PLAYERS:
Bill Buckner,
Aaron Boone,
Jose Mesa,
Edgar Renteria
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants
TEAMS: Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants
To Dan Shaughnessy: Dan, I have to say you're really getting boring. The crushing Pats loss on Sunday gave you an excuse to go over classic Boston folds-again. Naturally, you start at Fenway: "When it comes to mind-bending, catastrophic calamities, the Red Sox are the gold standard. They produce more agita than The Sopranos. No team does colossal flops like the local nine. They tortured the region in the latter half of the 20th century with the Bucky Dent game and the Bill Buckner game." (I'm tired of people calling it the Buckner game. How about giving some blame to Calvin Schiraldi, Bob Stanley, and Rich Gedman? If they had done their jobs, there would have been no grounder to Buckner.) You continue: "They gave us the Aaron Boone game in 2003. Most recently, they perpetrated the biggest collapse in baseball history, blowing a 9 1/2 game wild-card lead in September." Yes, Dan, the Sox have broken our hearts many times. My first experience with one was wh...
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