tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post6974331400606954184..comments2024-03-25T10:19:58.493-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: Somewhere, Bill Lee Is Smilingallanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-81416971993336009322014-06-07T08:07:20.966-07:002014-06-07T08:07:20.966-07:00The trigger photo underlines the sarcasm of: "...The trigger photo underlines the sarcasm of: "Lee called him a Gerbil, which was completely unfair, but which, alas, stuck."<br /><br />"Alas"! "Completely unfair"!<br /><br />:)johngoldfinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09322562737172405323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-19894042366469158652014-06-07T06:44:48.308-07:002014-06-07T06:44:48.308-07:00This interesting piece is grounded in a little mor...This interesting piece is grounded in a little more reality, although the photo they use might be triggering.<br /><br /><a href="http://grantland.com/the-triangle/don-zimmer-a-life-in-baseball-for-better-and-worse/" rel="nofollow">Don Zimmer: A Life in Baseball, for Better and Worse</a><br />Charles P. Pierce, Grantlandallanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-27043419066560770652014-06-07T05:11:08.159-07:002014-06-07T05:11:08.159-07:00http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/rip-don-zimmer/#m...http://joeposnanski.com/joeblogs/rip-don-zimmer/#more-2109<br /><br />Usually I agree with Poz, if only because he says interesting things in a wonderful way and knows a million times more than I do about the topics he writes about.<br /><br />But here where I actually do have a previous and somewhat-informed opinion, I can't agree at all. That is, the Poz 'RIP Zim' piece is all fluff and sparkle (but Poz being Poz, it's outstandingly fine fluff and sparkle), a nice eulogy, but we all know that eulogies are a form of special pleading not always tightly tethered to reality.<br /><br />johngoldfinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09322562737172405323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-79400162245324212232014-06-05T17:44:06.927-07:002014-06-05T17:44:06.927-07:00efd posted this on Facebook from Red Sox fan Matt ...efd posted this on Facebook from Red Sox fan Matt Fiveash:<br /><br />RIP Don "The Gerbil" Zimmer, baseball lifer and the man who ran the first team I ever really cared about, the 1978 Boston Red Sox, into the ground by burying Bill Lee in the bullpen for stupid personal reasons and setting the stage for Bucky F'ing Dent. In a way I owe him thanks for teaching me the meaning of real pain and suffering, as it made the improbable 2004 postseason that much sweeter. When Pedro Martinez tossed the charging, enraged Zimmer to the ground in '03, he was just doing what every Red Sox fan in the world had wanted to do since 1978.<br />"The man knows nothing about pitching or pitchers. He's a lifetime .230 hitter who has been beaned three times. He hates pitchers. We will never see eye-to-eye."<br />-Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkinsallanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.com