Netflix Is Doing A Season-long "Hard Knocks" Docuseries About The Shitty 2024 Red Sox

The Red Sox are a mess. They've gone 78-84 and finished in last place each of the past two seasons and are about to have yet another losing season. This will be the first time the Red Sox have had three losing seasons in a row since 1964-66. Fans finally seem to be getting very upset and even booed John Henry and Sox leadership at a recent fan event.

They should boo them. As bad as the team has been, they've somehow gotten worse in this off-season. They've lost Justin Turner, Alex Verdugo, Chris Sale and James Paxton and replaced them with Tyler O'Neill, Vaughn Grissom and Lucas Giolito. I do like the Sale/Grissom trade for the Red Sox because they should be in a rebuilding mode. But ownership doesn't have the courage to commit to a true teardown so they remain in sports purgatory while the fans reach for fire and brimstones.

Part of me is interested in seeing this docuseries when it is released in 2025. In some ways, it's more interesting following a lousy team than a good one. But I have to question what Netflix is thinking. Are the Red Sox the only major market team that was wiling to give this much access? Why else would Netfix choose such a boring team to follow for an entire season? It's team that outside of Rafael Devers and maybe Kenley Jansen has no stars. Trevor Story has made a couple All-Star teams but he's nowhere near the player he used to be. Tristan Casas and Brayan Bello are interesting young players but what are we doing here?

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Fenway Sports Group just brought Theo Epstein back in the fold but his job duties seem unclear. He'll be helping with Liverpool and the Penguins as well as the Red Sox? Nothing this ownership has done since trading Mookie Betts has made any sense. This is a franchise that has pissed off an entire fan base that was so loyal that it took multiple seasons of losing to have them turn on you. I wrote blogs last year about how bad the Sox pitching staff was going to be and fans came out of the woodwork to defend them. Congratulations John Henry. You've been such a shitty owner that you even made delusional people see reality.

So now Netflix partners up with the Red Sox in hopes of latching on to Red Sox Nation but that is a nation that is in shambles. I'll be watching this when it premieres next year but with the same mindset I did when I used to watch The Magic Hour in the late 90's. Sometimes it's fun watching a disaster.