Word: zimmerer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zimmer made some controversial changes in the lineup, benching all-star right fielder Dwight Evans for Jim Rice and playing utility infielder Jack Brohamer for a hurting Butch Hobson...
...fine," Evans said, slumping over the top of his chair in the clubhouse. "After playing 146 ball games for the man, this hurts. You'll have to ask Zimmer why I'm not playing...
...there clearly has a bone to pick with us (it could have something to do with missing Mass last week), 'cause the locals turned right around to sweep the New Yorkers and take two of three from the bloated beer-swillers from the Great Midwest. And all you Don Zimmer fans out there had a chance to chuckle and shine up your magnetic baseball caps and write us nasty letters about how maybe we should take lessons from the Amazing Kreskin. Well, you could be right, but don't go out and mortgage the family farm...
...Poor Don Zimmer. No one has ever accused the pleasantly, permanently befuddled Bosox manager of knowing much about ornithology, but over the past two weeks he's watched his boys do a frighteningly accurate impression of a dying turkey. In fact, almost all the teams in American League have been giving the Sox the bird of late, as Zim has presided over a choke of near spectacular proportions. The locals, who were once playing so high they were reportedly considered as extras in Star Wars II, now look much more reminiscent of The Bad News Bears--that monstrous 10-game...
...only fun thing about the Sox's slump is watching Don Zimmer try to figure out what to do. His club has been on autopilot so long, he must be going nuts trying to think of a way out of it. But it will have to end in and of itself, as these things do, and in the meantime, the race in the A.L. East will continue to heat...