I guess sometimes it’s good to be patient. After Dice-K’s latest beating on Friday I was about ready to recommend he be treated like a horse with a broken leg. And then I went on ESPN.com and saw the headline “Red Sox Put Dice-K on DL.” Hallelujah! My prayers had been answered! Of course, for him to go to the DL, there has to be something wrong with him, right? So I clicked on the link and found that his DL stint is attributable to “shoulder strain.” Or, in technical terms: “general suckage.” Now we just need to find the “general suckage” DL term for H1N1E6.

The team responded to Theo’s move with a complete game shutout from Beckett on Saturday. Sadly Beckett’s Saturday opponent was D-Lowe. I’m a Red Sox fan first and a sentimental guy second, so I was of course happy to see the Sox beat D-Lowe’s current team. It’s just too bad that the rotations couldn’t have been aligned a little differently so that Dice-K’s automatic loss could have come against 2004 playoff hero D-Lowe at Fenway. Plus, I’m a fantasy owner 3rd, and I could have used the win this week.

Then on Father’s Day, after blowing leads of 4-1, 4-2, and 5-4, and Paps loading the bases in the top of the 9th only to escape the jam with the game still knotted at five, the Sox got an unlikely hero in the bottom of the 9th: the wind. Oh, I guess NICK GREEEEENNN!!!! deserves credit too (he’s somewhere under the mob in that picture). It takes skill to hit a medium deep fly ball to right field knowing that the 20mph gusting winds will grab it, and push it into the stands just past the Pesky Pole. NICK must have rubbed Pesky’s head in the clubhouse in between innings, because it was a classic Pesky home run*. You might even call it a Father’s Day Miracle (what’s less likely, six runs in the 9th, or a NICK GREEEEEEN home run?). The only downside was that we didn’t get to decrease the Timmeh to 193 counter after the victory, although the Bobby Cox ejection total did rise by one.

*I say having never seen Johnny Pesky hit a homer.