Not everyone loves inter-league play. But, seeing the Chicago Cubs in Fenway Park is pretty cool after 93 years. Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who played with Chicago in 1986, appreciated what this game means. "I think this is a great series for the fans," he said. "I think it’s going to be a big ticket. I think from where we look at it, it’s an opportunity to win a game. We got a team coming in that we’d like to beat." There are numerous connections between the teams. Of course, only the Sox broke a decades-long slump to win the World Series. The two teams have shared many players including Andre Dawson, Dennis Eckersley and Bill Buckner, who were traded for each other, and Nomar Garciaparra and Bill Mueller.
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We learned a lesson this week at Bostonist: People like pictures of people freezing their nether regions off by swimming outdoors in January. That sort of sporty fun set the tone this week as the Shaqonteur chatted up Letterman and Bill Buckner became the new manager of the independent Brockton Rox baseball team. We also think the Celtics are strong with the force. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Bill Buckner is returning to Massachusetts to manage the Brockton Rox of the independent Can-Am League. Rox co-owner Van Schley made it official on Tuesday. Rox owner Chris Carminucci confirmed Buckner will get a two-year deal for his first managerial job. Buckner's first appearance as manager is January 21 at the team's Hot Stove Dinner.
People deal with grief in different ways. 22 years after the 1986 World Series, and a month after Bill Buckner's public homecoming to Fenway, Quincy's Josh Mitchell wants to make a movie about Buckner. And not just any movie - a musical where Mitchell's character road-trips to Idaho, talks Buckner out of seclusion, and brings him back to Boston to star in a revival of "No No Nanette". Oh, that age-old plot.
When the rumor first broke that Bill Buckner was the mystery guest at Opening Day, we thought that sounded just right. A perfect chance for diehard Sox fans, or at least the Opening Day crowd, to say all was forgiven, if in fact any forgiveness was due to the man who had to flee to Idaho to escape the indignity of a loss that he symbolized even though his was far from the only tragic mistake. Schiraldi, Gedman, McNamara...you're next. Roger, not so much.
The butt of a million jokes and the name that would cause chills down the spines of Sox fans whenever it was uttered is back in Boston. Who you ask? Bucky "F'in" Dent? Nay. Grady Little? Nope.
8:00 PM - We're coming to you live! Not from Bostonist HQ, which is in the danger zone of potential postgame revelry, but from our outpost in Central MA (Worcesterist?) where we've been each week to watch the Pats game. The Pats, by the way, just beat Washington 845-7. Mike Vrabel caught eleven touchdown passes. FoxSports is showing Bill Buckner one last time, just in case there was one person left in town who didn't...
YouTube is still up and running and we're searching out some sweet copyrighted materials before Google really gets involved and forces some of it to come down. This week we've been hitting replay clip over and over trying to learn some new words to We Didn't Start the Fire thanks to bunkosquad. Take a look back at sports in the eighties in a five minute intro clip from the CBS 4 montage intro for their retrospective show "The Great 80's" – if we find the rest of the program we'll let you know. If you've somehow forgot the 80's in Boston sports have your memory jogged by images of Cam Neely, Bill Buckner, and of course Larry Bird in the short shorts.
While Bostonist thought it was bit strange to see two non-Sox fans on the field that night, we will accept it if the Farrelly Brothers pull off another "wicked good" comedy. Early screenings have called their new flick better than "Something About Mary." Well, if it isn't, we'll sign up with Rich Brady.
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