What the fuck is going on with Boston’s fielding? These guys are muffing balls right and left. Last night it was Ramirez, tonight it’s Mueller and Bellhorn. C’mon, guys/ Start playing like champions. Schilling can’t do it all himself!
::cough:: Bill Buckner ::cough::
akennett, you are asking for many dreadful and terrible things to be done to you by raising that particular spectre.
Yes, wise and fearsome one. Now just put away those claws and I’ll go make ready a sacrifice of tea and baked beans for the gods. 
Well, all right, but don’t forget the scrod.
And yet, they still won…
Doesn’t Bill Buckner play for the Dodgers?
Bill Buckner doesn’t play for anyone; he’s retired, as are the vast bulk of players from the '86 series (only notable exception of whom I’m aware is Clemens).
::runs nekkid thru akennett::
[/sub]Can’t disappoint ETF…[/sub]
Heh. They get all this credit for being a powerhouse offensive team, but the thing is, they have to be. Heh heh.
I know she said “dreadful and terrible things” would happen to me, but man, I was not expecting that!
The Buckner comparison is unfair to all concerned, especially Bill Buckner. That said, fielding like that is going to get them killed in Busch Stadium. Damn it.
Well Exgineer, I don’t think the poor misguided fool who mentioned him meant it as anything more than a joke.
Actually, guess who was in the Red Sox farm system in 1986?
Curt Schilling. At least that’s what I heard on the radio the other day.
Yes, the errors sucked, but they did win. And the Cardinals had a very uncharacteristic baserunning botch that probably cost them a run. Still, what a catch Edwards made?! Damn he’s good in the field.
What’s Manny Ramirez gunning for… the Jose Canseco Award for Fielding Boners?
When he used his leg as a pole vault while fielding that pop fly in Game 1, I just about pissed my couch laughing.
Hey, it could be worse, he could be going for the Traci Lords Award for Fielding Boners. I think I speak for everyone present when I say that’s just not something I want to see.
Right, he was in AA ball when the Sox traded him and Brady Anderson to Baltimore for Mike Boddicker in 1988. The deal looked good for the Sox at the time; Boddicker was a key part of the '88 and '90 playoff teams, and Schilling and Anderson weren’t obviously going to be stars. Anderson only had one big year for the O’s as it was, and they eventually dumped Schilling. Hey, I’d call being traded to Houston along with Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch for the legendary Glenn Davis being dumped, wouldn’t you?
SHUT.
UP.
At the time, Davis looked like a damn fine catch. Yes, he’d had a wrist injury in '90, but the four years before that he’d hit over 120 homers with the Astrodome as his home field. You just never know.
Bruce_Daddy and I were having a Yahoo Messenger conversation during last nights game when he remarked that with the 4 errors, the Sox looked like a church league softball team. I told him that for the rec league softball team I’m on, 4 errors is good quality defense.
What do you expect, when the Sox choose none other than JOHNNY PESKY to throw out the first ball of the Series? The guy whose legendary fielding miscue cost them the '46 Series?
The Sox seem bent on taunting the Baseball Gods. If the Series comes back to Fenway, I expect them to bring in Mike Torrez and Buckner to throw out the first pitch in the last two games.