In the last post I wrote how 2020, even just a few days into the year, sucked. A month later and it sucks even worse.

Thank you Boston Red Sox for that. First the Patriots, then the Sox. What’s next? Well, there is the thought of another term for our morally blighted and administratively corrupt president. But let’s go there for the moment.

No, the Red Sox will do right now. They traded Mookie Betts to the LA Dodgers. Yep, they traded away the second best player in all of Major League Baseball. They traded away potentially the best player the Sox have ever had since Ted Williams. With one swift move they became the cheap Sox who couldn’t care less about their fans and the reputation of the team. With that one move they assured fans they won’t be attempting to get to the playoffs this season. That they post no threat to the Yankees. Or to much of anyone else in MLB who isn’t trying to tank in 2020.

So as not to be totally bleak about this trade, let’s recognize that there is some good news buried in this. Oops, I should mention that the good news is only for the ownership of the Red Sox, who can now manage to squirm under baseball’s luxury tax. And thank goodness for that; they can now save millions of dollars while watching Mookie lead the Dodgers to the World Series.

And one more piece of good news: the Sox won’t have to worry about possibly facing Mookie and the Dodgers in the WS. Not to worry – they’ll be nowhere near the series in 2020.

And yes, there’s another pot at the end of this god-awful rainbow: after the season is over they can always join in the bidding for Mookie and perhaps win him back to the team.

OK, I think I’ve run out of good news. All I can reasonably see is a season filled with Alex Verdugo in right field, a short-staffed pitching crew and the pleasures of watching two young stars, Bogaerts and Devers.

Maybe I’m wrong. I sure wish I was. I sure wish we still had Mookie.