The Red Sox…
…are going to the World Series.
I’m so old I remember when baseball players didn’t wear beards.
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…are going to the World Series.
I’m so old I remember when baseball players didn’t wear beards.
Liked it better then.
NOT a fan of facial hair. Like to see a man’s face. 😉
Baseball players didn’t wear beards? How long ago was that? Don’t you remember the House of David?
https://medium.com/@Hipstercrite/the-house-of-david-the-midwest-cult-that-was-really-good-at-baseball-4d3d8afe6b05
Francesca: You got that right!
But what I really hate is all the 3-day-stubble-wearing dudes. (I don’t see why they don’t also wear their wife-beater beer-stained undershirts.) When I see them (via some Electronic Video Display machine or other, usually a TV screen or computer) I always go “Get a shaaave!” Softly, of course.
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bof: Never heard of ’em. Heh — now some of them has beards as is worth talkin’ about! Thanks.
I’m so old I remember when baseball players didn’t wear beards.
I’m so old I remember the Red Sox player who was the only player to pinch hit for Ted Williams. He also pinch hit for Carl Yastrzemski and Roger Maris. He played pro football and caught several touchdown passes from Y.A. Tittle. After retiring from baseball, he worked two decades for the Denver Broncos in various capacities, including Director of Player Personnel, helping craft two Broncos teams that went to the Super Bowl.
Who is this mystery Red Sox player? 🙂
I’m so old I remember hearing a klezmer song on the Prairie Home Companion about the Red Sox, circa 1986. It finished with:
Which did a good job of expressing the frustration of Sox fans from 1919-2003. I made a cursory attempt to find that song on YouTube, but have not been able to locate it.
I am so old I remember when there was a hockey team that wore swastikas with impunity.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/16587914@N04/4462315087/
TriviaMaster, I heard those names in Chuck Thompson’s voice and in my mind’s eye was sitting on the front porch listening to the game on the radio. Thanks for the flashback to childhood.
Yeah, the Red Sox look ridiculous. I blame Bill Belichick. Where have you gone Tom Landry? A nation turns its trophy wives to you.
Neo, Yankees players are held to higher standards. Look how we cleaned up Johnny Damen.
I would welcome you into Yankees fanhood with open arms. No soul is truly lost!
Don’t pay a lot of attention, but was the last time the Sox were in the Series 1974? A thriller 7-game series with the Big Red Machine.
I’m so old I remember when baseball players wore beards the first time.
I’m so old I remember when the Red Sox weren’t sore winners.
I’m so old I remember when the Red Sox weren’t winners.
vanderleun:
Well, you don’t have to be so old for that.
But actually, unlike (for example) the Cubs, the Red Sox were always winners, even during the time when they never won the World Series. Much of that time they were in hot contention, often reaching the playoffs or even the Series, and then having some sort of spectacular meltdown or even one bad play that foiled them. They often came very very close but didn’t win the whole thing. That was what was especially frustrating about the Red Sox.
Surellin:
Perhaps you’re joking? If not, take a look.
Neo
But actually, unlike (for example) the Cubs, the Red Sox were always winners, even during the time when they never won the World Series.
No, the Red Sox weren’t always winners. The Red Sox had a losing record for the 1920s, the 1930s, and the 1960s. The ’60s Red Sox before the Impossible Dream season of 1967 were pathetic. As old Case said many a time, you can look it up.
The all-time regular seasonal records of the Cubs and Red Sox aren’t all that different: winning percentages of .514 for the Cubs and .518 for the Red Sox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boston_Red_Sox_seasons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chicago_Cubs_seasons
Gringo:
Yes, I know they weren’t literally “always” winners. I should have qualified that to the time that I followed them, from the late 60s on. I began following them in 1967, and I basically was speaking of the last half-century rather than the previous half-centruy.
I am so old my memory matches Gerard’s.
I’m so old I can remember 1) when it was a new thing for baseball players to wear eyeglasses (former Phillies Greg Luzinski and Kent Tekulve); and 2) there were two MLB teams in Philadelphia– the Phillies and the A’s. Fun factoid: after the A’s moved to Oakland, they swept the Red Sox twice (1988 and 1990) to win the AL pennant.
I think there have been four beard popularity cycles in my lifetime.