Rob Neyer compares rebuilding in Seattle to building a model plane:

But fans aren’t like that. People aren’t like that. If you build model airplanes, just opening the box and seeing all those pieces is exciting. Once you start building the thing, there are pieces here and pieces there, landing-gear assemblies and wings held together by smelly glue and clothes-pins. To you — and few model-plan aficianodos you know — it’s a beautiful thing, even in this state.

To most people, though, it’s just a big mess. Nobody wants to see the kit, or all the pieces and the airplane glue and the paint thinner. Everybody wants to see the completed model, with the paint and the decals, hung from the ceiling with fishing line.

This is what Boston does so well. They’re always rebuilding, but they are also always putting a winner on the field.