As of right this minute, the Boston Red Sox are still the defending World Champions.
Just want to point out that after a year that has been disappointing in many ways, that is still a fact.
To me it seems like this 2018 team never really got its due. Sure we celebrated (this thread is 2 pages long in my settings, I think other in the championship years similar threads would be ten times that) and they were celebrated, but that team demolished the competition in a season for the ages, the like of which we will probably never see again. I think they deserve more acclaim and celebration than they got.
Two months after the World Series, the Patriots were in the playoffs and on the way another Super Bowl, which took a lot of attention away from these champs, and then 2019 got off to its horrendous start. So many people had already turned on this team by early April that people on this site were actually wondering if the Red Sox would be booed on Opening Day, the day the title banner was hoisted. That is just mind-boggling, and sad.
I guess that's just the way it is now.
I don't like it. I think this team never got its proper for how great they were, at least not in a long-lasting way. That's why on a day when we are still the defending World Champions of baseball, I am going to watch some highlights and raise another toast to the 2018 Boston Red Sox, and the greatest team I've ever seen play.