Let this be the final word about those people who still won't forgive Bill Buckner.
I know I'm late in writing about this, but last week was hectic with the folding of the Boston Now newspaper and the shutdown of their website. I found it disturbing that WBZ-TV's John Keller and one of the sports bloggers at the late Boston Now newspaper were not going to forgive Bill Buckner for letting that baseball roll pass his glove and in between his feet at that World Series game in 1986. They are both aware that the Red Sox baseball team has won two World Series since 1986. The most recent win being just last October.
I was never mad at Buckner because I'm not a baseball fan (I'm not into any type of sports). The media has exploited that video clip of him too many times. They fueled that anger towards him placing the blame of the Red Sox losing that World Series on him. I don't know why the media did that. I happen to be a news addict and always when I was watching the sports segment of a newscast during baseball season I would always see Bill Buchner's famous mistake on the baseball field. The media certainly made him a celebrity with that video.
Two weeks ago, Buckner was invited to throw the first ball on Opening Day at Fenway Park. He got a standing ovation and it looked like all was forgiven, but John Keller, the WBZ political analyst, said that evening that he wouldn't forgive him. Many people disagreed with him, including one of the WBZ sports staff. In the Boston Now newspaper, a 16-year-old female sports blogger for the paper wouldn't forgive Buckner because he broke her daddy's heart who was at that World Series game in 1986. I can understand that she didn't like seeing her daddy get hurt, but her daddy is setting a bad example. Her last blog said that she would think about forgiveness although she can't forget that Buckner hurt her daddy's feelings. She described herself as a "Daddy's Girl."
I'm a "Daddy's Girl" too, but my daddy isn't a baseball fan. He once called baseball as "boring as cricket." My daddy played cricket while he was growing up in Antigua in the Carribean. He tried to like baseball and did watch games. He remembers the Washington Senators baseball team (I'm originally from Washington, DC).
One time while he and my mother were visiting me here inBoston in 1989, we watched Bob Lobel doing the WBZ sports news segment which included video clips of past Red Sox players. Daddy told me that the only memorable Red Sox player was Yastrzemski. I told him that Yaz retired a few years ago.
Then, that famous film clip appeared on screen. I pointed at my TV set and told my daddy, "That's Bill Buckner!" Now, my daddy remembers two Red Sox players.
My daddy is a big football fan. I never saw him get mad at any of the Redskins. Not even after he had a heart attack at a Redskins football game in 2002. He said that the chest pains started before the game. The real culprit was his diabetes.
I don't understand the passion people have for sports, but I recommend that forgiveness is good because hating another person for more than 20 years is a waste of energy. Time to release that hatred and heal. You'll feel better for it, and that's the truth.
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