Any baseball fan reading this will remember Boston's epic plunge from the top of the American League's standings in August 2011 to missing the playoffs completely by their last game in September. That collapse alone is arguably even more devastating than their league-worst record in 2012. However, as Mike Salk explains, this monstrosity of a season led to a critical juncture paving the way for the current Red Sox team that will be playing in the World Series this upcoming Wednesday.
A&R theorize that a nation, in this case "Red Sox Nation", can often only throw off the shackles of extractive institutions to pave the road of a brighter future using inclusive institutions if a critical juncture occurs. Salk asserts that the 2012 season as a whole was such a juncture, as "[i]t showed that the system was so flawed it needed to be burned to the ground." Whereas before the juncture the ownership made all the decisions, such as bringing in the detestable tyrant-of-a-manager Bobby Valentine and assembling, in Salk's words, a "loathsome team", the new inclusive nature of actually allowing the front office, namely GM Ben Cherington and his advisers, to make decisions allowed Red Sox Nation to surpass virtually everyone's expectations.
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