The Most Fascinating Person of 2004
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In the meantime, we've got this most fascinating piece from Baseball Prospectus' Will Carroll
I was fortunate enough to cover the playoffs from a Red Sox perspective on Will Carroll's Baseball Prospectus radio show this past fall. Will was asked to write a 'season in review' piece on Schilling for an upcoming book on the Sox that he and the rest of the BP crew are currently working on. This is something that Sox fans will really enjoy. The following is an exclusive excerpt on Curt Schilling, who called it a "very, very well done piece."
Curt Schilling: Rockin’ One Leg
The base of most championship teams is often their starting
pitching. The Boston Red Sox are no different in this. Peter Gammons said, “The
curse was broken by pitching.” Basing a team on a pitcher with an unstable base?
Now that’s a bit more rare. Years from now, when the legend of the 2004 Red Sox
is told, Curt Schilling’s ankle will be the centerpiece. Limping out to the
mound and mowing down the powerful Yankees in Game Six of the ALCS, stitched
together like some fastball Frankenstein, Schilling has gone from mere man to
baseball myth.
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(Boston Globe Photo / Barry Chin) |
The myth is often more interesting than the truth, but in rare
cases, the truth is better than the layers of fiction laid on later. From the
glow of a computer screen on Thanksgiving weekend to the afterglow of a World
Series win, Curt Schilling’s 2004 season is the type of story that Ring Lardner
wrote best...
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Why Not Us?
Boston Dirt Dogs Exclusive Excerpt of Leigh Montville's New Book
Chapter 10: My Story
I was called by the
public relations department of Sports Illustrated in April 2004 to appear on a
panel to discuss sports in Boston. SI was celebrating its 50th
anniversary and part of the celebration was a traveling tent show of mementoes,
blown-up pictures of SI covers and interactive games. The show was going to all
50 states in 50 weeks, each visit coinciding with lists of Best Athletes and
Greatest Moments and articles about the particular state that would appear in
the magazine that week...
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Breaking News: The Red Sox are offering arbitration to the usual suspects.
Thanks Beautiful!
Cubs agree to one-year deal, $8M deal with Garciaparra
How did rejecting that awful $60M Sox offer work out for you Nomie?
Exclusive: First Evidence that Giambi Used "The Cream"
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(Boston Dirt Dogs Photo / Bill Chapman) |
California Creaming
The Mamas and the Papis
When Jason’s “four pounds” down (He’s just “four pounds” down?)
What did people say? (Needles all the way)
Now he would like to walk (Cheater still won’t talk)
And make it go away (now how much does he weigh?)
Steroids were the norm (Flaxseed oil the norm)
It’s the Giambi way (Reform is on the way)
California creamin' (California creamin')
But Georgie’s gotta pay
Lawyers try to search
But they won’t find a way
A buyout would you please? (He'd get down on his knees)
Then he could go away (But this ain't going away)
You know the New York fans are cold (Watch it all unfold)
They know he cannot stay (yes he must go today)
California creamin' (California creamin')
And Georgie’s gotta pay
Giambi’s such a clown (“I’m just four pounds down”)
The home runs went away (But Game 7’s been played)
Now he would like to walk (Donald Fehr will balk)
Just make it go away (back to San Francisco Bay)
If the jury didn’t tell us (Thrown him under the bus)
”A diet all the way” (That’s still what he’d say)
California creamin' (California creamin')
Steinbrenner’s gotta pay
California creamin' (California creamin')
The Boss has got to pay
California creamin' (California creamin')
Yes Georgie’s gotta pay
BDD Rumor Mill: Sox set to sign Danny Bautista as 4th Outfielder?
2B/SS Iguchi was at Fenway for Game 1 of WS, may return in December
Sox Brass to Go Kiss Ass in DR
Henry, Lucchino to Make Martinez "Social Visit"
D-Lowe stiffs Sox at Ft. Myers rally; Bora$ thinks somebody gotta pay $48M for 4 years of D-Wreck (The Lowe Down -- 2004: 14-12, 5.42 ERA, while receiving an average of 7.29 run support per nine innings, second in the majors. Lowe ended the season winless in his last five starts, allowing 18 earned runs in 17 1/3 innings.)
There is No Santa Claus
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(Ft. Myers News-Press Photo) |
Wally exposes himself at World Series rally in Florida.
And he turns out to be Sipowicz!
