He was a good to great pitcher for this team that never had anyone's trust. Ultimately he held down the closer role adequately but there was never a doubt that he could blow every game.
He was a very good regular season closer for a long time, but memorably was on the mound for multiple season-ending HRs (Brousseau and Correa), and was extremely unreliable this season in any role. His incompetence last week (walking three of five batters) maybe ended up getting Marinaccio hurt after he had to bail him out.
As a Sox fan, I love that the first clip is the one of Devers launching that one when he was still like 19 years old.
If we're bringing up that home run, there's gotta be a re-post of this guy's reaction video:
The schedule is all screwed up thanks to the lockout. No days off between games 4/5 for anyone, and there's a staggering after game 1 so there is at least two games everyday for awhile. But also can't start any game 1 on Wednesday or WC teams would be less handicapped. So we get... this.
Do you think he talks like he's an intellectual now? Costas? Compared to the 80's and 90's. At least Scully could make you laugh. I don't know, I just think he's changed since then. But we all get older. He does talk about the Mickey Mantle Yankees just a little too much. Yes I know he was his childhood idle.
I Bought a Cubs shirt in 2015. Went to the WC game in Pittsburgh, Cubs won of course. A year early but I was proud to wear it when they finally one. As a lifelong Red Sox fan I think we could cheer for them as most Red Sox fans probably did. Even though the annoying and a little bit overrated Joe Madden was their manager. And I like Francona a lot. Go Guardians!!
Yes he was annoying but I wanted the Cubs to win since they hadn't won in 108 years. We had a long drought also.
I've lived in Chicago for a very long time and have grown to despise everything about them, starting with the fans.
The fans
At least we know they won't be out-managed. Tito still has the ability to absolutely pull a rabbit out of his hat on occasion.
In a sport known (more than other sports) for the bizarre and whimsical, that remains one of the strangest, funniest things I've ever seen in sports. Even moreso than people throwing dildos on the field at the Patriots. Obviously you weren't finding it as funny, but for many non-Yankees fans in here, it was like a biblical plague had been sent to smite the Yankees - which was both fitting, and decades overdue. To others, it helped prove that the Yankees were, collectively, Beelzebub.
