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 [...]

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 Petraglia / [...]

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 seasons./Julio [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]