"I know it's a big story, but the expectations are just a spring training, first-week-of-the-season narrative, honestly," Epstein said. "We start out on the road. If we have a great trip, by the time get home everyone's going to be excited about who got the game-winning hit on the last game. If we have a bad trip, everybody is going to be kind of panicking and anxious, the way you always are when you have a bad trip to start the season.