Pesky and Schilling...
Posted on 10/27/2004 11:08:29 AM PDT by Gucho
By Steve Keating ST LOUIS (Reuters) - Boston Red Sox fans awoke on Wednesday with their impossible dream on the brink of becoming a reality.
The Red Sox will step onto Busch Stadium field tonight under a lunar eclipse needing one more victory over the St Louis cardinals to clinch their first World Series title since 1918 and put to rest forever the "Curse of the Bambino."
18 free agents-- some of them won't be back.
Good for them!
I would not wish to speak ill of Harry Carey, the Cubs announcer but I believe he really was a big beer drinker and it keeps on going. I don't know if I would call Cubs fans as being like tourists, but maybe the Cubs just don't really know how to win not that they can not win. It seems to me, the Cubs and their fans have been (somewhat) complacent with their teams lowly finishes.
I hope it was posted that Curt Schilling urged everyone to vote for the President as currently reported at Drudge.
Felger said it best. We have a new phrase to add to our language: "Yankee-esque collapse." Yankee will become synonomous with choking.
The atmosphere at Wrigley pre-dates Harry Carey. Harry could definitely sell beer, but he did the same act at St. Louis for years, and the White Sox as well, and those fans take their ball club's fortunes a lot more seriously than Cubs fans, as far as I observe.
Pesky and Schilling...
A 92 year old neighbor of my father in law in norther Mass said it best when I talked to him this last weekend. (My wife and I were up there last weekend for a wedding). He said that his earliest memory was of a Red sox world series and he now can die content with another.
And that's fine. They figure to free up about $50 million plus million in payroll that could be used to retool this team for years to come. I like the A's model....cheaper players who play the game well and can be replaced with farm talent that is young and hungry. You can mix old and young, stars and role players and win a lot of games.
Billy Beane says that the first half of the year is to see what you have and the trade deadline is to shop for what you need. Theo plays moneyball with a budget 2.5 times what the A's have.
Caption: This one's for "The Teammates"! (Hint: Read the Halberstam book)
The first Red Sox game I saw in person, Pesky was the manager.
Buckner to Red Sox fans: Don't forgive me
Bill Buckner's name has been brought up a lot now that the Red Sox have finally won a World Series championship after an 86-year drought.
But after becoming the whipping boy of the Red Sox nation over a crucial error in Boston's last trip to the World Series in 1986, Buckner doesn't want anyone saying he's now "forgiven" for his mistake.
"I don't want to bring a downer on the whole situation because I'm very happy for the Boston Red Sox ... and they certainly deserved to win the World Series this year." Buckner said on Sporting News Radio's James Brown Show.
"I'm just a little disappointed with the whole thing. This whole thing about being forgiven and clearing my name, you know, I mean ... cleared from what? What did I do wrong? It's almost like being in prison for 30 years and then they come up with a DNA test to prove that you weren't guilty.
"I've gone through a lot of, what I feel, undeserved bad situations for myself and my family over a long period of time, and for someone to come up to me and say, 'Hey, you're forgiven.' I mean, it just kind of brings a really bad taste in my mouth."
There has been talk in some circles of trying to include Buckner in this year's victory celebration, but Buckner made it clear where he stood on that notion.
"Not a chance. Not a chance," Buckner said. "There are a lot of great people in New England and great fans, and obviously they're very passionate about their team. This is their championship; this is what they did, and I'm happy for them. But my team in '86 didn't win and this team did."
The James Brown Show airs nationally on Sporting News Radio weekdays from 10 a.m.-noon ET.
Posted on Thu, Oct. 28, 2004
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Red Sox Will Be on Wheaties Box
Associated Press
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - The Boston Red Sox will be the first World Series winner featured on a Wheaties box since the 1999 New York Yankees.
The special edition package will picture slugger David Ortiz on the front of the box, along with his Red Sox teammates, cereal maker General Mills said Thursday. The box will be available in mid-November.
Boston beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0
This was way too easy. Our World Series was with the Yankees anyway. Thanks for laying down (mighty..??)Cards.
But that's the only way we could set the all-time record for consecutive post-season wins, a week after setting the unbeatable record for comebacks!
Wow...now that brings a tear to the eyes.
I dunno, there are many teams that would just like to get to the league finals who've barely ever even made the playoffs, for example, the Texas Rangers.
You think, the Yankees are worst off for this season than the Cardinals who tanked the whole bit after a competitive first game of the World Series?
I think this is being overblown, the "ultimate collapse", If it were football, the Red Sox came back in the late 3rd and 4th quarter after trailing at halftime.
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