Juan Beniquez! He carved out a good (and long) major league career. Love the 1974 picture for the 1975 baseball card (in '75 they switched to the red hats). In the background the CF wall looks strange with out the big scoreboard. Instead, the scoreboard was in RF.
That card is a trip! I forgot what the Fenway outfield looked like before the Jumbotron, the Dunkin' Dugout, The Budweiser Roofdeck, and the Visitors Bullpen sponsored by WB Mason.
I guess Merv Rettenmund was busy.
The only thing I have to disagree on is Eugene Wilson. He started against the Jets because James Sanders was inactive, and I think that a decapitated Ed Truck would have scored that pick-six. He also recovered a fumble, which isn't as impressive as actually causing it - he was just in the right place at the right time. Wilson has a whopping three tackles in his past three games. I don't think he's anything more than the dime back on this team.
How great is it that after New York sports fan Bob Costas made it his personal goal in life to make the camera thing the number 1 story week after week - even though there were no new developments after week 2 - that the season finishes with Sports Center doing a daily segment having Parcells explain why the 2007 Patriots are the greatest team in the history of sports only to be followed by talk of what a bunch of cheaters the Yankees are.
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I think this may be the last really good chance for Jim Rice to make it. I hope he does, in the biased part of my brain but the other part of my brain is saying "Not so fast" because his numbers aren't really eyepoppingly gaudy. I'm not a huge Bill Simmons fan but I always felt that his(well his friend's dad's) idea of the HOF Pyramid would be all the more amusing. The article is a little dated(it's from about 5 years ago) but I think it still stands as an interesting idea.
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And in his terms, Rice would be a Level 1 Guy
Are your post titles old Greatful Dead lyrics? lame. "Ill call him Mini-Gammons." Hows that as a hip, Austin Powers refference?
Whats next " Meet the old boss same as the new boss"? Come on Mini-Shagnasty...
Heaven help the fool.
If you are going to quabble, get your insult right. The quote is, "I shall call him: Mini-Shaughnessy". It is future tense, dumby. And poorly spelled.
Clemens has actually quite clearly denied using steroids or HGH and appears to be mounting an aggressive defense against the Mitchell report, which frankly was a waste of money and doe3sn't contain much of anything that would even be admitted in court.
That said, I don't believe Clemens for a minute.
Rice should receive a number of sympathy votes this year for not being a part of the 'roid generation. So as much as I hate agreeing with Shaughnessy, I'm on his bandwagon this time.
Hey, Anonymous....Problem with Grateful Dead lyrics? Solve your own problem: Read elsewhere. I'm sure the TATB faithful won't be offended.
Craig, about Eugene Wilson
We won our last Super Bowl with Troy Brown playing significant time on D. Having a healthy, active Wilson in Dime or Nickle could be huge.
Umfuld, very good call. I didn't mean to imply that he was completely useless - I guess there are worse things than having him in your nickel and dime packages. I just think he's all but finished in New England (he's a free agent after this year) and he's been surpassed by Sanders in the starting defensive backfield.
Amazing how Rodney HGHarrison's reputation hasn't been "irreparably damaged by his very own cheatin' heart" in some quarters.
nah, it's definitely damaged, to a point. but you know things are different in the nfl.
Cris Collinsworth ... not a HGHarrison fan.
Me . . . not a Collinsworth fan. (Actually, he's not bad on color. I'd like to wring his freakish neck when he's in the studio, though.)
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