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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 04:54 PM
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Official Tim Wakefield Appreciation Thread
He didn't get it, but came close, and that's pretty good for the old man. America's Team certainly needed a boost, and I think he provided it. :toast:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 06:03 PM
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1. He's been my favorite player on the team for years.
He does everything he's asked to do, he never complains, he never shoots himself in the leg, and he's a great teammate. Even more importantly, he's an excellent man who does a lot of things for kids in the community.

Wakefield is well known throughout Major League Baseball as one of its most charitable players. He has been nominated many times by the Red Sox for the Roberto Clemente Award, presented to the player who best reflects the spirit of giving back to the community. Since 1998, Wakefield has partnered with the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Boston to bring patients to Fenway Park to share time with him and on the field. He has also hosted an annual celebrity golf tournament for 15 years. Wakefield has also been active with New England's Pitching in for Kids organization (a program dedicated to improving the lives of children across the New England region), the Space Coast Early Intervention Center in Melbourne, Florida, and the Touch 'Em All Foundation founded by Garth Brooks.

In 2007, Wakefield released a charity wine called CaberKnuckle in association with Longball Vineyards with 100% of the proceeds supporting Pitching In For Kids and raised more than $100,000.

It's too bad that people like T.O. or Bonds are idols in sports when someone like Wakefield is around. He's a true role model.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 09:05 PM
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4. All around great guy, and a steal at--what--only 2 million?
It could be only one million.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 06:39 PM
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2. Another Pittsburgh Pirate developed by the Pirates organization stolen
by the fucked up policies of MLB.
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Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 09:13 PM
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5. Wakefield left for greener pastures
no player in their right mind wants to play on a minor league team in a polluted city.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 10:31 PM
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10. A really simplistic comment there upton. Maybe you need to look
at something larger than your tiny bedroom.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 08:28 AM
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12. "Polluted City"
How classy of you to say that. You've never been to Pittsburgh have you? Its probably got more institutes of higher learning per capita than most American Cities. AND from what I understand the downtown is quite nice now. Its not the run down steel city you seem to stereotype it as (My roommate in college in the late 80's was from there and even then they were starting to clean up their act)
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Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 08:34 AM
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13. I have an answer to that
in 2008 the American Lung Association ranked Pittsburgh as the most polluted city in America..you have a beef, take it up with them.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Weather/story?id=4758772&page=1
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 12:22 PM
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21. That's absolute insanity. Try Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Birmingham, etc. nt
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PRETZEL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 10:13 AM
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16. Didn't Wakefield start out as an outfielder or something,
I sort of remember that.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 12:21 PM
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20. There really are six wealthy major league teams surrounded by several AAA teams...
the way the League is run.

I root for the Mets and Sox, but also love to see the Bucs do good.

Everybody needs to root for a smaller market team too.
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rcsl1998 Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 07:25 PM
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22. Priates Released Wakefield on April 20, 1995
looks like it was the Pirates who made the (bad) decision.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 08:24 PM
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23. Due to the league economics they were forced to release him.
priates??

:wtf:

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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 09:02 PM
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3. ..
:puke:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 09:14 PM
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6. Well, he's not half the man Barry is, so I can understand your reaction.
:crazy:
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 10:14 PM
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7. Please tell me the Sawks aren't pushing themselves as America's Team now.
Because that's almost as obnoxious as cboy4 in a Barry Bonds thread.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 10:24 PM
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8. I hope not. I'll have to stop for rooting for them if they do.
:)
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 10:03 AM
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14. Well, there was a post about who actually was America's Team....
...so I decided to claim it for the beloved sox!
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 10:15 AM
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17. They're Amtrak's Northeastern Corridor's Team. nt
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-15-09 10:30 PM
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9. So very close.
Most never get within range like that.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 07:33 AM
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11. A great job at a good time
Edited on Thu Apr-16-09 07:33 AM by MaineDem
The pen needed the rest. Wake was awesome. And so was the whole team. A well-needed win.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 10:12 AM
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15. Three cheers for the knuckleballer!
TW: Man, I couldn't hit the shit he throws.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 11:12 AM
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18. That's a great quote!
Wake's pitches must look like a friggin' beach ball coming into the plate...until you swing at it and it's disappeared.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-16-09 12:19 PM
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19. I don't know if Ted said that, but I think he would. He'd appreciate that
Wakefield is a unique-style pitcher in this day and age. Most folks just wouldn't have time to get good at hitting the shit he throws.

I always think of the time someone asked Mookie Wilson why he hit Valenzuela so well. Something close to .500. Mook said, "He's a bad ball pitcher and I'm a bad ball hitter."
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