It's About Time

Hate to say I told you so, but it seems people are starting to come around to my way of thinking on this whole Dice-K thing. In the Boston Herald today, Steve Buckley describes how the Japanese "phenom" was pitching so poorly last night — he gave up seven runs on 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings — that the crowds were "begging, pleading, with manager Terry Francona to get Matsuzaka out of the game. And Francona was anxious to accommodate them." Ouch. And then he goes on to say, "There’s no way other way to put this: Matsuzaka has been lousy in three of his past four outings. In those four starts, three of them losses, he has allowed 20 earned runs in 23 2/3 innings, which works out to a 7.60 ERA." In short: Dice-K sucks. Still. Who'da thunk 10 runs wouldn't be enough to win last night's game? And sure, Dice-K didn't give up all 10 runs (the Sox eventually won the game 13-10), but he gave up most of them, and set the stage for the other three. So I say welcome to my bandwagon, Steve. It's nice to have some company.