Connelly’s Top Ten - Red Sox - Who Cares
1. Longest consecutive years coaching per each team
Patriots - Belichick……..20
Red Sox - Cronin……….13
Celtics - Auerbach………16
Bruins - Ross and Julien…10
2. Red Sox
* Betts wants $35mm a year and he is right now the fourth best positional player on his own team
* Should have traded Bradley in June when he hit .315 for the month / he is hitting .143 in August
* Red Sox should have paid Bill Belichick as a consultant on how to assemble a roster after a championship - combined home runs and wins from Pierce and Evoldi = 1
3. Red Sox are 28-33 when Porcello, Price and Sale start a game.
4. Players that played for the Celtics from the 1978 draft:
#3 - Rick Robey
#6 - Larry Bird
#30 - Jeff Justin’s
#64 - Gerald Henderson
5. Patriots three high profile draft picks at quarterback in their last year at college:
Jimmy G…….568 attempts / 53 TD / 9 INT(1 INT every 63 passes) / 5.9 TD to INT
Stidham……..369 attempts / 18 TD / 5 INT (1 INT every 74 passes) / 3.6 TD to INT
Brady…………295 attempts / 16 TD / 6 INT (1 INT every 49 passes) / 2.7 TD to INT
6. The A’s and Rays have a combined payroll of $155mm and are a combined 35 games over .500 / the Red Sox payroll is first in baseball at $227mm and are Four games over .500
7. Old School - On August 22, 1979 the Red Sox beat the Twins 9-4 / five pitchers were used / game time 1:59
8. Amazing Stats - Bogaerts and Devers have a chance for a combined 250 RBI - what other tandem did that for the Sox:
* Williams / Stephens - 1939……318
* Ortiz / Manny - 2005…………….292
* Dropo / Stephens - 1950………288
* Foxx / Higgins - 1938…………..281
* Ortiz / Manny…………………….
* Lynn / Rice - 1979……………….252
* Williams / Cronin 1939…………252
9. Just a Little Bit Outside - War movies that won the Oscar by war:
WWI - All Quiet on the Western Front
WWII - Best Years of Our Life, Patton, Schindler’s List, Bridge on the River Kwai, From Here to Eternity, Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, English Patient
Vietnam - Platoon, Deer Hunter
Iraq - Hurt Locker
10. Randomocity
* Dear Judge - Epstein won’t be able to make it to court - Signed Epstein’s Mother
* Brady has started a craze - any sporting event - players yell - “Lets go!”
* Great point by Dan Shaughnessy - Red Sox have only allowed one “black” act sing at Fenway out of 66 concerts - i guess they were projecting when they came at Tom Yawkey
* The punt return touchdown by Cleveland Brown Damon Sheehy-Giuseppi was as special as sports gets - a former homeless man who begged and lied himself into a tryout - the reaction from his teammates running into the end zone was what sports used to be like - fun and caring about teammates
