Thursday, June 05, 2014
Don Zimmer
A old profile on him. I always associate Zimmer to the late 70s Redsox. I started following baseball (and hockey and sports) right around that time. Probably 1977. I have faint memories of the Montreal Olympics in 76. I definitely remember the Bucky Dent game in 78, and Yaz popping out to Nettles to end the game. I was a huge Redsox fan when I was a kid, as back home in Montreal, we used to catch the Boston feed over the antenna. It was very snowy, but I loved watching those games. I think they broadcasted more Sox games than Expos games in Montreal. Anyway, to me, the Sox manager was always Zimmer.
Particularly Mike Piazza of the Mets, who caught a Roger Clemens heater with his head last summer. "When Piazza said that in his mind, 'No doubt he threw at me,' that stinks. Is Piazza the only sumbitch in America ever got hit in the head with a ball? That's what burned my ass. There's only one man in the world that knows--the guy who threw it. This guy"--Zim's talking about Clemens--"he's mean. He'll pitch inside like you're supposed ta pitch. The other guys are pussyfoot--they don't wanna pitch inside. Piazza made a little man out of himself. Fuckin' cry. I don't care who knows it, I lost a little respect for Piazza. I got hit in the head, and I know the cocksucker threw at me--fuckin' buried me. The Dodgers wanted me to say that, and so did the press. But even though in my heart I knew, I'd never say that. The prick never called me, never sent a get-well card, nothin'. I was in the hospital twenty fuckin' days, I never heard from him. But I'd still never say that he threw at me purposely. Even though everybody knew this was a nasty cocksucker--there's always the one chance that he didn't, that the ball got away."
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