Buckner has been getting a bad rap on this since the moment it happened. First off, the Red Sox had a two run lead in game 6 with two outs and no one base when Calvin Schiraldi started giving up base hits like a Liberty Street hooker doles out hummers. So he gives up a single to The Kid – Gary Carter – who hit a 280 foot single to leftfield when Jim Rice, for some reason, was playing two steps from the wall. Who aligned the defense for the Sox? Ray Charles? Perhaps a “no-doubles” defense when up by one run, but with a two run lead why play so far back when a double doesn’t hurt you? The fly ball drifted out to leftfield … and it looked like there wasn’t a leftfielder as Rice was barely in the TV camera frame … nice coaching Red Sox.
Then Calvin the dipshit gives up a single to Kevin Mitchell – who according to Keith Hernandez – was in the clubhouse on the phone making flight reservations to get back to San Diego to hang with his homies at the nearest buffet. Seeing as Kevin now weighs about a thousand pounds, he found the buffet. So Mitchell hangs up the phone, ties his shoes, grabs a bat and walks up to home plate and gets a hit. Midgets in the front row behind home plate were now asking the ushers if they could pinch hit.
Ray Knight is now batting – the same Ray Knight the Reds traded to the Astro’s for Cesar Cedeno so Johnny Bench could go play third base cause he was tired of catching. Cedeno was horrible and Bench pussy’d out and retired soon after because the Reds were horrible and he, like everyone else, hated Dick Wagner. So Schiraldi gets two strikes on Ray Knight and throws the next pitch on his hands and Knight floats a single over second base.
No issues yet – Red Sox up one now and runners on 1st and 3rd.
Now Red Sox manager John McNamara brings in Bob Stanley – the big dopey looking right handed – no pressure Bob, get an out and we win the World Series and I hope you’re warmed up as this fucker was over until Schiraldi gave up three straight singles in the span of about 2 minutes.
Bob Stanley doesn’t mess around as he throws about a thousand fastballs in a row to the next Mets batter Mookie Wilson … Mookie who has his legs spread wide like Madonna at a Knicks game has no intention of striking out so he just keeps fouling off pitch after pitch … So Bob decides to throw one inside to Mookie – and as far as I can tell from the replay – Stanley failed to tell his catcher Rich Gedman his “throw inside” plans as Gedman missed it and it goes to the backstop and the tying run scored. And it was Kevin Mitchell who scored it and he ran directly into the clubhouse as he left the Travel Agent on hold and he booked his flight.
Tie game, runner on 2nd … and Mookie still has two strikes but now no pressure as a failed at bat would have lost the World Series – but Gedman stinking up the joint took all the pressure away.
So Bob Stanley throws a pitch essentially in the same spot as the one Gedman missed … and Mookie hits a weak ass little dribbler to first base and Buckner hobbles over and it goes right through his legs and the Mets win.
Buckner looked like he had some type of palsy as he tried to move as both his legs were hurt. Nice job McNamara, keep Ironside out there at first base as you’re trying to win the first World Series for Boston since 1918.
Then the next game, the Red Sox had a three run lead in the six inning of game seven and promptly pissed it away with the same crappy relief guys that fucked up game 6 as they gave up 8 runs total in the 6th, 7th and 8th inning.
… and goofy Calvin Schiradli was the losing pitcher in both game 6 and game 7. And people blame Buckner …
So let’s start assessing the real blame:
- Schiradli – you suck and should send Buckner money every day of your life for getting your goat ass off the hook for fucking up the World Series
- McNamara – move your outfielders in and get Nan Davis off first base when leading in the bottom of the 9th
- Rich Gedman – catch the ball dumbass as the pitch was right there … Mookie thanks you as he was shitting his pants knowing that if he makes an out, the Mets fans might have murdered him on his way back to the dugout
- Buckner – he fields the grounder, the game remains tied and they go to the top of the 11th … who knows from that point on what might have happened … he did miss it though and the Mets won the game so Buckner gets some blame
So after the series, Bill Buckner was blown up by the media and baseball critics … after the Red Sox won their second World Series (2007), they had a big “We forgive you Bill Buckner” moment – he walked to pitcher’s mound from the Wall in leftfield and they gave him a standing ovation and he was crying all in the name of “Hey we’ve won two World Series so your mistake in 1986 is forgiven” … If I was Bill Buckner I would have taken out a full page newspaper ad telling Boston to suck it. And then I would have gone to Schiraldi’s house and fucked his sister as compensation.
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