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    If you were a ballplayer...

    In my mind's eye, as a little kid I was either Frank Malzone or Tommy Heinsohn, depending on the season. Malzone, because he was the only player I saw up close and personal (he lived a couple of blocks from my grandmother in Needham and sometimes I'd catch him mowing the lawn). Heinsohn because...
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    What if you could change one thing - Red Sox edition

    If you want impact look at ownership. If someone other than Harry Frazee owned the Red Sox in 1919-22, then Babe Ruth, Waite Hoyt, Wally Schang, Joe Bush, Sam Jones, Everett Scott, Joe Dugan, George Pipgras, and Herb Pennock aren't traded or sold to the Yankees between 1920 and 1922. With those...
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    Choosing your Favorite Child

    I checked off 2004 and given the choices, @SemperFidelisSox got it exactly right. But I have to give props to 1967 as my favorite Sox team of all time.
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    Nadir

    A little different for me. I was so emotional over how they just rolled over and died in the 1990 ALCS with the A's that I stopped watching them for about five years. I was a little kid in the Chuck Schilling-Arnie Early-Lu Clinton era but my father entertained me with stories about 1946, 1948...
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    How do you do that thing you do?......Grid Game Strategies

    I keep getting amazed at how much I've retained from my pre-adolescent addiction to Strat-O-Matic, ABPA, Statis-Pro, and Avalon Hill board games, the Sporting News, Street & Smith's annual previews, and Topps. I can remember rolling dice for Chuck Hinton as a Cleveland Indian (Guardian) AND a...
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    Just how good was Nomar Garciaparra?

    I was a HUGE John Valentin fan at the time and while I loved Nomar, I always had this little tug that Valentin never got the recognition he deserved and it was Nomar's fault. After reading through this thread, I checked them and Valentin's best bWAR (1995) was 8.5 and Nomar's (2000) was 7.4...
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    The 5 Dumbest Moves in Franchise History

    Getting into the weeds maybe, but these continue to befuddle me. 1) Not putting Hobson on the disabled list in 1978 2) It wasn't just Ruth - it was Ruth, Wally Schang, Everett Scott, Joe Dugan, Waite Hoyt, Carl Mays, Sad Sam Jones, Joe Bush, and Herb Pennock. Half the starting lineup and the...
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    How Many of the Red Sox Managers of Your Lifetime do you have a Visceral Hatred for?

    I know it's irrational but I hated Kasko because I loved Dick Williams. Williams was as responsible for 1967 as anyone except maybe Yaz. Williams brought in hungry young players and ended the country-club-Yawkey-drinking buddy-atmosphere and they won the pennant!!!! Within a couple of years...
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    Stars that faded away...

    Did Barry Bonds actually retire?
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    The 1995 Red Sox Appreciation Thread

    Don't forget Vaughn Eshelman! In early May he was brilliant. Six shutout innings against the Yankees in a 8-0 win, then seven shutout innings against the Tigers in a 12-1 win, and then two more pretty good starts. Great start for a rookie, yes? Then Wake starts his 14-1 streak and Eshelman...
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    Jarren Duran: Today We Like Him

    Do we know that they were KC fans? I saw a lot of Red Sox gear in the stands.
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    How Do You Root For the Sox?

    I think it might be a little more complex than just player/laundry. I started watching the Sox in 1960, fell in love with Yaz as a rookie, adored Frank Malzone and Tony C, went nuts in 1967, and continued to love everything about the Sox through the 70's - until the Haywood Sullivan era started...
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    A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas.

    Or Philadelphia? I've lived in Philly for the last 20 years and there is absolutely no sense of nostalgia that I've ever seen for the A's, but nonetheless I can't tell you how cool it would be if the Phillies had moved to KC and the AL East today was the MFY, As, Os, Blue Jays (or Rays - doesn't...
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    Worst Red Sox contracts ever

    Can I nominate Jose Offerman here? Bad defense, bad offense in LA, decent offense with no power and no walks in KC and a contract that goes from $2m to $5m, escalating up to $7m before we could part ways. Scale is hard to figure out but Jose is clearly a worse contract the Jack or Tony Clark...
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    Whatifsports Red Sox tournament

    Seeing Tony C hitting 4 hits with 2 HR gives me the warm fuzzies in a major way.
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