What if?
By adamg - Thu, 07/20/2006 - 9:51pm.
NESN tonight starts that "What If" series, in which the network will use fancy computer simulations to answer such questions as "What if Grady Little had taken Pedro Martinez out in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS?"
Yeah, yeah, fine, but on Surviving Grady (one guess why it's called that), Red ponders true Red-Sox what-if scenarios for NESN to explore:
... [H]ow 'bout "What if Dave Roberts was thrown out at second" or "What if Tony Clark's hit wasn't a ground rule double" or "What if someone in the Sox front office decided Mike Piazza was a better investment than David Ortiz." ...
Jose Melendez ponders some alternate scenarios as well:
... What if John McNamara had used Iron Man as a defensive substitution at first in Game 6? ...
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what if...
...they had called the show by it's original name, "How bleeping stupid is Grady Little?"
ESPN Classic had its own Red Sox special tonight: Top 5 reasons you can't blame Bill Buckner. One reason was that Buckner's so slow he couldn't have reached base in time anyway. Another was that Buckner shouldn't have been playing in the last inning since he was so bad. So two of the five reasons Buckner can't be blamed are Buckner...