AARON BOONE'S HOME RUN was the end of everything. His offseason injury was part of a providential start.*

Edgar Renteria has made the last out of a Red Sox season twice in a row: first, on the other side of the diamond, then on this side.

One season ended with 69 wins. The very next ended with all of them.

It’s spring (apparently); it’s Opening Day; and, like every season before, anything can happen, again.

*Imagine the 2004 season with Boone — and without this or this.