Word: bullpen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except in the bleachers, where a "fan" threw an M-80 into the Red Sox bullpen...
...teams are writing on a completely blank sheet of paper on opening day. The bullpen's ten blown saves last season mean nothing now. Mo Vaughn's 25 home runs mean nothing, too, Eighty-six years of World Championship drought means nothing. Only what happens in the next 162 games matters...
...movie is slovenly about details. Relief pitchers sit in the dugout instead of the bullpen, and they enter the game without warming up; a significant plot point depends on a deliberate misunderstanding of how player contracts work; and everyone is so busy building a triumphant ending that the most basic inner logic of baseball is defied...
...everyone on the bench have a chance to nget into the game. Junior Bill Madden and sophomores Bryan Brissette and Joe Weidenbach each collected a base hit in relief, while sophomore Dom Giomarco and freshmen Kevin Correa and Scott Parrot saw their first action of the season. Bullpen catcher sophomore Steve Sadoski caught the final inning...
...wise old manager, quits to concentrate on drinking and fishing, and is replaced by the Little Maniac, a pugnacious, team-wrecking Billy Martin caricature. Moses Yellowhorse, the lunatic fireballer, haunts the ball park, and so does Eileen the Bullpen Queen, an annie so astonishingly trashy that the players remember her name. The novel flows with lovely nonsense, summer after summer, until it is necessary to give Barr a slump so that he can recover and win the Series one more time. Author Baker slumps here, just a bit, then finds his groove again...