora Athletic Club (ACAC) of 2026.
And, like many of you, I have my doubts.
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