Two World Series wins in three years. Yea, that’s a great achievement, I’ll give them that one. But to say that the Red Sox are a dynasty… no. Just no. The Yankees of the late 30s and the early 50s were both dynasties. Then of course you have the Bombers dynasty of the late 90s, with 4 World Series’ in 5 years were a dynasty. The A’s of the early 1910s and early 70s were both dynasties. Heck, even the Red Sox had one during the early/mid 1910s. But the current Red Sox don’t have one, at least not yet. Winning 2 World Series in a span of three years does not give you that right. Boston didn’t even win the division all of those years. If you counted the current team as a dynasty simply based on winning 2 World Series in 3 years then there would be a cohort of dynasties in baseball history including teams like the 1992-1993 Blue Jays.
I know there is no formula for deciding whether or not a team is a dynasty, but you have to look at the facts. The Red Sox have not dominated the sport compared to what most baseball historians would agree are the real dynasties. They have not been able to win consecutive division titles, let alone pennants and they have not been the “shoe-in” team. They haven’t even been called the team to beat at the beginning of a season until this year. I am sure it is exciting to finally be winning after almost 100 years, but Red Sox fans must think of it practically. Ok, say they win one or two more championships and they continue to win the division (god forbid both), then they may start talking about a dynasty. But after winning two World Series’ and not even being the dominant team throughout all of those seasons, the word shouldn’t even be uttered.
It took some teeth grinding to admit that the last 3 years were a great achievement, but I had to do it to get the point across. Hopefully this will shut up some of those BoSox clowns fans. The bottom line is: the current Red Sox are NOT a dynasty.
I am a Red Sox fan and I agree with you. Dynasty is a word that describes a team that has accomplished things above and beyond what most teams can only dream of. The run the Red Sox are experiencing is great but not worthy of the word Dynasty. Yet. Now the Patriots you could argue were/are a Dynasty. Had they not lost to the Giants they would have been a lock. But, they did lose so that too could probably be argued.
Good to hear you agree; I was just annoyed when I heard something about the Red Sox being a dynasty the other day, hence this post.
I would also argue that the Patriots aren’t a dynasty (go Jets! [maybe I should say go Giants! instead]), but I do understand why some people would think they are due to their almost constant dominance so far this decade.