What did YOU do that screwed the Red Sox Royally

[Rasputin]

I've always had a fondness for guys on the team who weren't the best, but played hard and were useful. Also guys who got it done without it looking like they were able to get it done.

So I worked at the biggest health insurance company in Massachusetts at the time, and we had to change our passwords every month. In Spring Training of 1998 (I think) I changed my password to Jeff Frye. A week or so later he got hurt and missed the season.

A couple years later I changed it to Juan Pena and while rehabbing in Pawtucket, his arm fell off.

I have never used an active player's name in a password since.

So yeah, sorry, my bad.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

I loved them too much. Is that wrong?

 

[Rasputin]

I loved them too much. Is that wrong?

If it is, we're all fucked.

 

[mr_smith02]

I have been a Red Sox fan since 1975, but had never bought any merchandise with an actual player's name or number on it. I simply bought gear and merch that had Red Sox on them.

Well, I finally broke down and purchased a Mookie Betts shirt and he was gone by the end of the next season.

I hope this does not somehow void my SoSH membership.

I have since purchased a David Ortiz jersey...though I think someone took a shot at him soon after that purchase. So, yeah, no more player's merchandise for me.

 

[bradcote]

I have been a Red Sox fan since 1975, but had never bought any merchandise with an actual player's name or number on it. I simply bought gear and merch that had Red Sox on them.

Well, I finally broke down and purchased a Mookie Betts shirt and he was gone by the end of the next season.

I hope this does not somehow void my SoSH membership.

I have since purchased a David Ortiz jersey...though I think someone took a shot at him soon after that purchase. So, yeah, no more player's merchandise for me.

I have the same problem...that is why I buy jerseys of legends once they retire.

 

[AB in DC]

Bought a Curt Schilling signed baseball.

Nuff said.

 

[Old Fart Tree]

I had a Nomar jersey. Other than my Sonny Jr. 4x10, it was probably my most prized possession at the time.

Oops.

 

[E5 Yaz]

I moved out of the chair that I had been sitting in the entire game with two out in the bottom of the ninth of game six in 1986

 

[themactavish]

I moved out of the chair that I had been sitting in the entire game with two out in the bottom of the ninth of game six in 1986

So that was you? Thanks a lot, man.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

I moved out of the chair that I had been sitting in the entire game with two out in the bottom of the ninth of game six in 1986

I took out the bottle of champagne. It was all my fault.

 

[E5 Yaz]

I took out the bottle of champagne. It was all my fault.

That’s where I was headed to get the bottle of sparkling cider

 

[Philip Jeff Frye]

Bought a Curt Schilling signed baseball.

Nuff said.

I have a Schilling jersey. I figure I can't wear it in public again until he's been dead for several years.

 

[Timduhda]

Not saying I’m superstitious, but never watched the Sox because they seemed to lose when I did. October 2, 1978 got home from school and, after playing outside for a little while, came in and turned on the TV. What I saw was Roy White single and after an out Bucky F‘no Dent hit his homer. I can honestly say I only flip to the game to see the score and then change it again. Actually became a JR Richard / Astros fan in 79 and look what happened to him and his career.

 

[Hobson's Choice]

1986. I was living in Fairhope, Alabama on Mobile Bay. Nice place, pelicans to watch from the back deck. My roommate was a Mets fan.
Game 6: he went to bed after the 8th inning, and I went in and WOKE HIM UP to watch the end with me.
I still live with this horror nigh on 40 years later, and it's only lessened somewhat because of the subsequent success.
THAT was a long 18 years, though.

 

[Rasputin]

I moved out of the chair that I had been sitting in the entire game with two out in the bottom of the ninth of game six in 1986

I took out the bottle of champagne. It was all my fault.

That’s where I was headed to get the bottle of sparkling cider

I believe in generosity and compassion in all things, but that was pretty fuckin' dumb.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

I believe in generosity and compassion in all things, but that was pretty fuckin' dumb.

Guilty as charged

 

[HangingW/ScottCooper]

Bought a Curt Schilling signed baseball.

Nuff said.

My 21st birthday coincided with the Sox trading for Schilling. I was at the DMV days after the trade and requested the license plate CURT38. I had to change it when I couldn't drive through Rhode Island anymore.

 

[tims4wins]

2003 was kind of my fault.

 

[Ale Xander]

I went to take a walk middle of the 11th 2003
ALCS hame 7.

