Buckner "slightly hopes" the Sox win if it means he will be left alone

[Champ]

So does Buckner, whose marvelous career is overshadowed by a single miscue, for his fielding blunder in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

Tired of all the grief, Buckner moved his family from Boston to Boise, Idaho, in 1993. Reached over the weekend by the Idaho Statesman, Buckner said he was attending the Boise State-Fresno State football game that night, adding that Game 1 didn't "mean squat to me."

Buckner also told the paper that he only "slightly" hoped the Red Sox prevailed.

"I have no strong feelings one way or another, but if (a Red Sox championship) would mean that no one would bother me or my kids, I guess I would like to see them win it," Buckner said.

That is a sad commentary, and Red Sox fans should take it to heart.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/1026bickley1026.html

[Spiffarino]

1. I used to watch Bill Buckner play in L.A.

He was a terrific player and a good guy. Blaming him for losing the World Series is like blaming the guy in Chicago for catching the ball in the stands at Wrigley last year. It was a small part of an overall undoing by an entire team, not by one person.

To those people who have no lives outside of their favorite sports team: You are sad, sick, twisted individuals. It's a fucking game. Your life, your hopes, and your dreams don't hinge on whether or not your team wins. Leave Bill and the rest of the poor schlemiels alone.

[Droopy]

2. The fact that Buckner has taken so much grief is evidence

that some people take sports too seriously. Best wishes to Buckner and I hope this series relieves him of all of the ill will.

[Mojambo]

3. Can't really blame the guy

for being less than enthused about any aspect of Red Sox baseball.

There have been child rapists that have been treated better than Bill Buckner.

Shame on anyone who ever gave him grief. They're pitiful little people, and this comes from a BIG baseball fan.

[WilliamPitt]

4. I want the Sox to bring him to the parade

so he can get a massive ovation, an embrace of love, and then we can let him go.

It can't happen any other way.

[VOX]

5. Billy Bucks wouldn't have booted that grounder if his teammates had...

done their job. He was made the whipping boy for a team failure.

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Y1EcU7mSc7wJ:espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/021016.html+bill+buckner+error+mets+inning&hl=en
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And Buckner didn't allow three two-out singles; that was doe-eyed closer Calvin Schiraldi. Buckner didn't unfurl a game-tying wild pitch to Wilson; that was Bob Stanley. And Buckner wasn't the one who couldn't block the pitch; that was Rich Gedman. Only after 16 pitches failed to clinch the game -- and only then -- did the cruel spotlight find him, following a lazy grounder that skipped along like a rabbit in a cornfield.
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[Champ]

6. Kick

:kick: