Move over, Willis Reed. Tonight, Curt Schilling duplicated your performance coming out to start Game 7 of the NBA Finals in 1970. Bad ankle and all, he managed to will his Red Sox into a Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS. Mr. Foulke made it a little scary there in the ninth, but the side of good prevailed. What a stalwart effort.
Posted by Linkmeister at October 19, 2004 08:30 PMMuch more impressive than Reed, who was more inspiration (the first four points of the game, none thereafter) than exemplar in that May 8, 1970 game.
Granted, this was Game 6 of a "semifinal", as opposed to Game 7 of the finals, but Schilling did the deed as well as setting the tone.
Of course, this is just the Sox building us all up to a tremendous crescendo, just to fall in flames at the last possible moment. We've seen this show before...
Posted by: N in Seattle at October 19, 2004 10:18 PMHush, N, hush. To borrow from Tug McGraw in 1973, "Ya gotta believe!"
Posted by: Linkmeister at October 19, 2004 10:21 PMI wanna believe. But ...
Posted by: N in Seattle at October 20, 2004 05:10 AMSchilling is THE man. That's all there is to it.
Posted by: Skatemom at October 20, 2004 06:21 AM