Getting technical for a second...Buckner’s error came in the 6th game of the world series between the Red Sox and Mets...The Mets then won game 7 to capture the series...while Buckner’s error did not actually lose the series for the Red Sox, it did cut the heart out of that team...it was as demoralizing a defeat as one can have in baseball...the clubhouse workers had broken out the champagne in the locker room and one of the broadcast team was in the locker room ready to interview the victorious Red Sox...As the ball rolled through Buckner’s legs, the clubhouse team raced to remove any and all signs of a victory celebration...for a team sport, it doesn’t get any worse than that...
And yet Boston went into the bottom up the sixth inning in Game 7 up 3-0. They didn’t exactly come out flat after that demoralizing Game 6 loss.
Either way, my point was that, in the big picture, it's nothing to get suicidal over.
And then there was Donnie Moore...
That 1986 clank was a little karma sent Billy Bucks way for running his big mouth, crapping on the 2 time defending World Series Champions and their fans by saying “Only Reggie, Joe Rudi and Sal Bando could even make our Dodgers team” prior to the 1974 A’s/Dodgers World Series. Screw him.