Systemic collapse in August. I was 12, no cable, no ESPN, mostly just box scores and articles in the sports section. It was hellish, it just seemed all bad and they couldn't turn it around no matter what. Pitching sucked, bats turned off, and Butch Hobson's floating bone chips in his right elbow had him launching routine grounders into doubles on an almost daily basis - I think he lead the AL in errors that year. They rallied a tick in September but the one game playoff was brief and final a synopsis of what the season was like, hot out of the gate with a fade when it counted. Crunchy could give more specifics as he grew up in the greater Boston area and had much more media access.