Self-serving front-page fare considering the Globe heavily advertises and brings you the Sawx and even sponsors the pregame show.
"With the Red Sox starting the new season Thursday against the Detroit Tigers, many fans have tempered expectations, a sharp contrast to last year’s runaway optimism. Always a combustible mix of faith and fatalism, devotion and despair, Red Sox followers say they are taking a wary stance this season, a calculated nonchalance to brace themselves for disappointment....
I know the feeling; happens every morning when I get a Globe.
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Just don't look for them in your lying, agenda-pushing, war-promoting paper, folks.