I walked through Kenmore Square to the train Monday night, and took the above photo of a sad sign left over from the Red Sox season ending game on Sunday. It was gray, rainy and covered in autumn leaves.
This is only the second October that I have lived in Boston where there has not been playoff baseball in Fenway Park, so the stillness of an early off-season in the neighborhood is not normal to me. But these things happen – not every team can be on top every year.