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https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CAL/CAL197505100.shtml moon? Here it is...I didn't make this stuff up, but thank you for checking on the other series to make me think I'm senile...:-) May 10, 1975
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Maybe it was 74? I'm old, moon.
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Impossible Dream: Red Sox Nation Begins
dannycater replied to dustcover's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Everyone always talks about Teddy Ballgame as larger than life. I feel that way about Yaz. This guy just ooozes respect and professionalism (and he was booed by fans for dogging it and booed even more for the perception he got Dick Williams fired). He was and is an all-time icon. Like the interview for that documentary, it's literally talking to a legend. The '75 All-Star Game. Wow, the Natural. I mean the way he walked up to the plate. His great clutch hits in 75 and his defense in LF after Rice got hurt, 78 Playoff HR off Guidry. Yaz wasn't the last of that Era of baseball, but he sure as hell is the only Sox player that I feel like I'm a little kid just listening to him or watching old highlights. He just was a God to me. -
Oh yeah, I had a Sparky Lyle poster on my door when was in Boston. But those who know me, know that's part of the aura. I was a big time Lyle fan, I think because of the first name and he was pretty good too. Oh if they only held on to him....75,78...arggggggh. I can't remember who they traded him for, some guy whose name escapes me.
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roy, in '75, I went to an Angels game that I'll never forget in Anaheim after we moved out to the Left Coast. Tiant v. Tanana. It was a great pitching matchup and both threw 4-hitters except Tanana struck out like 13 or 14 batters. But here's the thing that I'll never forget about that game. Tony Congilario pinch hit for...Fred Lynn. Yup. Lynn struck out like 3 times and in the 9th Johnson sent up Tony C who I think also struck out. Frankie was sick awesome back then when he had an explosive fastball to go with his slider. Him and Nolan Ryan. Angels just had little else those years and some offense, but not enough. Lynn goes on to win ROY, MVP...but he really did get pinch hit for in that game.
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For several seasons the only constants the Sox had in the lineup were Nomar and Manny.
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His defense was declining because he was and never got over an Achilles injury that hampered his range. He was declining defensively that year and he was hurt. He was not "okay." Never really was after that injury and a few others (groin tear). That has nothing to do with his contributions as a Sox, and the venom spewed by fans over his exit. He must have been so awful that the Sox players voted him a 3/4th share for his WS take. He was the heart and soul of the team for most of his Sox career. He wasn't a mercenary player and he played regularly at the same position his whole Sox career. He was fun to watch, and he was often very clutch and he was always in the Jeter, AROD best SS argument and rightfully so.
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jad, villified is the right word too. Just sad the way some of these Sox fans jump all over some really great all-time Sox but will feel sorry for Pablo. Poor Pablo, it just didn't work out, it's okay. Instead let's hate on Nomar, Rice, and Lowe. The venom at Derek Lowe too...jesus that was a s*** show listening to how he was a drunk and he didn't do this and that. Whatever. He made 2 of the greatest Sox pitching efforts I've ever seen. The strikeout to save the season v. Oakland in 03 and his WS start in 04.
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Nomar crossed the line? The mysterious injury was an achilles issue btw, nothing mysterious. He didn't cost anyone any title and when he was traded he still was hitting above .300, just like Manny was 2nd on the team in RBI and hitting exactly .300 when he was traded from Sox for being that all-time cancer. Oh, he crossed the line!!! No one remembers when Nomar got out of the clubhouse after the team was eliminated in a playoff loss at Fenway and started clapping to the fans in the stands. Appreciating them. Few will bring that up, I will. It happened.
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I'd rather see money sent to all those former Sox who actually produced for the Sox. Give them the wasted millions. Give the guys who were making 200 thousand a year when that was something special the cash. Sandoval, CC with all that extra dough (Dodgers swallowing the rest but still). Just sick how those 2 did nothing. But don't try to keep Beltre, no he actually did produce for Sox. God forbid hold on to Lester for that 10 million that the Sox had to hold back the bank for. Nope, give it all to Price. Okay, David's on the clock.
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You must be one of those revisionist fans who may have never watched him play. 6 times top 10 in MVP voting, 2 batting titles, ROY, batted .321 in the postseason, 7 home runs in 98/99 playoffs. 8-1/2 years of stellar production for Sox. Yeah, just dwell on '04. Same people bitching about Manny right before he was traded. It's so funny. Sox were doing everything to ship Nomar and Manny out after 03. Everything to get AROD and a backup plan of Nomar for Ordonez. So yeah, if you are where Nomar was and no contract extension, maybe you are pouting a bit too.
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I'd have rather given 95 million to an over-the-hill Nomar just so he could get the money for actually giving a s*** about playing MLB.
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David Ortiz's entire career as a Sox and the money he actually was given in salary v. Crawford, Sandoval...disgusting.
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This guy made more money as a Sox than the 1967 Sox made in their entire careers combined....think about that for a while...that should make any person sick.
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The Sox spent years nickel and diming already Sox on new contracts and while many worked out in Sox favor after the fact, it certainly goes to show how silly the Lester contract negotiations were. Laughable now.
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As a member of the VinaGosko March N Chowdah Society, when you start making statements that pitchers don't pay their dues, you are completely daft.
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Price contract will pay off because he will finally win a playoff start (hoping :-) ) Sandoval and CC can't be matched. Both are and were travesties as Sox.
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Rusney deal was unbelievable at the time. It was the Puig Gold Rush...teams clamoring to sign an unproven player and the Sox won the bidding, sadly.
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Impossible Dream: Red Sox Nation Begins
dannycater replied to dustcover's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Darling somehow came off as the most genuine of the "fans" who were interviewed. Yaz is up, his mom would yell and everyone ran to the radio. Petrocelli's accounts were great, and Jim Lonborg, what a helluva pitcher and great guy. -
Here's the best part of that 5some although it was more about Pedro striking domination of the AL ERA title. Pedro-Sox. Clemens-former Sox. Mussina-should have been Sox, but last second Yank, thus allowing DD to net Manny, and Colon, who later played for Sox and incredibly 17 years later was still in MLB.
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I remember little things about the late 60s/early70s Sox, but it was the 75 Sox that really had me hooked. Playing baseball, collecting Sox cards (Freddy Lynn rookie four-square card), and scoring games off the TV. Made a bet with my elementary school teacher 75 cents and he won with the Reds (and I paid him with 3 quarters, which for me was a lot back then). Basically I was born a Sox, Celtics, Bruins, Patriots fan, and when the Pats won in 01, the Bruins in 11, and the Sox in 04,07,13, I can tell you that nothing pissed me off more than watching bandwagoners jump on from other teams, other locales, and then have people say I'm a bandwagoner. No I suffered through the agonies and the many special great moments of the pre-Brady/Bellichick Pats, the pre-Francona/Epstein Sox, etc. Go Sox!
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If only the Sox had Kevin Cash to call pitches. Is this Sox retro chat? Where the white women at?
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Spend less money on the Morelands of the world.
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Sandoval, Crawford....could not handle the money or the weight of wearing a Sox jersey...enough paying for guys who are potential wrecks.
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I really don't have a problem if Lin and Marrero played at 3b rest of season. They get enough hitting and fielding from the position of late.