“I thought for beyond any doubt he was gonna, like, Andre the Monster, Mass Hogan, fair body pummel.”
It’s been 20 a long time since the Red Sox made history with their implausible run to a World Arrangement title in 2004.
A docuseries, titled “The Comeback:
2004 Boston Red Sox,” will see back at that unlikely travel. The docuseries doesn’t hit Netflix until Oct. 23, but the Red Sox advertised a sneak look through Twitter/X on Friday.
The scene centers on the kerfuffle between Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez within the July 24 amusement between the Red Sox and Yankees that season. When Bronson Arroyo hit Rodriguez within the arm with a pitch, Rodriguez questioned and Varitek took a stand. The rest is history.
Jed Hoyer, presently the Chicago Cubs’ president of baseball operations, said Theo Epstein bounced out of his situate and was pumped when the battle begun.
Epstein, the previous Ruddy Sox common supervisor and modeler of the 2004 group, excitedly advertised a see back two decades afterward.
“I couldn’t accept Tek put his hands in his confront like that,” Epstein said. “I have a idealize point when he goes down to scoop him up. I thought for beyond any doubt he was gonna, like, Andre the Mammoth, Mass Hogan, fair body slam.”
The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy said that up until that point, each bar room and family utilized to highlight Cardinal Richard Cushing and President John F. Kennedy.
“Now, it’s Jason Varitek stuffing his glove into Alex Rodriguez’s face,” Shaughnessy said.
As for the man himself, Varitek chuckled at the truth that he hit Rodriguez whereas wearing a veil.
“That’s what you think of within the minute, plays at the plate, anything you do,” Varitek said. “Oh, timeout. I overlooked I have my cover on. I wear this all the time. I’m gonna go put this over there. It is what it is.”
