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Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 758
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 7:25 am: |     |
...when Bucky Dent ripped the heart out of the Red Sox and their fans? |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1248
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 7:42 am: | |
and it's happening again. A suicide squeeze with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 12th! |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2182
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 8:43 am: | |
I was in a dorm room, at Boston College, watching on television. I was literally ejected from the room at that point. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 760
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 9:16 am: | |
Thats funny, Nohero, since I was in the dorm lounge at my school as well, upstate NY, sitting next to twin brothers from Boston who were lineman on the football team and affectionately known as the Refrigerator Twins. Not many people dwarf me, but they did. I sat quietly, taking their verbal slings, wearing my faux cheesy plastic Yankees batting helmet (with the warning inside that it wasnt actually protective...very forward thinking regarding product liability issues 25 years ago). When Bucky hit the homerun and I became jubilant enough to finally taunt back, they smashed the helmet, fortunately not with head inside it, but I got the last laugh that day..for 25 years. |
algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1244
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 9:33 am: | |
Hmmm, 4th Grade.
Brookwood School. Manchester, Massachusetts
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 259
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 9:38 am: | |
I was 5. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 681
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 10:26 am: | |
Fourth grade, me too. Mr. Rubich's class at P.S.60, the Alice Austen school. I'm sure the boys in my class, were very excited. I might have pretended I cared because the boy I liked was a big Yankee fan.
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parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 320
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 10:31 am: | |
9th Grade JHS 119 Glendale Queens.
The Mets manager at that time? Joe Torre
The Red Sox Manager Don Zimmer
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ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1289
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 10:45 am: | |
I was a high-schooler working my crappy part-time job at a factory cafeteria. The 10 foot thick walls of the factory blocked AM radio reception where we worked. My co-workers and I had to keep running halfway through the factory with a portable radio every half hour or so to one of the men's rooms that had a window. We'd set the radio up on the windowsill and listen to a few minutes of the game, and then dash back to work.
I was rooting for the Sox, who were my best friend's favorite team, so basically the whole day sucked. I was up to my armpits in crusty pots and pans, spent half the day sprinting down to a factory men's room just to hear the hated Yanks win. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 761
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 10:59 am: | |
shh,
Alice Austen was a fine photographer, but I dont think she ever did baseball shoots. And based on your taste in colors, Id have pegged you for a Red Sox fan.
pb,
being the Mets fan you are, 25 years ago today, you must have been hard at work at your studies in ninth grade that day and not tuning in to baseball.
and ml1, as someone rooting against the Yankees, being up to your armpits in crusty pots and pans that day sounds like a perfect place for a Yankee hater to be.
Three MOLers with handles in one thread who I like and know personally...what a day. |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 682
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 11:44 am: | |
Hank,
I beg to differ. I recall seeing some old time photos of baseball at the Alice Austen house. Ever been? Why do I even ask...I'm sure you could name the current exhibit there!
Uhm, as far as colors...you know, I had to TYPE "Red Sox" before I even realized the color. Duh! Hmmm, maybe I should break out my "B" cap from my brother's wedding in Boston last year. Oh, now it hits me, my fourth grade crush was photographed in my HS yearbook in a Red Sox jacket. Maybe I didn't have to pretend I was a Yankee fan after all.
Thanks Hank, you're opening the floodgates of my memory. Now I'm going to be singing BeeGee's songs all day too! |
parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 321
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 12:00 pm: | |
Hank,
Actually I think I caught the end of the game, who could forget Bill White's Kermit the Frog voice.
Or did I stay at school and audition for a role in our school play, which that year was Fiddler On The Roof. Tradition!!!!!!!!!!! Tradition!!!
Or was I pining after my unrequited love Abby C who said she only liked me as a friend, as opposed to what? Liking me like an Ashtray. She's now a partner in some big Washington International Law Firm. And of course she was a Yankee Fan so it never would have worked out. I was so crazy about her that I even went to a Yankee game with her the first summer break after college. It was a game against the Blue Jays and Chuck Mangione played the Candian and United States National Anthems.
