shagworthy
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Post by shagworthy on Jan 29, 2024 16:14:23 GMT -5
I figured he deserves his own thread, his passing is a bummer. Good baseball man, better human. May his family find peace in his legacy.
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Post by bosoxnation on Jan 29, 2024 16:29:17 GMT -5
1 M in Jimy
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Post by Canseco on Jan 29, 2024 17:49:47 GMT -5
I always appreciated Jimy's stoic, old school managerial style. RIP, skipper.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jan 29, 2024 17:50:46 GMT -5
I remember his "Don't let us win one or they're in trouble" mantra against Cleveland which helped set the attitude for future post season series.
Of course at the time winning even one seemed impossible as the Sox had lost 18 of 19 postseason games heading into Game 3 of the 1999 ALDS, a game where Lou Merloni had to start in place of an injured Nomar, a barely functional Ramon Martinez was starting and his kid brother was injured and probably wasnt going to pitch again.
This had been a losing streak that had started with the Sox 1 strike from ultimate victory in 1986. The only win they even had was Game 1 1998 ALDS before losing the next 3 games to be eliminated and then losing the first 2 in 1999 ALDS.
Improbably the Sox won 3 in a row to knock out 1000 run Cleveland before losing in 5 to NY, but the imprint was there for 2003, 2004, 2007, and even 2008.
Then in 2001 Jimy was fired by Duquette after managing a team that could be toxic to a record of 59-42.
Duquette underestimated William's. Joe Kerrigan took over and they completely went off the rails.
I guess Duquette who incredibly enough took the mercurial Carl Everett's side in his dispute with William's never forgave Williams for doing the right thing years earlier starting Steve Avery so that his contract would kick in an extra year.
RIP Jimy
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badfishnbc
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Doing you all a favor and leaving through the gate in right field since 2012.
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Post by badfishnbc on Jan 29, 2024 21:52:40 GMT -5
He was a good, old-school manager, he gave us a baller baseball quotable (“If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its booty,” which hell if I know what that means) and his 1987 Topps card established the standard for what a 44 year-old man should look like. RIP.
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TearsIn04
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Everybody knows Nelson de la Rosa, but who is Karim Garcia?
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Post by TearsIn04 on Jan 30, 2024 9:25:47 GMT -5
I remember his "Don't let us win one or they're in trouble" mantra against Cleveland which helped set the attitude for future post season series. Of course at the time winning even one seemed impossible as the Sox had lost 18 of 19 postseason games heading into Game 3 of the 1999 ALDS, a game where Lou Merloni had to start in place of an injured Nomar, a barely functional Ramon Martinez was starting and his kid brother was injured and probably wasnt going to pitch again. This had been a losing streak that had started with the Sox 1 strike from ultimate victory in 1986. The only win they even had was Game 1 1998 ALDS before losing the next 3 games to be eliminated and then losing the first 2 in 1999 ALDS. Improbably the Sox won 3 in a row to knock out 1000 run Cleveland before losing in 5 to NY, but the imprint was there for 2003, 2004, 2007, and even 2008. Then in 2001 Jimy was fired by Duquette after managing a team that could be toxic to a record of 59-42. Duquette underestimated William's. Joe Kerrigan took over and they completely went off the rails. I guess Duquette who incredibly enough took the mercurial Carl Everett's side in his dispute with William's never forgave Williams for doing the right thing years earlier starting Steve Avery so that his contract would kick in an extra year. RIP Jimy Wow! I had forgotten that it was that bad. Losing 18 out of 19, even against playoff-level competition, is hard to do. I didn't think Jimy was a great manager. I'd put him in the middle of the pack of RS managers in the 1967 and post-'67 era. (Better than Zimmer, McNamara, Hobson and Kerrigan; worse than Francona, Williams, Kennedy, Kasko and Walpole Joe.) But I gave him a lot of credit for the way he conducted himself when Jurassic Carl was lobbing personal insults his way in the press. I recall a pre-game interview in which Jimy was asked about Crazy Carl buying post-game spreads for the Pawtucket players during a rehab. Jimy could have deflected the question or said it's a standard thing for MLers to do. But he heaped praise on Crazy Carl for doing it. He was a good man.
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