 

[bankshot1]

I had to see a guy about a job, missed opening day for the time in like 17 years,

April 1986

 

[Al Zarilla]

Holy crap, over the years I’d forgotten, but in 1986 game 6 I sat on the couch for the first 8 1/2 innings. Then for the bottom of the ninth, I moved around the coffee table between the couch and the TV and sat on the carpet. Two harmless outs went by and then things started to fall through a wet paper bag over my head until the whole thing broke and everything fell on my head.

For Super Bowl XXXVI, I didn’t move off the couch until Pat Summerall said “right down the pipe.”

edit, game went 10 innings. Ninth was uneventful.

 

[CJ Mosca]

I took out the bottle of champagne. It was all my fault.

Interestingly, I DIDN'T open the champagne that night and totally believe my lack of faith ruined Bill Buckner's career.

So, you are off the hook.

 

[yalesoxfan]

I attend. I haven't seen a Sox win at Fenway since 1990. I saw Pedro lose to Cleveland in 1999; one of his 4 losses. I saw a rare Papelbon blown save in 2010 when he blew on to the White Sox. I was also at Game 3 in the 2004 ACLS.

 

[greenmountains]

June 1986 - The Canadiens won the Stanley Cup. The Celtics won the NBA Championship.

October 1986 - At the beginning of the 9th inning of Game 6 I said "It's my year in sports, put your money on the New York Football Giants."

And yes, the Giants did win the Super Bowl in January '87.

And yes you read that correctly - I'm a Red Sox, Canadiens, Celtics, Giants (and Notre Dame Fighting Irish) fan. That's what happens when you grow up in Northern Vermont.

 

[Archer1979]

I moved out of the chair that I had been sitting in the entire game with two out in the bottom of the ninth of game six in 1986

I took out the bottle of champagne. It was all my fault.

1986. I was living in Fairhope, Alabama on Mobile Bay. Nice place, pelicans to watch from the back deck. My roommate was a Mets fan.
Game 6: he went to bed after the 8th inning, and I went in and WOKE HIM UP to watch the end with me.
I still live with this horror nigh on 40 years later, and it's only lessened somewhat because of the subsequent success.
THAT was a long 18 years, though.

Holy crap, over the years I’d forgotten, but in 1986 game 6 I sat on the couch for the first 8 1/2 innings. Then for the bottom of the ninth, I moved around the coffee table between the couch and the TV and sat on the carpet. Two harmless outs went by and then things started to fall through a wet paper bag over my head until the whole thing broke and everything fell on my head.

For Super Bowl XXXVI, I didn’t move off the couch until Pat Summerall said “right down the pipe.”

After all these years, I thought it was me running to my bedroom, grabbing my first Red Sox cap (from '75), and putting it on just in time for the third out.

 

[Jimbodandy]

The 2002 year. Everyone remembers 40-17. Little known fact is that I sat in my office with a spreadsheet, calculating the numbers, and declared out loud at 40-17 that "they can go .500 for the rest of the year and still make the playoffs". They did, and they didn't. Sorry.

 

[LogansDad]

My (now ex) wife was pregnant with our first child in 2004. She was pregnant with our second child in 2007.

We then decided that we loved those two so much that we didn't want to have a third, and then got divorced in 2015, and the Red Sox have only won two World Series since 2007.

My bad, guys.

 

[E5 Yaz]

My (now ex) wife was pregnant with our first child in 2004. She was pregnant with our second child in 2007.

We then decided that we loved those two so much that we didn't want to have a third, and then got divorced in 2015, and the Red Sox have only own two World Series since 2007.

My bad, guys.

Humblebrag

 

[Yo La Tengo]

1986 World Series, Game 4. I was 11 years old, sitting not far from the Pesky Pole. Dwight Evans was (is) my favorite player so I was thrilled with the location. There was a couple sitting right in front of us and the woman was wearing a yellow top (I remember fringe and not much else) that was overwhelmingly revealing. I'm convinced my inability to stay fully focused on the game lead to the ball glancing off of Dewey's glove and into the bullpen. His slouch, leaning against the outfield wall, was heartbreaking.

Flash forward to Game 3 of the ALCS in 2003. I had been in El Salvador for 2 years working as a Peace Corps volunteer. I returned home for a very quick visit and was gifted a ticket for the game, sitting very close to the first base dugout. I had not had electricity for two years, had consumed very, very little alcohol, had stomach amoebas, and had just finished taking the LSAT. Needless to say, the whole scene was beyond overwhelming even before the 8-10 beers. And, a few rows up front... Jennifer Lopez.

