"If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it"
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The specific intent is provocation with a thesis underneath: markets (and teams) get worse when they overvalue vibes. Fenway, in this framing, isn’t just a ballpark; it’s a narrative factory. The crowd demands familiar heroes, familiar rituals, familiar story arcs. That pressure can nudge front offices toward reputational moves - paying for grit, paying for nostalgia, paying for the player who “fits Boston” - rather than undervalued production. Add the media ecosystem and the feedback loop tightens: every slump becomes a referendum, every roster decision a morality play, every new idea a betrayal of identity.
Subtextually, it’s also a critique of entitlement disguised as loyalty. The people who “watch the games” aren’t innocently consuming; they’re co-authoring expectations that can punish experimentation. Lewis is pointing at the cost of being iconic: the brand becomes a boss. Winning requires cold-blooded choices, but Boston’s baseball culture, at least in the era he’s poking, often preferred catharsis to calculus.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lewis, Michael. (2026, January 16). If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-had-to-point-to-one-thing-that-made-it-99781/
Chicago Style
Lewis, Michael. "If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-had-to-point-to-one-thing-that-made-it-99781/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-had-to-point-to-one-thing-that-made-it-99781/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
