Low Moment
David Shepherd goes toe- to- toe with Dan Shaughnessy

October 2, 2002

David Shepherd e- mailed Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy regarding his September 30, 2002 column. The column was a wrap- up of the Boston Red Sox 2002 season containing the the following quote, "The high point of the 2002 Sox season probably was Derek Lowe's no-hitter at Fenway, or perhaps Shea Hillenbrand's homer off Mariano Rivera. The low moment forever will be Ramirez's disgrace in the batter's box in Tampa."

Click here for Shaughnessy's entire column.

From: DanBambino@aol.com
To: David Shepherd
Subject: Re: Low Moment
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:30:40 EDT

David Shepherd

david -
my father died in 1979

my globe emails are automatically forwarded. i hit reply and that's it. guess that would be mailing it in, eh?

dan shaughnessy

From: David Shepherd
To: DanBambino@aol.com
Subject: Re: Low Moment
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:50:18 EDT

Wow, Dan, apparently you mail in your responses, as well as your columns. I bet your father can beat up my father too, right?

david shepherd

From: DanBambino@aol.com
To: David Shepherd
Subject: Re: Low Moment
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:55:46 EDT

david --
sorry my lack of talent is so disappointing to you. i am sure that you, on the other hand, are at the very top of your field.
cheers,
shaughnessy

-----Original Message-----
From: David Shepherd
To: dshaughnessy@globe.com
Subject: Re: Low Moment
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:55:46 EDT

Dan,

I think you hit an all-time low today(which is saying a lot!) when you claimed the low moment(Forever?) for the Sox this whole year was Manny not running out that ground ball at Tampa Bay. It's an indefensible claim for low moment considering 1) he apologized to his manager & teammates immediately afterwards 2) the Sox had already dropped out of the playoff race & 3)he WON the game for them a couple innings later with a HR. There were about 150 moments lower(how about Urbina giving up the 3 run homer to Sandberg to allow the horrible Devil Rays to score 5 runs in the ninth with no outs after Sox leading 4-0 behing DLowe entering the inning OR El Guapo giving up the grand slam to Enrique Wilson & 2 run bomb to Giambi to blow the game against the Yanks June 1st?).

S I D E N O T E

The Red Sox won the game during which Manny did not run out the groundball. A win is not really a low point.

And you guys wonder why Manny won't talk to the press. He was dogged continually for weeks by you and your brethren for a relatively small lapse in judgement. He apologized to his manager & teammates, and went on to have a great last 6 weeks of the season. That and the fact, it was not an intentional move by him to show up his manager or management- it was a frustrated hitter who has a tendency to do similar things and has for years. It was a minor story for one day-that's it, move on!

David Shepherd
Brookline, MA