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Dan Shaughnessy and others insist he got a standing ovation on opening day in 1987 and that the whole Red Sox fans hate Buckner thing was a media-driven narrative. And these are guys in the media that bait the fans for sales, so there's something there...
I'm sure there are some that stood and others that booed and cursed Buckner out incessantly. That's the nature of fandom, especially in sports mad cities like Boston, NY, Chicago, etc.
Yeah, it is. The team and new ownership were always responsive to Buckner, though. It really was a sad thing, a sad historical footnote. It wasn't his fault; the game was already tied, Boston's closer situation was in flux, etc. A weakness got exposed, and the Mets won the World Championship of club baseball. That's just the way it was, and the media needed a goat. Never should have been in the game.
the Muttsies went balls the #### OUT in that extra inning game 6 to win it - it was a foregone conclusion that they had zero answers for Scott's mighty splitter.
Most impressive stats I heard about Bill Buckner yesterday were that he never struck out three times in a game, and never struck out 40 times in a season (in 20+ seasons). Pretty amazing.
The 86 Mets won 108 games and were a deep and talented clubs. The 86 Red Sox only had two reliable SPs and a shaky bullpen. Many of their everyday players were a bit past their prime.
interesting footnote to that '86 debacle ... as soon as there were two strikes on Mitchell in that ill-fated bottom of the tenth, a message flashed on the Shea scoreboard: "Congratulations to the 1986 World Series Champs Boston Red Sox!"
That was probably put up there by Keith Hernandez, who by many accounts at the time, was smoking a cigarette and having a beer in the dugout after he made the 2nd out of the inning.
They were 17-1 against the Pirates that year. Jim Leyland's reaction: "If they're so good how did they lose to us?"
ESPN crawl had something to the effect of "Bill Buckner dies at 69. Committed error that lost '86 World Series for Red Sox." It was really disrespectful and cruel.
Loved the Don & Mike show. Did a lot of driving around DC in the late 80s-90s for work, and that was a staple on the radio. I had heard the story about Bart Starr also. Wonder how old his son is now!
The line about "Trump's presidential hopes" is more depressing in retrospect than 30 pages of dead people
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tru dat. He was on the same circuit as Bonnie, Kweskin Jug Band, Tom Rush, Marty Mull, Leo Kottke had been when i worked it and i purely loved the man. I've embraced visitation from alien beings ever since i met him, cuz he was clearly beamed in from somewheres else. Plus, me Da's favorite crooner was Vaughn Monroe and Leon had the same singing-into-someone-else's-mouth sound. I used to imitate him like crazy - gonna take a few hours tribute and try to get it back here. RIP -
Yeah, I was stunned to learn that was his age. RIP, Leon. Feels like I remember him being an old soul on SNL many many moons ago.
Thank heavens. My Philly Phanatic - sang the nite away next to him on jam perimeters more than i can count - surprising voice, but no mike presence, especially next to the folks we worked for.
He did. And the movie sucked. It was basically a Lifetime movie-of-the-week but with better actors.
Oh man ...oh man ...so sorry to hear that. That documentary is heart-breaking. Hope his last years were better than the documentary showed.
A Texas legend. Sort of the American Syd Barrett. RIP.Eephus said:
Damn. Kinda surprised to see he was “only” 77. I always thought he looked 70 for the last 25 years.
Hits me right in the gris-gris. The Medicine Show visited Boston Common for the Sunset Series every year when i was a teenager and i always found it a lot more satistying - visually, musically and identitywise - than Alice Cooper, Kiss or any other costume rock. I met so many of my idols accidentally that i never did anything starstruck but, when fortune found me in the same room as Mac Rebbenack, I fairly raced to take his hand and let him know how deeply i was under his spell. I'm crying here....RIP, Night Tripper
He will be ninety in September. He has outlived both of his TV wives, his next door neighbor and his secretary.