Lesson learned.

 

[heunderhandstofirst]

I attended the Bucky Dent game, the Aaron Boone game, the 19-8, game, and G3 of the 2018 WS. The only reason I missed the Buckner game is because I was living in Madrid at the time and there was no way to get to the game. So, yeah, some spectacular losses.

 

[curly2]

12-year-old me, who knew basically nothing about Mike Torrez except that he was a hero for the Yankees in the 1977 postseason, wished fervently for the Sox to sign him. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[effectivelywild]

I tauight Manny Machado how to slide.

 

[RSN]

I was out to dinner in Sacramento, Ca with a big group and my GF for game 6 in 1986. Around the 9th I got up from the table and ordered a bottle of champagne from the bar. I fucked everything up. I admit it. It is all my fault. Always has been. I have never counted any game of any kind over until the last out. (Thank you 2017 Pats)

 

[Benj4ever]

I screamed at John McNamara to take out Buckner for Stapleton in the 10th inning of game 6 in 1986. Unfortunately, I was living in Minneapolis at the time (horrible city it is) and he couldn't hear me.

P.S. In game 7, when Calvin "deer in the headlights" Schiraldi gave up the single to Orosco, I slammed my watch to the floor, breaking it (fortunately it was cheap).

 

[Sin Duda]

[Snip] In game 7, when Calvin "deer in the headlights" Schiraldi gave up the single to Orosco, I slammed my watch to the floor, breaking it (fortunately it was cheap).

Way back in '75, I first started really following the Sox ... a what a year to begin! Because I had a morning paper route, I had to go to bed in the middle of Game 7 with the Sox leading 3-0. When I saw the headline in the Meriden (CT) Record the next day, 4-3 Reds, I threw the paper of the first house right through customer's plate glass window. Imagine his fright upon hearing a loud crash at 6:00 in the morning. Them losing wasn't my fault, per se, but the expectation followed by agony cycle had begun (and I had to pay for the window repair out of my earnings).

 

[brienc]

I was at this game at The Toilet with a date who was a Mets fan, but she really wanted to see Pedro pitch. We went to get beers after the top of the 6th with Pedro mowing them down. We returned to a bunch on howling idiots Yankees fans after Pedro left with an injury, and the bullpen getting lit up. We did see Manny hit a 2 run HR off Mariano to tie it in the ninth, which led to us seeking refuge in a section full of Dominicans cheering for the Sox. I always felt like Pedro Martinez getting hurt that night was my fault.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=200106040NYA

 

[Al Zarilla]

Way back in '75, I first started really following the Sox ... a what a year to begin! Because I had a morning paper route, I had to go to bed in the middle of Game 7 with the Sox leading 3-0. When I saw the headline in the Meriden (CT) Record the next day, 4-3 Reds, I threw the paper of the first house right through customer's plate glass window. Imagine his fright upon hearing a loud crash at 6:00 in the morning. Them losing wasn't my fault, per se, but the expectation followed by agony cycle had begun (and I had to pay for the window repair out of my earnings).

Sox also led early in game 7 1986 by the same score. Couldn’t hold the lead either time. What a difference 2004 and on were.

 

[Benj4ever]

Way back in '75, I first started really following the Sox ... a what a year to begin! Because I had a morning paper route, I had to go to bed in the middle of Game 7 with the Sox leading 3-0. When I saw the headline in the Meriden (CT) Record the next day, 4-3 Reds, I threw the paper of the first house right through customer's plate glass window. Imagine his fright upon hearing a loud crash at 6:00 in the morning. Them losing wasn't my fault, per se, but the expectation followed by agony cycle had begun (and I had to pay for the window repair out of my earnings).

I stayed up...later that game Pete Rose went into second base standing. Denny stinkin' Doyle refused to throw the ball right at Rose's head for an inning-ending double play, or knocking Rose unconscious, which would have been more satisfying in many ways. Instead, he threw it wildly for an error. Tony Perez was the next batter...Yep, 2-run HR, the difference in the game.

 

[Granite Sox]

Tangentially related to the Sox:

We name our pets after Boston teams and/or players. Grizzly, Big Papi, Tom Brady, and Bobby Orr.

Tommy was a tomcat, and we got him as a kitten at the beginning of the 2007 season. Win after win after win, for 18 weeks.

For some godforsaken reason, my wife had him castrated three days before The Scottish Game. Goodbye mojo. So long, perfection.

