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Red Light: Sox Will "Right The Ship"
Published 9/20/2007 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
... From Curt Schilling - ...

Red Sox News & Notes - 9/21
Published 9/21/2007 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
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Blog buffet quickie: Lots of baseball links
Published 9/21/2007 by NDub at Construda
... ? (Sportsline, ESPN) Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling blogs about his team's late season collapse and the character test the team faces in its final games. (38pitches) Here's how Ken Griffey Jr. ...

38 Pitches: Schilling: Character test incoming.
Published 9/21/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
38 Pitches: Schilling: Character test incoming. Uh-oh...If Schilling starts rambling about The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yankee Way of Knowledge ...I m outta here! Ouch. I certainly envisioned the start on Sunday ending in a much different manner than it did, but it didn’t. For those second guessing anything, from me being in the game to my throwing a ‘hanging’ fastball, don’t. At 69 pitches I was fine, it came down to two horribly executed split fingered fastballs that both got whacked. I had Jason in a spot to do a bunch of different things to end the AB, and didn’t. Same with Derek. Two strikes and a litany of options, none of them being a split hanging on the inside corner. ...We made no excuses and have none, it’s on us. We’ll find out over the next 9 games who we are and what we’re made of. We played ourselves into this cushion and we’re at the point of using it up. Tip your hat to the Yanks for playin ...

Spoilers are scary
Published 9/21/2007 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... , going 3-1 with a 2.40 ERA and 30 strikeouts and 30 innings. In his blog, Curt Schilling described the series thusly yesterday : As for the Toronto series all I will say is we ran into two guys that couldn't have been more dominating. McGowen had as good a stuff as anyone we've seen this year. He was hitting the upper 90's most of the night and his slider/cutter was hovering between 90-95mph from the first inning on. Burnett, well when AJ's on he can dominate any lineup any day. We made no excuses and have none, it's on us. We'll find out over the next 9 games who we are and what we're made of. We played ourselves into this cushion and we're at the point of using it up. Tip your hat to the Yanks for playing as well as they have too, regardless of how well anyone has done they've put themselves into this position by answering the bell when they needed to. For the record, the Blue Jays will pitch Roy Halladay, Shaun ...