Tributes pour in for baseball legend Bill Buckner

1. Dude the base runner was almost at first when the ball goes through his legs even if he got it no way he’s making that play

2. Hmm, he wasn’t invited back until after the WS wins. 🙄 Total bullshit….

3. journalism at its worst !!!!!!!

4. "I see the play and switch the channel" abc starts with the frickin play.

5. I like how they only showed 2 seconds of the standing ovation he got at Fenway in 1990

6. Larry David served him right

7. Strange how things turn out with his dementia. He probably burnt out his brains always thinking about that play every single day. Really, he was tormented for years and probably never forgave himself.

8. A great ballplayer even if you factored in a dozen plays like the Mookie Wilson ground ball…and a great person for the class, perspective, and good humor he maintained in the years after his retirement from the MLB.

9. Stop blaming him. The pitcher messed up a few times. WILD PITCH!

10. You know if he had gotten to 3000 hits I believe that pretty much automatically would have put him in the HOF (in the 80s anyway)

11. I like how salty red sox's fans are till they get good then learn to love Bill buckner.

12. This Bostonian will never forgive Buckner. He’s garbage

13. He wasn’t gonna make it to the bag in time anyways. I feel so bad for him and I cried when he went back to Fenway.

14. Just another despicable story about this man. Absolutely incredible that you would make this "tribute" about the one play. He deserved better. He was g*d da*ned good ball player and seemed like a good man as well.

15. Buckner's error may have made him infamous, but he more than made up for it with his future heroics. I hope his rest is peaceful. It's also awesome knowing how the Boston fans forgave him for his miscue, when they won the 2004 world series.

16. F ABC for starting of this “tribute” with Game 6. Dicks.

17. How the fuck do you make a tribute video but make the whole thing about one blunder in his career? Fuck off.

18. Shame you would play the infamous moment when tributizing him @gma

19. Key points to remember:

    1. Buckner was only on the field because John McNamara (Red Sox manager) wanted him to be on the field to celebrate. Buckner was hurt and had no business being out there. He could barely move!

    2. Mookie Wilson would have beaten Buckner to the bag. At that point, Howard Johnson comes to bat with 1st and 3rd and the inning continues. That's also why Buckner missed the ball. He was rushing!

    3. Bob Stanley is the one who blew this game, not Buckner. He is the one who threw a wild pitch which allowed Mitchell to score the tying run!

    4. The Red Sox were up 3-0 in Game 7 and still could have won. They had Bruce Hurst pitching who had already beaten the Mets TWICE in the series, but they coughed up the lead and lost!

    Buckner to blame for 1986? HARDLY!

20. The worst was when people threatened the guy for what happened. Terrible, I remember as an S.F. Giants fan when Buckner played for the Dodgers & Cubs. This play cost him a Hall of Fame Bid, made his family move away from threats to him. The things people said on the radio about the guy. Imagine how Buckner felt about the play that lost the game.Its too bad the Red Sox didn't win the series in 86' since this play would've been forgiven. You lose as a team, when you root for a team you go down with them, you celebrate with them as well when they win.

21. no one wants to remember there was also a game 7 which boston was winning at one point

22. Meh he deserved to die

23. what red sox fans didnt understand and didnt realize is that when the mets tied the game on the wild pitch whether the ball went under buckners legs or not the mets still would of won the game was over once the mets tied the game the red sox couldnt recover from that

24. FAKE NEWS: It did not cost the Red Sox Game 6 of the World Series. Game was tied 5-5 and emotionally lost at that point. I know, being a huge Red Sox fan in 1986 and a sports journalist. Stupid media blamed him to appease stupid obnoxious fans.

25. Buckner was a great player. Over 22 years, his batting average was .289 (#415 in baseball history) and he had nearly 3,000 hits. And no, it was not his fault that they lost the World Series anymore than it was Scott Norwood’s fault that the Bills lost the Super Bowl or Steve Bartman’s fault that the Cubs lost in 2003. The Red Sox shouldn’t have been in that position to begin with, and it was only Game 6.

26. RIP 🙏 Bill

27. I have been a Cubs fan since 1967. Bill Buckner is, was, and always will be my favorite player. He played with an unparalleled intensity, despite longstanding ankle issues. His talent prevailed through many less-than-stellar Cub seasons. Cubs Nation has fallen on black days with his premature passing. RIP, 22 Bill Buckner 22

28. Rest in Peace Bill Buckner. You were a great ball player.

29. Boston fans “scum of the sports world”

30. These reporters suck!!!

31. If Buckner had fielded the ball cleanly, there is a good chance that Mookie Wilson would have beaten him to the bag anyway.

32. How the hell are you gonna make a tribute and open up with the play, cmon

33. People forget that Buckner's legs were shot, and that his legs were so heavily taped and wrapped that he could barely bend over!! I'll remember him for his heroics as a Dodger!!
    🔥💜🔥

34. RIP

35. We hardly knew ye, Billy.

36. He missed that ball on PURPOSE morons, just like Matt Ryan and Devonta Freeman laid down in the 2nd half of Superbowl LI to let the Patriots come back on LEAGUE COMMAND. Buckner's PURPOSEFUL miss is covered by author Brian Tuohy of "The Fix Is In : The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, & NASCAR."

37. In his casket they should put a baseball between his legs

38. RIP Bill Buckner and you was a very good baseball player

39. Rip Bill.

40. 🤫..I renamed my penis…Bill Buckner….. because of the balls between my legs..🤗

41. Deport the Cheating city of Boston 2 Nazi Germany or Mississippi .. Racist ugly Trump city 😋

42. Boston Red Sox fans are Evil !!! 🤔

43. You win as a team you lose as a team. Buckner never deserved to be known for that play. He didn't throw the wild pitch, he didn't blow a series lead. The error came in a tie game. The red Sox weren't winning. They already had blown the lead. Shameful really. Buckner was a great player who never should've went through that.

44. Game was tied when the error was made, so there was no guarantee the Sox would have won the game anyway, especially on the road with a flimsy bullpen. McNamara, Gedman, Stanley, Schiraldi all played significant roles in setting up that collapse. Clemens, too, if it's true he asked out, as McNamara claimed.

45. if the ball didnt go under buckners legs and the inning is over in all probability the mets still win because they had all the momentum from tying the game

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