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Tom Seaver received 425 out of 430 Hall of Fame votes — 97.8% of the ballots — the highest percentage of votes ever.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Terry Francona wants no part of Fenway’s celebration
- The ex-Red Sox manager is still smarting from his contentious breakup last fall and says “someone in the organization went out of their way to hurt me.”
Bill Buckner at peace with error after 25 years
- NEW YORK - On Tuesday, the 25th anniversary of the most infamous day of his life, Bill Buckner woke up at 5 in the morning.
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Did the Red Sox pack on the pounds?
- Reports of pitchers drinking beer, eating fried chicken and playing video games in the clubhouse during game fueled the debate, which became public only months after several boasted in spring training of their fitness level. (7 photos)
Kevin Youkilis has a great interview to Steve Silva over at Boston.com in which he is very honest and open about the team’s collapse and what things actually transpired over the last few months. Assuming you’re not a shell shocked Red Sox fan, it’s definitely worth a read.
However, when asked about whether or not players were drinking beer in the clubhouse on off days, Youkilis clammed up:
“The Red Sox third baseman wouldn’t say whether or not there was a beer-filled cooler in the locker room.
“I mean, that’s another thing too, that’s… I don’t know if that’s been out there, that’s in the media, what we have and what we don’t have,” Youkilis said. “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say if there is or there isn’t.”
The Red Sox third baseman wouldn’t say whether or not there was a beer-filled cooler in the locker room.
While that doesn’t seem like much of an answer, I’m fairly certain that Steve Silva left out a few context clues that could help the reader. I have taken the liberty of providing those:
“I mean, that’s another thing too, that’s… I don’t know if that’s been out there, that’s in the media, what we have and what we don’t have,” Youkilis said. “I don’t know if I’m allowed to say if there is (winks, nods head) or there isn’t (shakes head. Mouths ‘there is.’ Points in direction of coolers.)”
I don’t find this funny…
I’m pretty sure Red Sox and Braves fans are feeling like crap today and I don’t think they care about being reminded about this stuff.
I can’t even watch ESPN or MLB Network without being forced to see my team get made fun of.
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I just don’t find it funny.
As a Mets fan, I feel your pain.
Sorry guys, it hurts like hell.
Oh, that’s got to burn.
The following is not mathematically rigorous, since the events of yesterday evening were contingent upon one another in various ways. But just for fun, let’s put all of them together in sequence:
— The Red Sox had just a 0.3 percent chance of failing to make the playoffs on Sept. 3.
— The Rays had just a 0.3 percent chance of coming back after trailing 7-0 with two innings to play.
— The Red Sox had only about a 2 percent chance of losing their game against Baltimore, when the Orioles were down to their last strike.
— The Rays had about a 2 percent chance of winning in the bottom of the 9th, with Johnson also down to his last strike.
Multiply those four probabilities together, and you get a combined probability of about one chance in 278 million of all these events coming together in quite this way.
When confronted with numbers like these, you have to start to ask a few questions, statistical and existential.
(via boston)
Globe Editorial
Buckner: Catching the humor in it
- In the annals of good sportsmanship, few people deserve more credit than Bill Buckner.
(via bosstownsports)
They say baseball is a game of inches, but it’s really a game of little details. Sox captain Jason Varitek paints or tapes his nails so pitchers can see his signs easier. Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield never lets his fingertips touch the stitches when he throws a pitch, and Adrian Gonzalez hits with the name of his favorite psalm emblazoned on his bat. Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Stan Grossfeld took a long lens around Fenway Park to capture the scene up close and personal. (17 photos)
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