Comments on: We’re Not Leaving http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/11/were-not-leaving/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: jeshen http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/11/were-not-leaving/#comment-10405 Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:57:13 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=8921#comment-10405 ”
I don’t know what David Ortiz is going to do next, but I know there’s still a greatness within him that we haven’t fully seen. He’s spoken about helping baseball in the Dominican, and his love for Boston is so evident and so strong that it’s hard to imagine he won’t be around to help with things here, too”
I do not agree, read
http://didthetribewinlastnight.com/blog/2015/07/26/righting-a-wrong-and-honoring-a-legend-in-doby/

]]> By: oldbopper http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/11/were-not-leaving/#comment-8853 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:18:35 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=8921#comment-8853 Ben, I go back a wee bit longer than you, I first went to a game at Fenway in 1948 and I have been there every year since. I was at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 6, 1960 because Ted was playing his last game there and he homered off Eli Grba. I was at Fenway in my college days when there were not more than a thousand fans in the park and Jack Lamabe was getting beat 15-9, but I was also there in 1967 when it all began to be what it has become. I was there for Game 6 of the 1967 WS, my only WS game ever and I was there in 1978 for all 4 games of the Boston Massacre, nobody ever said it was all peaches and cream. Even as I aged the radio was always on WTIC and the voices of Ned Martin, Ken Coleman and Joe Castiglione filled the summer days and evenings. Then came cable and satellite and Sean McDonough and Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy and my Red Sox were there, in living color, on a screen that magically got bigger and bigger and bigger still. The years kept passing, some very good, 1975 for instance, several not so good, and a few both good and bad. 1978 and 1986 more than meet that criteria. Now you are old enough to join in. Pedro comes to Boston, the Sox rob Seattle and Manny Ramirez is signed. The chants of my many Yankee friends, I have lived in central Connecticut for many years, of 1918 and the %&^$%# Curse of the Bambino are getting pretty old, then it happens. Who amongst us knew at the time that this new acquisition from off the scrap heap, a man with a some power but nothing else , would change the franchise forever. Has it been 14 years? I guess it has and what a time it has been to be a member of Red Sox Nation. Precious memories, how they linger and the memories of 2004, 2007, 2013 and all the other great moments that are interspersed along the way shall forever be remembered and that special warm, fuzzy feeling that Big Papi carried with him and gave to all of us will be wrapped around all Red Sox fans.

]]> By: Jay Stevens http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/10/11/were-not-leaving/#comment-8851 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:58:01 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=8921#comment-8851 I watched this game with my son, who is now 12, and who was born in February 2004, and for his whole life Ortiz was the Red Sox. This year, finally, I think Big Papi pushed aside Pedroia for his honored “favorite player” rating, and he’s now vowing to buy his teammates cheesecakes when he’s in the in Majors.

This winter, we’ll have to get our hands on video of the 2004 ALCS to honor David.

Thanks, man.

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