Re: It's 2008 and nothing ever changes.


"McDuck" <wallyDELETEMEMcDuck@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:872qn3lo7kr7sc8emarp990ua75m5up9du@xxxxxxxxxx
On 03 Jan 2008 15:38:19 GMT, OceanView <f@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On Jan 2, 4:42 pm, "Ray O'Hara" <mary.palmu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hof08/news/story?id=3171257

> "You mention the Bill Buckner play in 1986, and you're right. The
> Red Sox would have won if Buckner had handled the simplest of
> grounders"

> Maybe in another 22 years so-called sportswriters will actually get
> that one right.

they would have won if if buckner had been replaced by stapleton as
had

been the wat al;l season.

Another firmly embedded falsehood.

Stapeton never replaced Buckner for defensive purposes.



The story goes that he was going to, but Buckner pleaded with Mac to let
him be on the field when the last out was recorded and Mac caved.

The story I heard was that ***Baylor*** made that plea to Mac (on
behalf of Billy Buck).

That's the way I always heard it too. It doesn't really take the heat off Mac for me...there's also the question about pulling Clemens...though obviously we don't know which guy was lying about the "blister story". Maybe Cobb knows the truth from his friend who was supposedly a former player.

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