Oh the hurt , the pain, the humiliation. See how one baseball moment in time can open the floodgates to our past.
Pass me a tissue, no I'm a real man pass me a Handkerchief. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 762
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 12:24 pm: | |
shh,
My grandmother lived in Rosebank, so Ive been to the Alice Austen house..and used to take the kids to Penny Beach there to see the boats (also took them on a tour of Fort Wadsworth which was really cool for all of us). I knew Alice Austen did photos of SI and NYC, but were the baseball photos by her or just an exhibition? And wouldnt a guy wearing a Red Sox jacket at your high school have gotten his ass kicked?
pb,
Abby C was cool...she really dug fellow Yankee fans..thanks for not making the switch in allegiances. I remember one game when Chuck Mangione played the National Anthem...it was July 4, 1983...against the Red Sux, and Dave Righetti was the starter (and finisher) for the Yanks. The Sux had pounded the Yanks the first two games of that series, so Righetti's no-hitter was all the sweeter. And real men don't use handkercheifs..they use sleeves. I was invited to go to a Mets game by a woman..my friends were shocked that I actually went and figured I really had to like her. I married her. |
parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 322
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 12:53 pm: | |
Hank,
And how can you compare all those Yankee World Championships to being at a Met game with the future love of your life?
Just another reason why the Mets are the Best.
By the way was Lenny Randle the starting 3B at that Met game you attended? |
ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1290
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 1:07 pm: | |
So Hank,
are you saying you live in a divided household, or have you brought your wife over to the dark side?
as for being a Mets fan, the agonies of seasons like this make the good ones ('99 is still my favorite) that much sweeter. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 763
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 1:13 pm: | |
I remember it was a Pirates game...it was 1988..Dave Magadan? BloJo? I really wasn't paying attention. Coincidentally, the very first pro game I ever saw was also a Mets game against the Pirates..I do remember Bob Moose pitched for the Pirates that night. Koosman or Gary Gentry for the Mets.
And the number one hit in the U.S. the day Bucky slayed the Sux was "I Want to Kiss You All Over" by Exile, replacing "Boogie Oogie Oogie" (I looked this up). |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 764
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 1:19 pm: | |
ml1,
Baseball isn't terribly relevant in half of my marriage, but is tolerated and seen as a fun outing. My children are Yankee fans because my father when he was alive drilled them on the players as soon as they were able to speak, and made sure they had Yankee paraphenalia as soon as they were born, God bless him. My son knew the answer to "who was the greatest centerfielder of all-time?" at age 2...Joe DiMaggio. Who was I to argue with my father?
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shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 683
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 2:01 pm: | |
Ok Hank, you caught my bluff. I don't know if I really ever saw baseball pictured at the Alice Austen house, but I could have you know!
As for the Red Sox jacketed guy, well, that comment insults me! The class of students at my alma mater would NEVER resort to ass kickin' for the team your clothes represented. Hmmph! You Farrell guys!
And while we're talking baseball games, I went to Reggie Day at Yankee Stadium years ago with my then boyfriend and his best friend (who just so happened to BE in my fourth grade class). They were mortified; I brought stacks of Glamour, Cosmo—lots of magazines and when everyone got up to cheer Reggie I couldn't believe how goofy my two companions were. I don't know HOW I got dragged into that one, though I probably begged to go. They were cheering a legend and I was just into my magazines. I think that was the last Yankee game I went to. |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5303
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 2:36 pm: | |
At Maplewood Middle School. But then it was Maplewood Junior High. Was also the year of the Village People's Y.M.C.A. and Herb Fame's Shake Your Groove Thing (I looked it up).
I only listened to the Beatles though |
ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1291
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 2:37 pm: | |
for shame Hank -- bringing your innocent children over to the dark side.
