May 29, 2014

2004 Champions - Reunion And Celebration


ESPNBoston
Manny's Redemption Song Resonates
Manny Ramirez Offers Apology
Damon Enjoying Life, Won't Call It Retirement
Youk Returns To Fenway, Talks Japan, Injury
Red Sox Spoof Manny Ramirez's Famous Cutoff Of Johnny Damon At Reunion
WEEI
Manny Ramirez On Red Sox Regrets, Coaching For Cubs, Making Amends For Past Mistakes
Manny Being ... Reformed? Manny Ramirez Looks Back, Forward With New Outlook
Larry Lucchino: Manny Ramirez Chosen To Throw Out First Pitch Because He Was 2004 World Series MVP
Johnny Damon On Red Sox Tenure And End, Manny Ramirez And Why He's Not Retired
Jason Varitek On Post-Playing Career: "Where It Goes From Here, I Don't Know Yet"
Kevin Youkilis: 2004 World Series Title "Made My Life"
MLB
Reunion Brings Warm Memories To Fenway
Manny Makes Amends, Excited To Join Cubs

Herald
Manny Ramirez Vows He's A New Man
Forever A Foulke Hero
Globe
2004 Red Sox Champions Reunite At Fenway
Manny Ramirez Says He's A "New Man"

11 comments:

allan said...

Because it's the Boston sports media, there has to be at least one turd in the punch bowl and here it is. (It doesn't deserve to be in the main post.)

Tom DePlonty said...

I watched the ceremony in bits and pieces on NESN while I was cooking dinner - was Francona ever even mentioned? I didn't see it if he was.

laura k said...

I was wondering the same thing. I knew he wouldn't be there, since he's currently managing a team, but it seemed as if he was being disappeared from the record. Not that a ceremony is an official record, but never even mentioning him... it's wrong.

laura k said...

Buckley: We do live in a forgiving society. Even in the big leagues.

But not, apparently, among certain newspaper staff.

allan said...

Mazz drops another turd:
Manny Ramirez Still A Con Man
Do people here forget that Ramirez may very well have cost the Red Sox another title in 2008?

And check this out:
Globe 10.0: Did Manny have too big of a role?
Kevin Dupont and Scott Thurston debate whether Manny Ramirez had too big of a role in the celebration of the 2004 Red Sox team.

Unbelievable. (I'm not giving you the link for that one.) So desperate to draw attention for themselves rather than the 2004 celebration. Just more evidence that 2004 was the worst thing to happen for these mediots.

Maxwell Horse said...

It's probably a given that Dennis and Callahan are going to be dropping turds all the time, but I just wanted to add to your blood pressure levels and mention that they apparently spent the entire 4 hours of their show this morning harping on what a horrible person Manny is/was. That was their entire show. In the part I listened to they were literally (in the course of showing how unbelievable Manny's claims are that he's turned his life around) comparing him to Jerry Sandusky and Aaron Hernandez. (If those guys claimed to be better people, you wouldn't believe them. So why should we believe Manny?)

Tom DePlonty said...

D&C are nothing but a couple of trolls.

laura k said...

Comparing Manny to Jerry Sandusky. And this is Dennis & Callahan, a popular show.

Nothing to add. Just... nothing.

laura k said...

But then, I'm part of that foaming-at-the-mouth cult called Joy of Sox.

FenFan said...

CHB also wrote his obligatory "Manny sucks" story for today's Globe. The head troll whom these morons worship.

But then, I'm part of that foaming-at-the-mouth cult called Joy of Sox.

We should make T-shirts! ;-)

FenFan said...

How is it possible to draw comparisons between Manny, Hernandez, and Sandusky?

Remind me again of the time Ramirez committed murder and raped young men; my memory is hazy.