Most memorable Red Sox moment?

[yeszir]

Excluding the 2 World Series wins, what was your single most memorable Red Sox moment?

 

Mine would have to be Troy O'Leary's 1999 ALDS Grand Slam. It will forever give me hope when a scrub comes up to bat during a crucial moment.

 

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/02/11/1171255858_1629.jpg

 

Fine. He wasn't a scrub per se, but no one was expecting him to come through right there.

[BoSox21]

Probably Damon's grand slam in the '04 ALCS. It was the "holy s***, they're actually gonna do this..." moment.

[yeszir]

The 2004 postseason was such a blur to me that it's hard to point at any one moment and say that it stands out above all the others.

[Dojji]

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Somehow that one was more special than Buchholz' no-no of the previous year, at least partly because in 2007 Lester was still recovering from cancer treatment and he proved to be such a huge franchise leader down the stretch the last two years, where as Buchholz' no hitter is, well not a fluke since he has great stuff but more sort of an isolated event surrounded by the struggles of a developing pitcher. There was a more awesome timeliness about Lester's no-no in other words I guess.

[YeAuldBroade]

BEST:

1975 Carlton Fisk homer game 6 world series will always be number one. That homerun has been overplayed on TV so much it now almosts seems trite to mention it but I was 12 years old and I still remember that moment as clear as daylight after all these years.

WORST:

Bryce Florie getting hit in the face by a Ryan Thompson liner. That image is still too real and it's been 10 years.

[redsoxrules]

2008 ALCS game 5 , Red sox come back from 7-0 deficit to beat the Rays

[BoSox21]

Just as a sobering reminder that not all memorable moments are good ones, Aaron Boone has to be up there for everyone.

[yeszir]

Just as a sobering reminder that not all memorable moments are good ones' date=' Aaron Boone has to be up there for everyone.[/quote']

 

Booooooooooooooo

[bsox0407]

Gay-rod being a little bitch.

 

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[riverside sluggers]

Trot Nixon hitting walkoff homerun against Oakland in 03 ALDS

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[YAZMAN]

Game 4 of the ALCS in '04, when the Sox started coming back, and I was hit by a Wellsian lightning bolt that made me truly feel as if we could not only win game 4, but the entire series as well. I remember it as if it were yesterday, it was like an omen.

[Dojji]

http://www.soxspacenews.com/img/blog/1222754904.jpg

 

Swing and a LONG DRIVE TO LEFT!

WAY BACK!

DEEP INTO THE NIGHT!!!

 

My favorite part, as soon as Mike Napoli saw how hard he hit that ball, he didn't even wait to watch it go, he just turned around and walked slowly to the dugout.

[Dojji]

Also this:

 

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Re-signing him afterward was a bad idea as it turns out, but I'll always be grateful to Schill for keeping his promise. Twice. Two of our last two World Series wins are largely his fault. You could never say of Schilling that he held ANYTHING back, and he laid his body on the line twice to defy history and get us the ultimate prize. First with the ankle, then with the shoulder. The second time it cost him for good.

 

You said a lot, you got on our nerves, but you always gave everything you had and you always put your money where your mouth was. God bless and thanks for everything, ya big loudmouthed lug.

[VA Sox Fan]

BEST:

1975 Carlton Fisk homer game 6 world series will always be number one. That homerun has been overplayed on TV so much it now almosts seems trite to mention it but I was 12 years old and I still remember that moment as clear as daylight after all these years.

WORST:

Bryce Florie getting hit in the face by a Ryan Thompson liner. That image is still too real and it's been 10 years.

 

Jeez YeAuldBroade, because of your screen name, I thought you might be in your 60's or 70's, you are only a year or two older than me.

 

Pudge's HR in game 6 is my favorite too, I was 10.

 

My worst, is 2003 Aaron Boone walk off against Timmmaaaay. I cried for about 30 minutes or so and went to be and the tears continued on and off for days. Yeah, I was a wuss but damn we were so close.

[italstallianion]

I'd say the Varitek/A-rod fight and Pedro striking out 5 batters in his All Star start.

[Dojji]

I'd say the Varitek/A-rod fight

 

I consider that to be overrated, but I can understand why fans love it. You might as well say Pedro taking down Don Zimmer. But I find I rather prefer moments where we beat the Yankees at baseball. I'm weird that way.

[italstallianion]

I consider that to be overrated' date=' but I can understand why fans love it. You might as well say Pedro taking down Don Zimmer. But I find I rather prefer moments where we beat the Yankees [i']at baseball[/i]. I'm weird that way.

 

 

As much as I hate A-rod more than most things in the world, the fight was important not because A-rod got served, but because it pissed off our team for the remainder of the 2004 season. It showed that we weren't afraid of those money guzzling pricks and purse carrying swashbucklers. That moment defined our grit and swagger. The fight itself was overrated, but the moment certainly was not.

[Dojji]

Honestly Mueller's walk-off in the same game did more towards that. Tek fights A-Rod and we lose, it's a footnote.

[Paradisecity]

Pedro coming into game 5 in relief for 6 no hit in '99.

 

More so than him doing it, I remember him walking out towards the mound and saying "Game over."

 

He was beyond amazing in those couple years.

[YeAuldBroade]

Pedro coming into game 5 in relief for 6 no hit in '99.

 

More so than him doing it, I remember him walking out towards the mound and saying "Game over."

 

He was beyond amazing in those couple years.

 

Making it even more memorable was that he was badly injured and couldn't lift his arm all the way up, so he had to pitch side-armed and only off speed stuff the entire (5?) 6 innings against the Guardians. That wasn't just amazing, it was living legend. If he's not a first ballot HOFer I will be storming the castle.

[YanksHater213]

The Mueller walk off homer vs. Mo has to be up there. I think it was the same game Karim Garcia attacked a guy in the bullpen? Maybe the same game as A-Rod vs Tek too?

[Dojji]

That was the Tek v. Slappy game.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

That July game in 2004, when A-rod and Varitek fought, Tanyon Sturtze got punched in the face and Don Zimmer got knocked on his old ass, then Bill Mueller hit that walkoff. God that was awesome. That moment I knew they had to win the world series that year, no way in hell they couldn't.

[suns]

Best moment-04 playoffs

Worst moment-Red sox beating the Guardians

[VA Sox Fan]

That July game in 2004' date=' when A-rod and Varitek fought, Tanyon Sturtze got punched in the face and Don Zimmer got knocked on his old ass, then Bill Mueller hit that walkoff. God that was awesome. That moment I knew they had to win the world series that year, no way in hell they couldn't.[/quote']

 

 

Zimmer got knocked on his ass in the 2003 play offs bro.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

Zimmer got knocked on his ass in the 2003 play offs bro.

 

oh wow lol I forgot there was even fights during the 2003 playoffs. That time was all a blur for me.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

Best moment-04 playoffs

Worst moment-everyone beating the Guardians

 

corrected

[suns]

corrected

 

Yankees didn't

[Dojji]

Suns, just for you:

 

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[VA Sox Fan]

oh wow lol I forgot there was even fights during the 2003 playoffs. That time was all a blur for me.

 

 

I remember that well b/c I was at my brother's house watching the game and his wife kept saying she couldn't believe Pedro knocked such an old man down while my brother and I were laughing our asses off...