Archives: April, 2007

Ricky — April 8, 2007, 8:52 pm

He’s Schill got it!

Wasn’t that such an excellent pun! Man, I crack myself up! ;-) Anyway, I don’t want to throw around any “I told you so’s”, but that was a good one from Schilling, eh? Aside from a solo home run by his arch-nemesis Frank Catalanotto, Curt held the entire Rangers lineup in perpetual check. Wiping the [...]

Ricky — April 6, 2007, 3:37 pm

On a similar note

Both The Boston Globe and Boston Herald were thinking along the same lines in both headlines and photographs. “Dice-KKKKKKKKKK” screamed both papers on their main front pages, posting a ‘K’ for each of his 10 strikeouts. [. . .] The Herald’s sports page on the back employed the headline, “The Dice Is Right!” — Mike [...]

Ricky — April 5, 2007, 4:03 pm

Hop on that dead horse!

We’re only 3 games into the Sox season, and there’s already some factiods and sayings that have been regurgitated a few too many times. For example: Dustin Pedrioa is the first rookie to open the season as a starter since Shea Hillenbrand in 2001. Dustin Pedrioa is the 12th opening day second baseman in 13 [...]

Ricky — , 3:55 pm

Race for the Ace

The Sox have officially won their first series of the season, mirroring the 7-1 score last night and beating Kansas City 4-1 tonight. Schilling stumbled out of the gate, but Josh Beckett and Daisuke Matsuzaka both jumped out to lead the race for ’07 staff ace. I’m sure Schill will be fired up for his [...]

Ricky — April 2, 2007, 9:06 pm

Ouch

The Sox got their first big stinker out of the way today, in the form of a 7-1 drubbing by the Kansas City Royals (yes, those Kansas City Royals). Gil Meche justified his contract for at least a day, and Schill had pretty much nothing good to throw for hopefully just a day. Now that [...]