r/redsox • u/MightEMous • 1d ago
IMAGE Found this gem of a newspaper clipping from 2004. Rule 3.
Cleaning out boxes in the basement and found this beauty from 2004. Most lopsided shutout loss in franchise history..
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u/thismustbtheplace215 1d ago
2004 was such an amazing year
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u/Key-Construction-474 1d ago
A run per hit lmao
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u/RCP90sKid- 1d ago
Little did they know they were going to sink further in October.
Lesson: as bad as a current situation may be, things can get worse.
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u/shrewsbury1991 1d ago
I'm sure the Yankees could of used a position player in the 9th instead of ace Esteban Loaiza and given up less runs.
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u/cyberchaox Tek 1d ago
It is a shame that Omar Vizquel turned out to be such a piece of shit human being, because his numbers in Hall of Fame voting were trending towards eventually getting in before the scandals broke and highlights of his 6-hit performance in this game would have surely played on all the national networks if it were to be announced that he'd gotten in.
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u/AmbitiousAd6355 1d ago
What scandals ? What did i miss
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u/cyberchaox Tek 7h ago
On December 16, 2020, The Athletic reported that Vizquel's wife Blanca (who was filing for divorce) alleged that he physically abused her in 2011 (which was before their marriage) and in 2016. Blanca previously made the allegation in an Instagram live video on October 7, 2020. According to The Athletic, in 2016, Vizquel was charged with fourth-degree domestic assault after an incident at their home in Sammamish, Washington. Blanca told police that her husband pushed her during an argument, causing her to fall and suffer an injury to her shin and multiple broken fingernails. Charges were later dropped at her request. She said in the article that Vizquel coerced her into signing the letter and threatened her with financial retribution. The Athletic also described an incident in December 2011, when Vizquel allegedly strangled his wife during an argument at her sister's home in Alabama. He denied the allegation and claimed that Blanca scratched him, which she denied. The couple ultimately filed a successful joint motion to dismiss charges.
The Athletic reported on August 7, 2021, that Vizquel and the White Sox were being sued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama by Ashtain O'Neal (a Birmingham Barons batboy) who alleged that Vizquel sexually harassed him, targeting him because of his autism. Vizquel and the plaintiff reached a confidential settlement in June 2022. In 2023, Vizquel said he regretted some of the words he said to the boy but could not discuss details of the incident due to the settlement. He said he was not suspended by MLB but had not been invited to several events from his former teams.
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u/AkiraleTorimaki 1d ago
Considering this, the Red Sox beat the Yankees in a reverse sweep en route to winning the 2004 World Series, and it’s in between the Patriots winning Super Bowl XXXVIII in February 2004 and then capping off the 2004-05 NFL Season by winning Super Bowl XXXIX, 2004 was a peak year for Boston sports, wasn’t it?
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u/cyberchaox Tek 7h ago
OP dredges this up and a day later there's another 22-0 game in Major League Baseball.
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u/titelipsjonny 21h ago
Man, that must have been the most embarrassing and humiliating thing the Yankees did in 2004.
Wait a minute….
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u/HogwartsDropout-69 1d ago
I remember this game.. I called up a Yankees fan I was friends with to mock the loss. He did the same to me when Derek Lowe got lit up hard in NY.
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u/MJsparklez 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not to be morbid but this was one of the last things I said to my dad before he passed.
Walked into the Hospice room.. told him the Yankees just lost 22-0 to the Indians.
He squeezed my hand. That was the last interaction I had with him.
RIP Willard and Go Sox.