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The Resurgent Red Sox

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Hopefully I'm not speaking too soon in a long 162 game season where anything can happen, but the Boston Red Sox are currently leading the Majors in wins and are playing like legitimate contenders. The Sox have certainly turned a new leaf from their dismal and embarrassing 2012 season, one in which they finished with a record of 69 wins and 93 losses. The 2012 campaign marked the first season since 1997 that the boys from Boston had finished the season with a losing record. The Sox are three seasons removed from making the playoffs, something they are not accustomed to in recent years. However, one doesn't have to look back too far to remember years (and decades) of futility and heartbreak for Sox fans. They've had their share of setbacks, one coming in recent years... BoSox fans are only two years removed from witnessing one of the more memorable collapses whereby the Sox lost 18 of their final 24 games and lost their postseason birth on the final day of the season to th