This haunts me almost every day.

 

[54thMA]

The family of a college friend of mine owned a deli and they also sold sports merchandise, one of the tee-shirts they had read "Boston Red Sox 1918 World Champions", which I thought was pretty funny, so I bought one and one day while wearing it, ran into Bob Stanley, who cracked "You think that fucking shirt is funny??"...........that was the Summer of 1986 and I have no doubt he was thinking of me and my tee-shirt when he took the mound in game 6; "I'll show that fucking smart ass!!"............yeah, he sure did.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

I burned my Sox hat in anger after 2003. You’re welcome.

 

[Rasputin]

I burned my Sox hat in anger after 2003. You’re welcome.

I smashed my keyboard and went to walmart to get a new one just so I could keep posting here about how fucking stupid that asshole was.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

I smashed my keyboard and went to walmart to get a new one just so I could keep posting here about how fucking stupid that asshole was.

So we both made it happen!

 

[Hondo33]

In 1986, I was a sophomore in college. After the top of the 10th ended in Game 6, I called my dad and said something like "we're going to do it Dad!!" Alas.

 

[BuellMiller]

When the Red Sox jumped out to a 4-0 lead against Clemens in Game 7 in 2003, I was watching the game with one of my good friends who was a Cubs fan who just had to deal with Bartman and losing to the Marlins. I said something along the lines of "At least, we don't have to be enemies when we make the World Series"
On the flip side, when I was at UMass in the late 90's and early 00's, I tried to organize at least one trip for my friends to Fenway each Spring and was responsible for waiting in the online queue to get a bunch of single game tickets when they went on sale. In 2002, we decided to try to get tickets for a game on Saturday at the end of April, but I "overslept" on the day ticket sales were opened online. When that week came, we talked about trying to drive out there and buy some tickets from a scalper on the day of the game, but when found out it was "just" Derek Lowe (we had been spoiled the previous 2 trips out to see Pedro) that was slotted to pitch against the Devil Rays on 4/27, we passed,. Instead we just stayed and watched the Bruins lose to the Canadiens in Game 5 (the first game after that stupid Kyle McLaren hit) in the playoffs at a bar. When there was cut to some Sports highlights (without being able to hear), we were wondering why they kept showing Derek Lowe getting a bunch of groundouts, until of course they showed the final line. Still kicking myself today.

 

[SoulGloPedro]

At the age of 13 in 1986…. when the Red Sox were outs and just strikes away from winning the World Series, I began dialing random phone numbers within my area code and celebrating while chanting “They did it!”…. Boy am I thankful for 2004.

 

[Manramsclan]

Keep waiting for Chaim Bloom to comment in this thread.

 

[InsideTheParker]

I have a Schilling jersey. I figure I can't wear it in public again until he's been dead for several years.

That may be too soon.

 

[Monbo Jumbo]

I am so sorry.

1978 - I've a year between college and grad school, and Monday nights off from waiting tables at the Braintree location of Charlie's Saloon.
A buddy and I buy tickets to every Monday home game from April through July. What a run! Come the beginning of August. they are 10 games up as I drive west on the Mass Pike. I would watch the Bucky Dent home run on a 12" b+w TV in Eureka MO.

I accept responsibility.

 

[streeter88]

I watched the end of the 1986 WS Game 6 and then I tortured myself by watching the entirety of Game 7. That was the last elimination game I ever allowed myself to watch live. And I literally moved away from New England (and refused to take either of the 2 jobs in NYC I was offered) over the trauma of having to watch the epic collapse live in the dorm rec room with a bunch of Mets fans...

In 2004 during WS Game 4, I was stuck in an all day leaderhsip workshop here in Melbourne Australia with my boss and rest of our leadership team, fidgeting all day and wondering how things were going, but I didn't dare look. My wife called me in tears at the end of the game to let me know they had won. She had watched it with our two year old for me.

But fast forward to the Atlanta Super Bowl 51 13 years later, and I have been successfully able to dodge any mention of the Super Bowl all day here in Australia (Super Bowls are on Monday live from 10:30 - 3:00 or so - basically the entire workday) so I can watch the recording after dinner. I announce to my family over dinner that nobody is to disturb me as I am going to watch the game by myself, and that same now 15 year old daughter blurts out "Oh Dad you must be chuffed (psyched), the Patriots WON!!" Head smack... but honestly when I watched it, I couldn't believe what I was watching. I was sure she had got it wrong...