Controversy leads to tempers flaring at Fenway 

Yeah, it’s “America’s Favorite PASTIME”! Everyone’s all kinds of upset over how long these games are taking (ignoring that no one ever considered it “America’s Favorite SPORT”)! Money, gambling, impatience, etc. All of it’s ruining the experience of sittin’ in the lounge chair, watchin’ a game, chattin’ with those around, & calmly PASSING the TIME on a lazy summer day. We place no value in relaxing. We want RESULTS, DAMN IT! I’ll always watch MLB, but I can’t necessarily endorse it (f’rinstance, I don’t wanna’ tell people what I’m “doin’ tonight” when I plan on taking in a Red Sox game ‘cuz I’m kinda’ embarrassed). Whatta’ shame. 😐

I'm not a Sox fan ( unless playing the Yanks 😂) , the only annoying parts is the ( look at me ) announcers ( started by Mr Woke himself Costas who's voice u hear now) and the ridiculous flamboyant 3 minute show boating home run antics in today's game. Real baseball enthusiasts ( or ones who have played the game) DONT " need this in the game" It's ruined the NFL and MLB better put a stop to it

me too, Yaz and Orr were my favorites growing up in Rhode Island :)

Yaz, Jim Ed & Dewey!

I’m a Yankee fan for 60;years but what a classy (YAZ) man

I just took it all for granted. I’d have trouble w/the antenna, getting the picture to stand still, and having to point my tiny b&w TV away from the sun in order to see the best games (ever) on channel 38. Then, all that was gone (poof)! I don’t recall getting cable, or seeing NESN take over, or first using a “clicker”. It just happened. 😐 I’m not ashamed to sound like ev’ry other old person ever - I miss bein’ a kid. It was sooooo sweet!!! 👍🤟🙂

Interesting how Rice quieted down once big Cliff Johnson and Billy Martin (former Yankees) stepped up.

​@@georgeanthony7282Billy Martin? That old drunk?? Rice would toss him aside worse than what Pedro did to that bozo Zimmer. 😂😂🍷🍻🍺🍹🍸😂😂

@@georgeanthony7282I don’t think Jim Rice was concerned about either of them.

typical dago remark@@richardsiciliano7117

@@georgeanthony7282I watched Rice his whole career and he was the man of reason and quiet enforcer in Boston. I’m a Yankee fan and I’ll tell you, nobody wanted anything to do with rice. Willie Horton was known as a bad boy in Detroit and when the benches emptied in Fenway nobody could calm Willie down and 6-4 225 lb Carlton Fisk was right in front of him and having no succes, when finally Rice got to Horton and was just speaking to him right in his face and willie immediately calmed right down and big Jim never put a finger on him. Players all over the league knew rice had a reputation for being a guy you don’t tick off. And your comment goes both ways, big Cliff walked out of the dugout slowly and sorta stopped, Rice was a key player for Boston and I’m sure didn’t want to get thrown out. Cliff was a DH and a 3rd string catcher and not half the player Rice was so, what stopped him from getting to rice if he really wanted to. I think rice would have picked him up and slammed him on his head and I think cliff knew it, and like I said, I’m a Yankee fan so I rarely side with Boston. Just my opinion but I’d take rice over anybody back then

and the Yankees owned you bahahaha

😂😂

And the print ads behind home plate

Coming from a Yankees fan, Dewey definitely belongs in Cooperstown

I agree....Yankee fan 2

I can’t believe he is not in the hall and Scott Rolen is!!!

@@noelvillegas8189 FACTS!!

I beg to differ. Darryl Strawberry was the best right fielder in my time. It’s a shame drugs and alcohol effected his career.

And people who sit on their butt at home could stay quiet!

He was aware that the pitcher and catcher were doing something that was agitating the Red Sox hitters. And that has Billy Martin written all over it.

That was pretty normal for the time. Unless you actually got in a fight they typically didn’t toss anyone.

True, but ups back then didn’t have to deal with batters arguing over every pitch they think was half a millimeter outside. It can definitely contribute to the development of a short fuse.

Ya nowadays you turn and take one step to the ump in the middle of an AB to argue a pitch, you're gone!

Yankee fan here. Always liked Rice.

Dave Parker as well.

And Nolan Ryan.

Hell no! Wouldn’t wanna mess with Jim Ed even TODAY 😅

Larry Robinson would handle all three at once.

Correction: you can TRY to throw Don Baylor in there, but I doubt you’ll be successful.

Loves to put EVERYTHING into historical perspective.

Seriously

I know, my God. Shut up for two seconds.

skipping your meds again Gramps?

I'm with you though I was born to late. The games back in the day looked so natural , I wish I was around that time 😔

.....and the ""ghost runner"" in extra innings

That's not the issue! I would ban batters from calling time-out, just so they can step out of the box to fidget!

Upset at a clear strike. Typical...

@tmmyjay eh, the quality of footage on that strike isn’t clear enough to make a proper judgement in my opinion. The Video’s blurry and the frame rate is really choppy there. It was probably borderline. It would also help to have a side angle of the pitch to see where it crosses.

STFU! It had late break. Beautiful pitch! Rice embarrassed himself. I used to love him but this is pussy shit! Screw him! @@ObscureBalls

Gold Dust twins first year they were called.

