Picture worth 1000 words. Can't say when I heard the news I didn't crank up three little birds. So long Vic thanks for the ring.Section15Box113 said:
I couldn't say it better, so I'll just agree with this and say farewell to one of my favorites.Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat said:This was inevitable and the right thing to do. Still, I find myself a bit sad.
Thanks for 2013. I'll never hear Three Little Birds and not think of you and smile.
Awesome pic. Remindful of the Cabrera pic from '04.Section15Box113 said:
Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat said:This was inevitable and the right thing to do. Still, I find myself a bit sad.
Thanks for 2013. I'll never hear Three Little Birds and not think of you and smile.
Was a unique performer on an unforgettable team. Loved the way he played.LeoCarrillo said:Mahalo
Soxfan in Fla said:Thanks Shane. Every time I hear Three Little Birds I think of the 2013 playoffs.
Laser Show said:I've shared this story before, but it's worth sharing again. Does anyone remember that 2006 series at home against the Phillies? One of the games ended on an Ortiz walk-off homer and the next game he ripped a walk-off double to the gap (after Papelbon allowed a game tying home run to Utley that clanged off the foul pole).
During that second game, I was sitting down the left field line. Shane Victorino was playing left field. And he was getting heckled mercilessly by a group of fans in the first couple of rows. Vic-tor-ino! More and more of our section got into it (I think he made an error or misplayed a ball). He jawed back a little and these guys down at the front just kept getting louder.
Sometime in the late innings Victorino walked over to them on his way out to left field with one of the cops or security folks. "That's them, they've been hounding me all game, get them out of here." Security starts to try to usher them up the steps and these guys start to complain and panic a little. Before they get far, though, Vic and the security guy lose it and just start laughing, both in on the joke. Our entire section starts laughing as Shane jogs out to left, that big smile on his face. Didn't hear that jeer the rest of the afternoon. A really funny moment that made me a big fan of his. Not sure there's a lot of guys who would've handled that like he did.
It was very weird, though, hearing a much louder Vic-tor-ino chant at Fenway in October 2013 for entirely different reasons.
Bob Montgomery's Helmet Hat said:This was inevitable and the right thing to do. Still, I find myself a bit sad.
Thanks for 2013. I'll never hear Three Little Birds and not think of you and smile.
Savin Hillbilly said:Shane was the perfect antidote to everything that had been wrong with the franchise starting with the 2011 collapse. A lot of guys embodied the spirit of 2013, but other than perhaps Koji I don't think anyone did it more perfectly than Victorino.
I'm glad he's going to get a chance to contribute to a winning team again, because that's what he does best.
Thanks, very poignant.mauidano said:
Sprowl said:
Fenway never sounded better than when Victorino came to bat. By the last game of the World Series, the fans were singing the chorus with brio. Three Little Birds are permanent residents of the baseball playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-q2lGbqkZM
Victorino was the first chemistry signing, wasn't he? That was the first step in repairing the damage done by the downfall of 2011 followed by the usurper Bobby the Fifth.
Getting traded to a contender is the best way for a veteran to wind up his big contract. I can now root for the Angels in good conscience.
Truly. Going to miss him.mauidano said: