Wade Boggs stood at the hot corner during pregame introductions,
tipping his hat to the adoring crowd at Yankee stadium. Thanks to the
folks at medical hair restoration, his newfound luscious locks waving
in the New York City wind. Call me the bitter Red Sox fan, still scarred by the site of that
man riding a horse through Yankee Stadium after the clinching game of
the 1996 world series. But what I saw tonight was a coward, afraid of
getting booed.
Boggs was inducted to the Hall of Fame as a member of the Boston
Red Sox. That is the hat he wears on his Cooperstown plaque. He could
have done as Gary Carter did. Gary wore his Expos hat and waved his
Mets hat to the crowd. Or better yet. Dave Winfield wore his San Diego
Padres hat and waved his Yankees hat to the fans.
Hell, Boggs could've done something great for the game of baseball
and waved his now outdated Tampa Bay Devil Rays hat to the crowd,
seeing how he is the only member of the Hall of Fame to have played
there.
Does anyone remember that? Boggs was a pioneer member of the Tampa
Bay Devil Rays in1998 and 1999. In fact, he hit the first home run in the franchises history. He batted second in one of the most
historic lineups in baseball history.
You might say murderer's row of the 1927 Yankees or maybe the 1997
Cleveland Indians were the best lineups ever. And you would be correct.
But Boggs combined with players such as Jose Canseco, Greg Vaughn,
Fred McGriff and Vinnie Castillo, in a line up dubbed "the hit parade", that featured more career
home runs then any other line up ever assembled.
Were they as productive that late in their career's? No. But history is what it is.
Wade was put in a unique position tonight. Promote the upstart Rays
or pour some gasoline on the fire that is the Red Sox and Yankees
rivalry.
Instead he took the cowards way out and chose simply to appease the
hometown crowd. What else would you expect from a man who's afraid to
be bald.
Cool Fact- Since the 1940's there have been 3 players to record
at least 5 straight 200 hit seasons. All 3 were on the field tonight.
The 2 playing were Ichiro Suzuki and Michael Young. The other? The
aforementioned coward Wade Boggs.
The ultimate cowards are the punk #### Yankee fans who threatened Papelbon's family at the parade...WTF is that? Booing, hell throwing batteries at the guy, I can accept, but threatening his family? I bet those ####s would cower like little #### if one of them was caught alone in an alley with Papelbon. I am not a Sox fan and I HAAAATE Yankees fans...
BoSox61- you are absolutely right. I wrote this last night at around 2:00 am while the All Star game was finishing, and did not do all the fact checking on it. I only posted it so I wouldn't loose it. It was Vinny Castilla not Bichette, who also didn't come over until 2000 as well.
But Idon't care to much at this point since people are already commenting on it. I'll just let it go. I think the message is clear.
Thanks for reading
bigsoxfan; very well done.who needs direct facts when your point tells it all about a player. clemens too will have to wear a red sox hat into the hall [if he makes it] i'm wondering how he'll find a way to tarnish red sox nation. the only way is to boast his hgh & riod years in his speach then everybody will think his career then started in toronto and went on to n.y.,houston,and back to n.y.boggs turned out to be a diappointment after he left boston.he's still a disappointment today.he goes and fakes his bald head with a fake h.o.f. hat.me i'm a true pats and red sox fan here in indy and i love the attention from colts,cardinals and cubs fans
bigsoxfan, how does it feel to be a member of the nation over here in steeltown? loved your article about "the ultimate coward" try an ic lite with your hot wings next time!
I'm not a Red Sox fan but I am a
Wade Boggs hater. He was famous for intimidating official score keepers to change errors on balls that he hit to hits and errors he made in the field to hits. He is full of more than just chicken.
I laughed when I saw him only sporting the Yankees hat. So he played to the crowd, so what? You think if the game was in Fenway, he would have sported the Yankees cap? As you said, he is in the HOF as a Sox, isn't that good enough? Being immortalized as Sox, while his plaque just mentions he played for the Yanks?
I am a 23 year old transplanted Vermonter currently living outside of the Pittsburgh area. Not the place to be when your a Patriots fan I can tell you that much. I've always loved sports but like most of us, I never really amounted to anything. My 1 glorious moment came in 2002 as a Senior at a small town division three Vermont high school. I played 3rd base for a team that went to the State Championship game. We played horribly, and the headline in the paper the next morning should have read State Chumps. Now I find it's easiest to talk sports with a chicken wing in one hand and a drink in the other. I am a fan of the game first and my team(s) second. I hate a "fan" who simply says "they BLEEP ". That's a nice opinion, now give me a reason. My last name is White so my title is really a pun.
