RIP Tim Wakefield

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Spartan Squad]

Oh geez. Only 57. He was such a staple of the Sox. RIP

 

[User 149557]

Noted piece of **** Curt Schilling revealed Wakefield —along with revealing Wakefield’s wife’s cancer diagnosis— had brain cancer without their permission days ago.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

That knuckleball looked like something a weekend warrior could throw but stymied the best hitters in the world.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

This just sucks. So terrible.

 

[Octave]

I thought Wakefield had a near-death accident when he was hit by a car either while jogging or biking, in spring training years ago.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Tim Wakefield: Knuckleball.
Curt Schilling: Knucklehead.

 

[Songbird]

Wish I would have taken a better photo of this.

Watched on a small TV in a hotel in Rio Blanco and kept score because Yanks/Sox Game 7.

One of the nuttier moments in my baseball life. Always had a soft spot for Wakefield after giving up the homer.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

In the visitor's clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, while the mob howled for Grady Little's head (delivered the next day), Wakefield stood in front of his locker and took the entire responsibility for the loss because he gave up Boone's homer. Well, of course he was wrong, but I admired his sense of professional honor.

 

[Songbird]

It would be pretty nutty if the Yanks fire Boone today though I doubt they would.

 

[Octave]

Phillies should remove Curt Schilling’s Wall of Fame plaque and cut ties with the former ace

http://www.inquirer.com/phillies/curt-schilling-wakefield-phillies-wall-of-fame-20230930.html

 

[HanSenSE]

Mourn the loss, but dammit, Schilling remains a prick.

 

[micropolitan guy]

IIRC he transitioned to a knuckleball pitcher while in the Pirates organization, playing for Buffalo, which was in the American Association at the time.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Can only echo what others have said ... RIP Tim Wakefield and **** Curt Schilling with a rusty chainsaw.

 

[Octave]

Don't know what Schilling was thinking, or what he felt he had to gain from disclosing something people didn't want disclosed.
Perhaps true mental illness at play rather than assholery. He is a person who can't control himself and there's a long record of it.

 

[hondo]

Don't know what Schilling was thinking, or what he felt he had to gain from disclosing something people didn't want disclosed.
Perhaps true mental illness at play rather than assholery. He is a person who can't control himself and there's a long record of it.

He's a ****ing Trumpie ... it's what they do.

 

[maumann]

Born in Melbourne. Eau Gallie High School grad before Prince Fielder wound up there. Went to Brevard Community College (never played a game before he quit) and was a power-hitting first baseman at Florida Tech. His dad taught him how to throw a knuckler but as micropolitan guy stated, it wasn't until he switched to pitching in the minors that he perfected it.

Weird to think guys like Wakefield and Brooks Robinson probably wouldn't even get drafted now because of analytics. He couldn't break a pane of glass but won 200 games in the bigs.

RIP.

 

[wicked]

Dan Duquette signed him in 1995 and he was one of the big reasons that team made the playoffs. I remember him getting yanked from a start after a couple innings, and Kevin Kennedy asked him to come back on two days’ rest. Might’ve been one day. Did it and never complained. Also was the closer for a season or two.

RIP.

 

[matt_garth]

 

[outofplace]

Oct. 8, 1992 was a long, weird, screwed-up night for me. I won't get into the story, but I was in a bad enough head space that I considered staying home the next night even though I had tickets to Game 3 of the NLCS. They were great seats, too. Things did not look promising. The Pirates had lost the first two games of the series. To put this in context, I was like many Pirates fans. We knew their run of being competitive was about to end. They were going to lose Barry Bonds and Doug Drabek to free agency. My mood was not improved by the thought that the NLCS seemed like it was going to be over before it started.

Wakefield just wouldn't allow it. He threw a complete game to beat the Braves. He actually threw two complete games in that series. He was the winning pitcher in Game 6 in Atlanta, too. Sure, it only delayed the inevitable heartache, but I'll never forget the way he battled through those two games. RIP Wake.