A fellow in San Diego synched Vin Scully's call of the bottom of the tenth inning of Game Six of the 1986 World Series with RBI Baseball:

[www.sandiegoserenade.com]

Warning: painful for Red Sox fans; clip is eight minutes long.

WOW! That is probably one of the coolest things I've seen (well, ummm, anyway). Keep in mind I own an RBI Baseball upright arcade game in my living room! Thanks for that

The Bosox fans harrassed Buckner and his family so bad even after he retired that they had to leave New England. Class act you Red Sox fans.

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Da Good Life

> Class act you Red Sox fans.

You are a hypocrite, Minty (not to defend the class of the classless)... didn't you have Crybaby Moises and Bartman as your sig for a couple years?

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Bartman was an idiot greedy fan. Buckner was just trying to do his job.

Leon Durham made a similar error in 84 vs. San Diego in NL playoffs, nobody went after him personally.

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Da Good Life

Buckner screwed the pooch and so did Bartman. If you'd been sitting next to Bartman, you would've reached for it too--just like all the "idiots" around him did.

Calling him greedy is just plain BS.

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I sure would have stopped Bartman. Why did the sucker have his glove? Not a fan but a greedy spectator. Moises Alou is a class act and near Hall of Famer. Why did he get so upset if Bartman was playing within the rules?

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Da Good Life

Sorry Mint, you're deluded. First of all, the "sucker" wasn't wearing a glove when he reached for the foul pop--here's a replay:

[www.spewkie.com]

Second, fans that bring a glove to the game are greedy? Like my nephew is greedy when he has $60 worth of ticket and popcorn and wants to catch a $5 ball (at odds of 14.000 to 1).

Third, the Cubbies had an error in that inning IIRC... was that charged to Bartman?

Fourth, he had company reaching for the ball (see pic)... more "greed" among those that attended the game rather than selling their tix for $1500 each?

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There still is no comparison what that prck did and a simple bad hop to Buckner a player in the game. Moise's untypical disgust shows what a jerk Bartman was. I have never had this as sig it is so disgusting.

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Da Good Life

Phillies phans did a similar thing to a reliever named Mitch Williams in '93, but from Phillies phans, boorish behavior is par phor the course.

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Bartman and Buckner were scapegoats for teams that couldn't come through in the clutch. Both the Sox and Cubs choked so badly that it's difficult for their fans to cope, so it has to be something more. Perhaps there was foul play at hand, or some singular soul to fault for this disasterous outcome. It couldn't just be that our team couldn't handle the pressure and failed to deliver when it counted the most.

Guess again, the Sox and Cubs are chokers. Buckner and Bartman happened to be convienent scapegoats to divert the blame from others. The only difference is that Buckner was paid participant of the chokejob and Bartman was an unpaid fallguy who did what anybody sitting in that seat would have done (And as evidenced by the photograph, everyone in the entire section tried to do too).

Stop blaming Bartman and Buckner and face facts... your team choked. It happens, deal with it.

There was plenty of competition for that ball besides Bartman and Moises, as you can see from the photo. Bartman just got "lucky."

Buckner merely made the last error in an error-ridden game. Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley own a lot of the blame for that loss--the Red Sox were within one strike of the championship three times in that inning.

John McNamara also owns a share of the blame--he should have had Dave Stapleton on first base for defense.

Anyhow, I thought it was a unique idea and very cool. Thanks for the good review, (vikm).

In '94 Mitch Williams tried a comeback with the Astros.

25 games. 20 innings. 7.65 ERA. Released May 31.

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Don't ask who the bell's for, dude. It's you.