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Red Sox fans, you never had a chance - 1986 revisted

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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    not baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭
    Wonder if Eck was wearing a Red Sox t-shirt when he faced Gibson?
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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭


    << <i>not baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad >>

    Bite me! You too TNP777.

    Now I hate the Red Sox. I didn't before, but I do now.

    Go back to reading Harry Potter if you believe in curses and spells and chit.


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  • XanaduNowXanaduNow Posts: 1,718
    Curses and spells?

    I'll tell you what ... you can sit me in front of a TV with nothing but the whole '86 Series playing in front of me. That's fine. I don't mind. You know why?

    2004 World Series Champions

    Buckner was an underrated hitter. On top of that, he was a Gold Glove winner. Harp on '86 all you want. I'm satisfied with '04. Can the same be said about the '04 Yanks?

    Arthur
  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭
    The Carmines aren't my team, but I've always favored them in their epic struggle against the Yankees, plus I have a long-held, bone-deep loathing of the Mets, so, from that outsider's perspective, Arthur's dead on.

    All my vicarious suffering from the '78 playoff game, the '86 Series and the '03 ALCS meltdown (and my very personal and bitter suffering from the '96 Series) was magically washed away as the Yankees marched straight into the propellers in the 2004 ALCS.
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  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All of the people who were real fans blame Gedman anyway. They called a wild pitch on Schiraldi to set up that gaffe, but it was Gedman that blew it.

    On a related note (and as a Red Sox fan who is now a Cubs season ticket holder, I am probably uniquely qualified), blaming the Cubs fan who (like many others) tried to catch the foul ball (name starts with a B, but I refuse to use it or perpetuate the "blame"), when the shortstop booted a double play ball that would have cinched the inning, is another miscarriage of justice.

    But, as surely as Johnny Damon's 2 HR's in game 7 against the Yanks cleaned all slates for Bostonians (the Cardinals WS victory was like a cigarette after sex - wonderful, but not as good as the sex) - the Cubs fans too will forgive all when they win the WS. Unfortunately, I don't think it will come under Chicago Tribune ownership. They need a Bob Kraft or a John Henry to lead the way.
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  • scooter729scooter729 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭


    << <i>All of the people who were real fans blame Gedman anyway. They called a wild pitch on Schiraldi to set up that gaffe, but it was Gedman that blew it. >>



    Bob Stanley, not Calvin Schrialdi, is the one to blame for the wild pitch - Schrialdi got yanked after the hits to Carter, Mitchell and Ray Knight, so we can blame him too, but don't forget about Stanley's involvement as well. And no one ever blames Stanley for not covering first in time either - even if Buckner fielded Mookie's hit, Buckner may not have beat Mookie to first, and Stanley wasn't going to get there in time either.

    But like Xanadu said, all has been forgiven for two years now....
  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭
    I used to buy stuff from a guy's shop near here and he had a nice collection of posters with sports themes, usually company promos (he gave me his Willie Mays Upper Deck promo poster, the one with the art by Vernon Wells, Sr., when he took it down) and one of those was a pic, from behind home plate. of that play.

    Bucks is just about to let the ball through and Stanley is standing @ 18 inches off of the mound, flatfooted with that same stupid look he had on his face every day he was in the majors. That game was over the second Mookie hit the ball.

    Stanley and (especially) Schiraldi have completely skated in the blame game over the decades.
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