Red Sox/MLB 2023 Regular Season- IX: Former Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield and his wife are both battling cancer

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McGarnagle

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This is just awful all around

I love Wake, we went to maybe one game a year at best from around 2001 to 2008 or so and I swear it happened to be a Wakefield game for at least 66% of them. I have a soft spot for knuckleballers, and beyond that Wake is just a great, charitable guy that nobody has a bad word to say about. For someone like that to get this disease is crushing.

But what the f*** Curt, what the f***. Could this guy be a bigger piece of shit? What's wrong with this turd? Every time you think he can't stoop any lower...
 

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This is just awful. Wake was one of my favorite Red Sox when he pitched for Boston. That knuckleball was incredible when it was working, the ball would float all over the place and the batters had zero clue what to do with it. Plus Wake always seemed to be a genuinely good guy which honestly can't be said for most professional athletes.

I hope he can beat it and I'll definitely keep him in my prayers.
 

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I'm sure Curt revealed this intentionally to overshadow and memoryhole him flirting with the JQ on twitter earlier in the week. And that makes him even worse in my book, using someone else's private medical battle to run distraction on your shit.
 
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He's apparently claiming Mirabelli told him. That still doesn't give you the right to say anything. It is clear that his former teammates have know about this for some time yet they've all managed to keep it quiet.
Former players telling each other is normal. But of course it was Schilling who couldn't contain himself on a podcast. I was even gonna say he'll probably play dumb and say he thought it was public knowledge but didn't he actually say on the podcast "I'm not sure Wake wants this out there"?

I don't know how old the Wakefield children are but this is every child's nightmare, both parents down with life threatening illness at the same time. :(
Hopefully the entire family is together to throw out the first pitch on opening day
 

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I'm sure Curt revealed this intentionally to overshadow and memoryhole him flirting with the JQ on twitter earlier in the week. And that makes him even worse in my book, using someone else's private medical battle to run distraction on your shit.
Oh I am sure he thought this would make people forget about his latest anti semetic rant earlier in the day. It backfired on him. i've seen some Phillies fans want his plaque removed from their hall of fame over that and now this.
 

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Former players telling each other is normal. But of course it was Schilling who couldn't contain himself on a podcast. I was even gonna say he'll probably play dumb and say he thought it was public knowledge but didn't he actually say on the podcast "I'm not sure Wake wants this out there"?


Hopefully the entire family is together to throw out the first pitch on opening day
He did state that before he opened his big yapper.
 
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Fascinating case study indeed. I want to read a professional psychological analysis of him.

I'm positive that he's on the autism spectrum, but also combined with bits and pieces of narcissistic personality disorder and possible sociopathic tendencies. But I would be intrigued to read a deep dive from a legit psychologist.
Allow me to summarize: He's a f****** asshole. Period.
 

McGarnagle

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Reports are that former teammates and those in the organization are pissed at this.
The press statement the Red Sox sent out earlier threw him under the bus, not hard to read between the lines.

He was already on thin ice with a lot of people, but I think he's persona non grata now. I'd sooner see the organization build a statue to Roger Clemens than let that dink ever throw out a first pitch or take part in an anniversary ceremony again.
 

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I just saw this on another site and share it here I wonder it the red thing on his sock was ketchup instead of blood. So funny to me. LOL
 

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The press statement the Red Sox sent out earlier threw him under the bus, not hard to read between the lines.

He was already on thin ice with a lot of people, but I think he's persona non grata now. I'd sooner see the organization build a statue to Roger Clemens than let that dink ever throw out a first pitch or take part in an anniversary ceremony again.
Not to get off topic, and while he made decisions to help only himself at points, Roger Clemens is not 1/100 the pig Schilling is. He gives his time to the Jimmy Fund and was active when he was a Sox. Schill only does what benefits him and cares about no one else, or so it seems
 
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Just crazy to do that to Wakefield of all people. I remember always trying to imitate a knuckler as a kid. 1996 was my first ever Sox game and it was Wakefield against the Blue Jays. Just terrible all around.
 
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McGarnagle

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Not to get off topic, and while he made decisions to help only himself at points, Roger Clemens is not 1/100 the pig Schilling is. He gives his time to the Jimmy Fund and was active when he was a Sox. Schill only does what benefits him and cares about no one else, or so it seems
The (alleged) Mindy McCready thing is holding me back from a complete rehabilitation of Clemens here, but otherwise he's been classy post-retirement and his issues with the organization were mostly just his vindictiveness toward Dan Duquette after Duquette tried to dismiss him as being in the twilight of his career after he let him walk in free agency and the fact that he pushed his way to the Yankees.

Johnny Damon is the one I feel bad for, he never got a serious offer from the Red Sox, the only teams he was talking to that off-season were Detroit and the Yankees, and once Detroit decided to go with Granderson in center literally nobody other than the Yankees made a legit pitch for him. He got too much shit from the fans for ending up there.
 
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