I love how when Zimmer gets dealt with and falls to the ground, the cop is patting him on the back, like that's gonna do anything.
Everyone who wasn't a fan in 99 should watch MLBEpic Moments: Pedro's Peak on the MLB Network. It was a great year to be a Sox fan and really set the stage for the success a few years later.
I won't argue that point with you mvp because you were there in '99 and I wasn't until the following year but please enlighten me about what was so good about that year? I do remember that AS Game, reception for Ted Williams, the strikeout binge by Pedro and his great 23-4 record that season---not to mention his relief gem against the Indians in the playoffs and his win over Clemens in the third game of the ALCS. They are all worth putting into the treasure trove, but didn't the fact the MFY beat the Red Sox in five that fall and the fact that team won the second of what would become three WS Titles in a row the next year and four of five overall, didn't that take a lot of the shine out of the '99 season?
WIt was one of the years where I completely loved the team. Was it a juggernaut? Nope. Pedro was having one of the greatest seasons of all time. The team went down 0-2 to the Indians with Pedro left for dead. Sox hammered away at the Indians in games 3 and 4. Then Pedro had his amazing game 5.
For me, that season erased a lot of the "this team is cursed" bs I grew up with. Did they beat the Yankees? No. But it was the first year I felt they could actually compete with them. It gave me hope for the future.
I'm not such a miserable prick that not winning a WS doesn't ruin a fun season for me. You can't win every year. If someone doesn't enjoy baseball enough that they need to shit on a team because they overachieved but didn't win the WS, they should find something else to do.
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Question answered mvp. Thanks. I think that's what separates us from Yankee fans. To them winning a WS is like a birthright and they seem to have this feeling of entitlement. Maybe having gone one for 14 so far in this century in that regard might temper those feelings somewhat. I think Red Sox fans just want a team that will contend every year because if we can keep doing that a title or two or three might be in the offing down the road.
That may be the most ironic post i've ever read on this site.
We miss you Mike.
Not to ruffle any feathers, but fred shouldn't be calling anyone out on entitlement.
We miss you Mike.
I freely admit to feeling somewhat entitled as a Sox fan.
It comes from many years of just hoping that the Sox would be good. And then seeing them be so for so long. I expect the Sox to put a competitive and mostly winning team on the field each year.
I do not expect that the Sox will be in the hunt for a WS title each year.
Well said Spud. We are supposed to be entitled as Red Sox fans so long as that entitlement means we should be contending every year and not expect a WS Title along with it. 2012 and 2014 were car wrecks that Sox fans were NOT entitled to, from the rotten ST non-program Farrell ran, from that miserable and wrong headed signing of Drew, to the utter failure of Bradley and Middlebrooks and disappointing showing of Bogaerts. Question.....You or others out there would think, say, a division title this year would make up for 2014 or does it need to me a little more like at least an AL Championship? Food for thought.
Honestly I could be satisfied with second in the division. That would be a leap forward from 2014.
Beyond that is bonus time. I could live with that, too.
H-O-F voting is flawed when a pitcher who dominated his era is left off some ballets. Congrats Pedro! Every time he toed the rubber it was an event.