On This Day, We Give Thanks

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I’d like to use this space today to give thanks for what we have, and for what we don’t.

• I’m thankful we have the Red Sox, without which our summers might be more peaceful, but certainly more empty as well.

• I’m thankful we don’t have a multi-decade championship drought to brag about.

• I’m thankful we have the PawSox, Rox, Pride, Cape League, and myriad other sources of quality baseball that prove a good time can be had away from Fenway Park.

• I’m thankful we don’t have stadium issues that could leave Fenway as empty as Dolphins Stadium may be in July 2009.
  

• I’m thankful that major league baseball and the player’s association were able to agree on a policy to take drugs out of our game.

• I’m thankful we don’t have Congressional legislation to do the same.

• I’m thankful that the Sox have rebuilt their farm system to the point where prospects can be summoned to help the big-league team (e.g., Papelbon) and used to trade for established talent (e.g., Beckett, apparently).

• I’m thankful the Sox don’t have a general manager, a first baseman, possibly a left- and center-fielder, and a reliable closer – for it they did, what would we possibly have to complain about?

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!