Eric Wilbur takes stock of the city’s last decade in sports:
This was the fifth year in the past decade in which Boston didn’t claim a championship.
Bummer.
It began with heartbreak in Indianapolis, where the Patriots choked away their second-straight Super Bowl. It didn’t get any better for the Bruins in April, when the defending Stanley Cup champs lost in seven games to the Washington Capitals in their first-round playoff matchup. A few weeks later, the Celtics gagged against LeBron James and the Heat, who went on to win the NBA title. Meanwhile, the Bobby Valentine experiment tossed one of Major League Baseball’s most storied franchises into new levels of embarrassment.
By all accounts, it was not a banner year for Boston sports.
The Cannons lost their only playoff game. The Revolution stunk.
Mike Napoli came and went. We think.
Maybe.
They cheered in Manhattan, San Francisco, Miami, and… at some point, Los Angeles. In Boston, there was little but angst and disappointment. The Celtics are an enigma, the Red Sox are in total disarray, and the Bruins are mixed in a web of greed that could ultimately ruin the NHL.