[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

billy doesnt get all the blame stanley's performance in that game was horrendous but that is often overlooked bill buckner should never have been in that situation in the first place

[BluesDuke]

billy doesnt get all the blame stanley's performance in that game was horrendous but that is often overlooked bill buckner should never have been in that situation in the first place

You are more right about the second half of that equation (Buckner should have been out of the game - as had been the pattern throughout that postseason). But it isn't Bob Stanley who got or gets mimicked, ridiculed, dissected, redissected, and done in mime in China in the years since. Comic careers weren't made on Bob Stanley jokes (though, in fairness, they should have been hammering Rich Gedman - the wild pitch to Mookie Wilson should have been called a passed ball.) For better or worse, whatever brickbats and razzberries the other 1986 Red Sox bore were nothing compared to what Buckner did - and sometimes still does.