If Jim Rice didn't get hurt and miss the world series, they would've won it all. They still took it to seven games even without him.

me too even if i'm on ....or running a ......dairy queen

Rice Was a Bad Ball hitter & hit into a kot of double plays - not exactly a Clutch hitter - should have Traded Rice Instead of always trying to ship Dewey Out - Yawkey was the Boib Kraft of Baseball in that Regardl

​@@MichaelPetrone-ng5yxWhen should Tom Yawkey have traded Rice?

@@Gregory-sm9pf My point was if you read my comment that they kept on talking trading Evans who was a far better outfielder and clutch hitter - Rice was neither - Evans was the best trade Boston never made -:

@@MichaelPetrone-ng5yx yes I did read your comment Mike and you said they should have traded Rice instead so I responded when should they have traded or just gotten rid of Rice

I agree with you

Thank You and Welcome!

Absolutely opposite take restraint was shown and tension built there was drama and intrigued every thing lacking when you have the clock

@paulmartinek7813 well you better get ready because this year the pitch clock is even shorter

​@@tibbsmcfish3056probably why the folks over my way don't watch baseball anymore

@Robert-qm5so and yet baseball stadiums are full again and lots of new fans have started watching

Is Ed any relation to Jim Rice?😎😎

@@brickmn808 Ed is his real first name.

@@it1988a Really? never knew that

hated the cut of the uniforms of that era...stretchy looking 'jamies

I was thinking the same thing.

And yet didn’t want a go at big Jim🤣

@@dan-ws2sf Dave Winfield put his hands around his throat in May 1983

A very young Bob Costas, no? Probably why it was especially thoughtful.

Making the he game a little faster was 30 years overdue.✌️

Dave McKay

D Lopes is my all time fav ball player . 2nd baseman . Could seal 70 bases and hit 30 HR ‘s

​@@ronniewoodinsteadofmt2615and that incredible mustache

East Prov.

@@jason-hy8ciI’m from West Barrington, my Father must have told me a hundred times that Davey Lopes was from EP. 😂 Also Mark Van Eagan from the Pats was from Cranston/Warwick.

I'm guessing that when Heath was walking to the mound he told Rice to shut the f#$k up, or to f$@k off. The wrong things to say to Mr. Rice. I'm amazed that Rice for the most part kept his composure. Considering that Heath was obviously trying to trigger him.

@@deanladue5367Heath not backing down

Rice being Rice, haha, what else? He was a giant redass

@@acgarner3107Rice would beat Heath like he stole something

Then he was making it even more obvious by wiping his forehead, the cap bill repeatedly, the pants, etc. That was hilarious.

Please use proper punctuation.

@terminat1 Nerd.

@@ObscureBalls Proper punctuation should be appreciated, not shunned.

have you ever been to fenway ? " what's in the water " is a question you don't really want the answer to.

Young Bob

and tony kubeck they were great on nbc game of the week

@@cd.cd.cd.cd-cd Not Kubek, but Sal Bando

@@mikecooney8422 that was sal bando and not kubek?

@@cd.cd.cd.cd-cd Yeah, but I was curious too, when he's making accusations that the A's are throwing spitballs. So I went back to the full game, and rewound it to the beginning and the introductions.

Costas is a closet Yankee fan...

@arisdelis1 I feel like he’s an East Coast Fan in General, Plus Chicago.

Bob Costas & Sal Bando on the call.

Yes, he announced his retirement in Spring Training of ‘81 that the coming season would be his last. He Hit .200 in 32 Games.

Yessir

I hate Costas. An effete poser who could never play a single sport.

Thank you…I was looking for this comment

Who said fight?

Goose Gossage would disagree, Johnson put Goose on the disabled list and they were teammates.

@@Gary2940 : i remember that!

Actually it wasn't, growing up an Orioles fan, Scott McGregor would pitch a compete game 90 pitches in 2 hours.

Games in the 70's used to routinely finish in 2 and a half hours. With fast workers like Jim Kaat on the mound, two hours. If a game went over 4 hours back then, it was because it went 16 innings.

He was a tough guy to figure out, your right about what your saying about his relationship with the media and the fans, in 1986 when Dave Henderson had two strikes on him during that historic comeback the Red Sox had on the Angel's and Henderson hitting that homerun forever in the minds of Sox fans, Don Baylor said Rice left the dugout headed down the runway to the locker room unbuttoning his Red Sox jersey, obviously he had thought the game was over and was hitting the showers, this infuriated Baylor who later said he wanted to go up to Rice and fight him for doing that and after Henderson hit that home run and it shows the Sox dugout erupting into cheers and excitement, Rice is nowhere to be found, then when you see Henderson in the dugout and being congratulated in the dugout you now see Rice and he's just finishing up having tucked in his shirt and adjusting his beltline, don't know if he was watching the game in the clubhouse as he was getting out of his uniform or someone went in and told him about Henderson hitting that home run so Rice had to start putting back on his uniform to rejoin his teammates which is why you don't see him in the dugout when Henderson hit that historic home run, that's bullshit on Rice leaving the team like that, especially since I believe he was the captain at the time

​@Gregory-sm9pf You said the same thing 3x's.

@@jason-hy8ci LoL! I did mention Hendersons home run too many fucking times, LoL! It's a true story, what do you think about Rice doing that?

Bob Costas & Sal Bando

@@ObscureBalls thanks! He’s a wealth of knowledge 👍