‘Fire Craig! Sell the Team!' Banner Flies Amid Red Sox Season Disaster

For a century, Boston Red Sox fans only knew what pain felt like.

They were cursed. No matter how many superstars passed through New England and represented the Red Sox at Fenway Park, things ended in melancholy.

Then, in 2004, the Red Sox won the World Series and went on to add multiple others over the next decade-plus, putting them in rarified air compared to any other Major League Baseball franchise in the 21st century.

But since winning their last title in 2018 and selling off generational talent Mookie Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers, it’s been all downhill for the franchise.

During the dark years, Red Sox fans didn’t know what success felt like. Now, though, having tasted the best the world has to offer, fans aren’t ready to go back to the bottom of the mountain without a fight.

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Although the Red Sox already fired manager Alex Cora and a majority of his staff, that hasn’t appeased diehard Boston fans, who are taking aim at a higher man on the totem pole: Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow.

Today, as the 12-19 Red Sox open up a series against the equally struggling Houston Astros, a plane flew across Fenway Park displaying a banner asking for Breslow to be fired.

It isn’t a vocal minority angered at Breslow and the ownership of the Red Sox; the fans believe the team has spread itself too thin with other sporting investments to focus on the club that made them money in the first place.

Fenway Sports Group (FSG) also owns the world-famous Liverpool FC and, most recently, added the Pittsburgh Penguins to its portfolio, taking over the northeast team in 2021.

Breslow and the rest of FSG can fire or move around whatever pieces they like, but until the Red Sox return to the form that made them the envy of the baseball world in the late 2010s, fans are going to be livid.

A sports organization that never wins can live on silver linings and hope.

A sports organization that knows how it feels to be on the top, though, those are the fans who won’t stop until two things happen.

An upheaval, or winning. For Breslow, he hopes it’s the second.

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This story was originally published May 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM.