# Boston errors. WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977 "2004-10-25T02:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/1 "2004-10-25T02:14:20Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/2 "2004-10-25T02:24:27Z")
::cough:: Bill Buckner ::cough:: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/3 "2004-10-25T02:30:49Z")
**akennett** , you are asking for many dreadful and terrible things to be done to you by raising that particular spectre. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/4 "2004-10-25T03:19:49Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/5 "2004-10-25T04:45:02Z")
Well, all right, but don’t forget the scrod. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/6 "2004-10-25T04:59:52Z")
And yet, they still won… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/7 "2004-10-25T05:09:38Z")
> [@akennett](#): > > ::cough:: Bill Buckner ::cough:: 😕 Doesn’t Bill Buckner play for the Dodgers? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/8 "2004-10-25T05:45:12Z")
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). > [@akennett](#): > > ::cough:: Bill Buckner ::cough:: ::runs nekkid thru **akennett** :: [/sub]Can’t disappoint ETF…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/9 "2004-10-25T07:00:12Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > And yet, they still won… Heh. They get all this credit for being a powerhouse offensive team, but the thing is, **they have to be.** Heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/10 "2004-10-25T10:12:10Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > ::runs nekkid thru **akennett** :: I know she said “dreadful and terrible things” would happen to me, but man, I was not expecting that! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/11 "2004-10-25T12:53:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/12 "2004-10-25T13:15:19Z")
Well **Exgineer** , I don’t think the poor misguided fool who mentioned him meant it as anything more than a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/13 "2004-10-25T14:07:08Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > 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). 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. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/14 "2004-10-25T14:19:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/15 "2004-10-25T15:12:57Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > What’s Manny Ramirez gunning for… the Jose Canseco Award for Fielding Boners? 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. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/16 "2004-10-25T15:30:21Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Actually, guess who was in the Red Sox farm system in 1986? > > Curt Schilling. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/17 "2004-10-25T15:37:45Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > the O’s … 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. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/18 "2004-10-25T15:38:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > 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? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/19 "2004-10-25T18:03:00Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977/20 "2004-10-25T19:25:45Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-errors-wtf/270977.md?page=2)