October 26, 2004
HE WATCHED THE LAST FEW INNINGS WITH ROSIE RUIZ (via Glenn Dryfoos):
Kerry in Boston, at Game 6 on same night (Darren Rovell, 10/26/04, ESPN.com)
In interviews with ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, Kerry recalled his sufferings as a Boston Red Sox fan as Bill Buckner failed to field a ground ball hit by Mookie Wilson with two outs in the 10th inning. The Mets rallied to win that game, 6-5, and Game 7 two nights later, extending Boston's World Series drought that followed its title in 1918."Do I believe in it?" Kerry said in response to a question about the Red Sox's supposed Curse of the Bambino. "No, but it certainly makes a powerful argument from time to time. I mean, I don't believe in curses, but I do think that we've been under a cloud here and there. I was 30 yards away from Billy Buckner in that famous Shea Stadium game in '86. So I've been there in the heartbreaks. And I was screaming at the television set when Grady [Little] did not pull Pedro [Martinez] out."
Web bloggers point to a Boston Globe article from Oct. 26, 1986, the day after Game 6 of the World Series, in which Kerry was noted to have attended the Massachusetts Latino Democratic Committee banquet the night before at the World Trade Center in South Boston.
"Sen. Kerry attended a public event in [Massachusetts] in the early evening and hopped a shuttle flight from Boston to NYC. [Kerry] got to Shea with the game in progress," Michael Meehan, Kerry's senior campaign advisor, wrote to ESPN.com in an e-mail. [...]
Kerry had also claimed to have run in the Boston Marathon in the late 1970s or early '80s, though no records of his finish exist. Meehan said Kerry ran the race unofficially "as a bandit."
Brother Dryfoos played in a celebrity gold tournament yesterday with several former major leaguers, one of whom said he didn't care if the Senator actually is an intellectual and a wind-surfer-type, but did mind him pretending to be a Joe Sixpack. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 26, 2004 12:21 PM
Did Kerry report the gift of the ticket to this game on his Senate record? Back then, he was poor as mud and living on someone's couch, I believe.
Tickets to that game, on the first base side, must have been at least $200-300.
Come on, NYT, show us your stuff!
Posted by: jim hamlen at October 26, 2004 02:17 PMI was at Game 6 in 1986 and was offered $1500 for my field level box seat in the parking lot before the game...and the guy showed me the cash. Even though I was a starving student at the time, I am forever grateful that I turned him down and went inside to see the game.
Posted by: Foos at October 26, 2004 04:26 PMIs there anyone on the planet who believes that Kerry ran the Boston Marathon, but has no idea what year he did so, or what his time was?
Posted by: brian at October 26, 2004 04:31 PMThis is funny and all, but today's WaPo tracker had W down 2. So much for the weekend theory.
Also, bad news on state polls.
Hate to lose to such a jackass, but not confident right now.
Posted by: JAB at October 26, 2004 05:49 PMRemember - ESPN is owned by ABC.
Recall the Halperin memo?
Posted by: Oswald Booth Oswald Booth Czolgosz at October 26, 2004 10:06 PM