If These Walls Could Talk by Jerry Remy & Nick Cafardo

Author:Jerry Remy & Nick Cafardo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-16T03:21:45+00:00

8. 2013

All of the championships were special, but the one in 2013 was emotional. The season started with the Boston Marathon bombings right down the street from Fenway.

We had played our 11:00 am Patriots’ Day game on April 15 and then the team bussed to the airport for a trip to Cleveland.

The players could hear little explosions in the distance as our bus took off for the airport.

Little did we know at the time that terrorists had set off bombs along the marathon route. A huge tragedy was in progress.

The players got to Cleveland and played their series there, all along trying to get together as a team to contribute something in their own way. I think that really brought this group together. They had something to band together over and you just noticed it all season.

The team wore black armbands and there was a banner hanging over the Red Sox dugout with the 617 area code.

We were scheduled to play the Royals back at Fenway on April 19, but the city was on lockdown because they were searching for the bombing suspects. It was just a surreal situation. You saw video on TV of the city and it looked like a ghost town. It was a scary time, but they caught the second suspect in Watertown, not far from the NESN studios.

This was a team like no other I had experienced. General manager Ben Cherington did an absolutely incredible job shaking off the last-place finish of 2012 and trying to regroup the team after the disaster of the Bobby Valentine year.

Cherington brought in manager John Farrell, whom he acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays after he negotiated his release. Cherington brought in several new faces, veterans who had won in other places and who had perhaps not had the best of years in 2012 but hoped they would rebound.

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