Sad to note the passing of one of my Red Sox guys, Mike Greenwell was just 62. A good guy,fierce hitter and a solid interview. When he was a rookie, I got him to show us how to tame a wild, if inflated, gator, since that was his nickname. Plus this awesome Ned Martin highlight.
damn. RIP Mike Greenwell. listen, you kids today don't know...
peak late 80s and early 90s Gator Greenwell was a legend... i mean you have to imagine being an 8 or 10 or 12 year old Boston kid into baseball and you've got this guy... Mike Greenwell, who has a nickname "Gator"...
and he's a good baseball player... hits .300... leads the league in game winning RBIs... bunch of home runs...
should have beat Jose Canseco for MVP in '88....
but there's this other thing... the Gator thing... not only is this dude the heir apparent to Ted and Yaz and Rice, but when he's not playing baseball... he's freaking WRESTLING ALLIGATORS...
can you imagine a more made-for-young-dudes to root for athlete? an MLB all-star who also wrestles alligators?
so he puts together a few all-star seasons before he fizzles out of baseball in the mid-90s and instead of fading away he does another awesome thing: he starts racing stock cars... insane...
MLB All-Star. Gator Wrestler. Stock Car Racer.
now that's a triple crown...
i've been fascinated with Greenwell since I was 8...
i even tried several times to write his biography, tracking his kids down at the mini-golf course Greenwell owned... but he wasn't interested. no problem.
his life still was a hell of a story.
i've had this poster up in every place i've lived since the 3rd grade. it anchors my garage gym now. always will.
RIP Gator.
People forget how good Mike Greenwell was in 1988. Only Canseco had a better year (steroids enhanced). Greenwell was above Kirby Puckett, Dave Winfield, Dennis Eckersley, Wade Boggs, Alan Trammell, Paul Molitor, teammate Dwight Evans, Frank Viola, Robin Yount et all. RIP 🕊⚾️
RIP MIKE GREENWELL
Check out this great coverage of his bananas 9-RBI game!
- Set record for most RBIs where he drove in all his team’s runs
- Played just 23 more games & retired
- Sweet Lou tossed
- Arod’s 40th career HR. He was 20
- Clemens made just 5 more starts w Sox
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Red Sox Hall of Famer Mike Greenwell.
“The Gator” spent his entire career in a Red Sox uniform and was a beloved fixture of Fenway and Fort Myers. He gave so much to Lee County and Sox Nation.
We send our love to the Greenwell family.
@shanesmiley@kangaroos991 OK!
I’m off this garbage app for another 6-12 months, see you after the election!
PS - Stolen election, 2000 Mules, Antifa did Jan 6th, Fauci is a bad guy, Hilary runs a child trafficking ring… just a few more Trump misinformation campaigns you must have missed 🤷♂️)
@shanesmiley@kangaroos991 PS - they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.
In a presidential debate.
There’s an easy piece of disinformation being pushed by Trumpublicans.
I mean, that and 100,000 other things, but that’s an easy one for the example you asked for!
@shanesmiley Awesome! I agree!
Equal Rights:
MAGA Banning books from schools that feature straight couples AND gay couples b/c it’s assumed parents have sex.
Superior Rights:
Only allowing straight couples to appear in children’s literature.
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@shanesmiley Look up all the former prolife voters who had a “change of heart” once they or their family needed an abortion.
Yes-It’s nice to see a conservative come around.
But it’d be better if they came to that conclusion BEFORE it personally affected them.
100% Selfish-No compassion.
@keithedwards Talking about it without seeing the video is kinda…trashy bullshit?
Sure, that sounds on brand for Trump, but dangling a video without releasing it is grifter bullshit.
Besides, if his 729 real crimes/scandals aren’t enough to change MAGA minds… this won’t either. 🤷♂️
Her family found her murdered body right where they told the Sheriff dept to look, and where the Sheriff assured them they had already searched.
Law Enforcement doesn’t care about people, only $$
Prior to marrying Melania in January 2005, Trump was calling Jeffrey Epstein in 2004 on the regular.
We see Donalds phone messages in the West Palm Beach indictment of Epstein, released today. His messages are in between girls calling to confirm “massage appointments” and messages from disgraced modeling agent Jean Luc Brunel.
What did they talk about?