This year the Mets were far too dismal to inflict them on my kids. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 766
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 2:45 pm: | |
I wish I knew thats what you listened to Dave..Id have taken you to see a most excellent band Monday night in the city.
And ml1...I think any open-minded sports fan has to say that the Yankees are actually not a bad team for kids to watch in this era of mediocre play and a lack of fundamentals and little effort put forth (then again, lack of fundamentals lost game 1 against the Twins). Sure they are the highest paid team, but they are very professional in how they go about their business. And watching good team play to me is fun.
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ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1292
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 2:47 pm: | |
who said I'm open-minded when it comes to the Yanks? |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1507
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 3:27 pm: | |
Like nohero and hank zona I too was in college (in beantown!!)- sophomore (alg2 - you sure is a youngin'!). I was a mere onlooker in the living room of our very own Animal House. Grown boys crying, fighting, I shudder at the memory....ugly, very ugly! |
Chalmers
Citizen
Username: Chalmers
Post Number: 14
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 3:42 pm: | |
It was my friend's 8th birthday party at the Bronx Zoo. Before going in, a friend and I were horsing around in the parking lot when he accidentally dropped me square on my nose. You might still be able to detect the blood stains in the pavement.
Soldiering on, we raced through the zoo flouting the "no radio" signs and got back into the car in time to hear Frank Messer going crazy after Bucky's home run. While that day might have ended any shot a modeling career, the homer, Piniella's miracle grab and Nettles' catch of the Yaz pop-up had me feeling no pain. |
ril
Citizen
Username: Ril
Post Number: 123
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 2, 2003 - 3:50 pm: | |
I'm embarrassed to admit this... but I was at that game! The reason I'm embarrassed is because it was the first game I'd ever been to; my boyfriend at the time dragged me along; and I had ZERO interest in baseball at the time (I've since become more of a fan).
I had absolutely NO clue as to the significance of what I was seeing.
What stands out more in my mind about that day was the fact that when we returned to our car--which had NY license plates--someone had slashed two tires.
In retrospect, I can understand the anger. |
Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 188
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 9:03 am: | |
I was in the common room of my dorm in Amherst Mass (UMass!)-- a lone Yankee fan in the heart of enemy territory. After the game, I went running out of the dorm -- dining commons only open for a bit longer -- ran into a fellow NY fan and let out a cheer -- only to have the hoardes of hungry BoSox fans waiting on line to get into the commons turn around en masse and boo. I think we went somewhere else for dinner that night! |
vor
Citizen
Username: Vor
Post Number: 28
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 10:53 am: | |
Main Street Tavern, Glassboro NJ. The only bar that carried NY sports that we knew of in South Jersey/Philly land (near the campus anyway). This moment was rivaled only by Chris Chamblis' home run in the ALCS in 1976 (Also witnessed at Main Street). Good, no GREAT memories. |
wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 789
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 12:01 pm: | |
I asked my class if they understood why yesterday ws a memorable baseball game and one of them excitedly raised his hand and said a baseball player hit a ball so hard for a homerun it "dented" the wall.
Follow-up conversation with one of my yankee worshipping co-workers who mentioned an ESPN poll of most memorable homers, and was disappointed that that Bobby Thompson's "Giants win the pennant" homerun was considered more memorable than Bucky's shot.
BTW here's one more 6 degrees of seperation from that memorable game-
Mike Torrez- Sox pitcher, Yankee pitcher, Met pitcher
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Redsox
Citizen
Username: Redsox
Post Number: 330
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 5:48 pm: | |
in the grand stand @ fenway park
couldn't believe it when the gerbil put beatle bob baily up to pinch hit |
parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 325
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 8:54 am: | |
Hank,
Of course you shouldn't argue with your father. However Joe Dimaggio was not the Greatest Centerfielder of all time. I think it is a toss up between Willie Mays and Don Hahn. |
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