Fred Toucher and Jon Wallach went head-to-head in this 2004 Red Sox Players contest. Find out which Sports Hub seamhead won and play along.
We’re kicking the nostalgia machine into overdrive this week as we mark the 20-year anniversary of the 2004 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. There’s even a new Nexflix docuseries called The Comeback that celebrates the storied team.
I can’t wait to dig into the doc. I was lucky enough to get into Fenway Park for Game 1 and Game 2 of the ’04 Series. Jon Wallach was as well. Perhaps we’ll tell our stories on the show later this week, as we look back on those magical October days, 20 years on.
2004 Red Sox Players: Let’s Play a Game
In an effort to shoehorn some ’04 Red Sox talk into the show, I devised a fun game for the hosts to play. Jon Wallach is as big of a Red Sox fan as they come. And Freddy T loves his St. Louis Cardinals. So I decided to pit the two and their baseball acumen against each another.
I gave Hardy a list of players from the ’04 Sox and ’04 Cards rosters. Not star players. Bench guys. Bullpen guys. Mid-season acquisitions. Fred had to say if the Cardinals players appeared in the World Series. Jon had to do the same with the Sox. Only one man was triumphant.
2004 Red Sox Players: You Play Along
If you’d like to play, too, don’t listen to the podcast. Yet. Below, you’ll find the five Sox players we quizzed Jon on. Scroll down nice and slow and see if you can say if they made the ’04 World Series roster. Then, come back up and see if it’s Fred or Wallach that won the day!
