{"id":665941,"date":"2026-04-06T05:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:54:31","slug":"tom-carons-football-analogy-might-ease-minds-of-panicking-red-sox-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665941\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Caron’s Football Analogy Might Ease Minds Of Panicking Red Sox Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Red Sox<\/a> were unable to pull off the Easter Sunday comeback and beat the San Diego Padres on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Red Sox struck first, scoring four runs in the third inning. When San Diego responded with back-to-back three-run innings, the Red Sox bats came to life once again, tying it up in the seventh. The Padres finished strong and made the Red Sox the losers of all three of their season series to start the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vibes are low among Red Sox fans after falling to 2-7 on the season, but legendary Boston personality Tom Caron used this football analogy to put it in perspective.<\/p>\n

In terms of a football season, the Red Sox are 0-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Major League Baseball season is 162 games. They play 17 in the NFL. With the Red Sox finishing up game number nine, they are about 1\/17th of the way through their season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Caron said, in this analogy, the Red Sox are 0-1. The legend said they got \u201cblown out\u201d in Week 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a long season. Boston fans will remember watching head coach Mike Vrabel\u2019s New England Patriots lose at Gillette Stadium in Week 1 to what would become the worst team in football, the Las Vegas Raiders. Everyone knows how that season ended.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to be discouraged with the 2-7 start. But seeing the bats come to life at Fenway Park was enough to get me excited to see more from this Red Sox team.<\/p>\n

More MLB:\u00a0Roman Anthony Has Harsh Assessment Of Red Sox 2-7 Start<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox were unable to pull off the Easter Sunday comeback and beat the San Diego…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-665941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356216715564546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}