Please Put Pesky Back
Baseball has done some pretty stupid things, but now they have gone too far, kicking Johnny Pesky out of the dugout. I thought they were ignorant last year, when they inducted 17 former “Negro League” players, and left off 94 year old Buck O’Neil last February, and he died in October. Now the Commissioner’s office has sent a stern memo to the Red Sox, threatening them with stiff fines, if they don’t comply with this edict. How does it help the Red Sox, and hurt other teams if Pesky is in the dugout? What if Boston had a petition, and asked every other team in the league, if they had any objections to Johnny being in the dugout? How about if MLB just institutes a 50 year rule. If you are in baseball for 50 years, you can sit in uniform in the dugout, anytime you feel like it. Don Zimmer and Red Schoendienst would also qualify under this rule.
It is time baseball uses common sense when they make a decision. Johnny Pesky is 87 years old, and still likes to put it on his baseball pants “one leg at a time..” Why doesn’t baseball get it, when it comes to the important things in life? Anyone who did not vote for Buck O’Neil should be banned from voting again. The person that signed this memo on Pesky should be tossed out of office. I challenge all fans of baseball to unite! Write to Bud at Bud.Selig@mlb.com Let Johnny Pesky sit in the dugout in 2007!
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The Fan’s Commish
Rick Swanson
April 17th, 2007 at 9:01 am
It’s not as easy as you put it. First off it’s an extra pair of eyes in the dugout and if, say, he sees the guy on second base trying to steal an instant before anyone else, and because his shouting alerted one of our guys then we have the unfair advantage of an extra pair of eyes in the dugout. Now saying that he’s keep quiet is like trying to tell me a puppy won’t bark in his new home. Pesky is a baseball fan, he couldn’t be quiet if he saw something like that. Unless I see otherwise, I have to agree with MLB. We are dealing no longer with a kids sport, there are millions of dollars involved in these games and any advantage is much bigger now that it was 50 years ago.
April 17th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Other than pesky’s amazing attention to possible stolen base situations, there is also the possiblilty he will magically fart and cause everyone to bat .850 with 98032129479 HR and feild perfectly.
Let him stay, he is a Red Sox in the purest sense of it. Watch the 04′ world series video when you can actually see him tear up. The team means the world to him, and he is simply not the make or break “pair of eyes” responsible for every Sox victory.