In all of his supreme awesomeness, Dice-K also has an eclectic taste in Music.
So he has decided to release a CD titled: Music From The Mound
Its a sweet ass compilation of all of his favorite artists, including Magic Dick and former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. More than words people, more than words!
It also contains a never before heard track titled “Gyro Ball”.
This is what Dice-K had to say about it:
“I am excited to share my favorite inspirational songs with everyone in Red Sox nation and beyond. I’m also thrilled to work with the Red Sox Foundation, the official team charity of the Red Sox on this project”.
I think he relishes the opportunity to face Suzuki, and always performs well. And to nobody’s surprise, he was ripping it today. But Ichiro got his revenge on the Dice-man this day, by ripping single off Dice-K in the third to bring home the games first run.
By no means was Dice-K bad on this day, he whiffed 8 batters over 8 innings gave up only three hits and one run.
His record was unscathed by the eventual 2 - 1, 11th inning loss; but the lack of Boston Red Sox batting has taken its toll on his 9 - 5 record.
Once again…in true Daisuke fashion this crazy gyroballer keeps coming up large. If you look back at his track record of competition this season…the teams, and players, are astounding.
And this time around he was up against a legend in Greg Maddux. Wearing some throwback duds, the Dice-man started off a tad wobbly, but came up large in a big heavyweight pitching showdown.
It’s so tough to look at his record. He could EASILY be 12-2. Easily.
If the bats won’t help him out, the Dice-man will do it himself!
7 innings, 8 K’s and three hits for 0 ER!
You just have to put this kid in the spotlight to allow for him to perform, there might be a slight bit of playing down to his competition but overall, don’t let his record fool you. This cat is a superstar!
Well, I guess having the single most Phallic nickname in pro sports means you have to be good at something!
But nonetheless, Dice-K matched Randy Johnson almost pitch for pitch in this duel, showing once again how he relishes the big pressure situations. There was only one problem; his bats didn’t come out the same way.
Producing only a handful of runs in their last three games is not going to help out the boys on the mound much.
Here are Dice-K’s final game stats:
Name
IP
H
ER
BB
GB
K
Dice-K
6
4
2
4
?
9
Just to compare, here were Randy Johnson’s numbers:
Only giving up 2 earned runs isn’t enough to get a W with these slumping Red Sox bats these days.
After battling through remnants of the flu and two shaky outings, Dice-K bounced back with a 7 hit, 2 ER and 8 K 7 inning showing against the A’s and walked away with a big fat L.
The problem was that the Sox could only muster up 3 hits against Oakland and essentially left the Dice-man out to dry as he battled to regain control after a smattering of bad outings.
I’m calling this remnants of the flu. Thats the only explanation. Tonight, the Dice Man just got plain ROCKED. I guess its bound to happen every once in a while but damn, that was nasty! I don’t even want to write about it, here are his game stats:
After his shaky vomit inducing start against the Texas Rangers, Daisuke Matsuzaka is back in business and right on schedule for his next start Wednesday against the Cleveland Indians.
Dice-K almost chucked in the middle of chucking his 10th start last Friday. But I beleive we’ve underestimatedd the friggin AMAZING feat we witnessed that Friday evening. When they said he left with stomach nausea, I figured he was being a trooper for hanging in as long as he did…but slowly the details of his condition emerged.
Not only did he have the flu, which is the worst feeling ever, but he was ralphing between innings!
And with sheer will he managed to get through five…to keep weight off of the bull pen and to secure his win…AND he still sent Catalanotto packing in the fifth with a blazing fastball.
Terry Francona from MLB.com: “He still managed to somehow throw the ball 95 mph past Catalanotto in that fifth inning.”
That my friends, is not just good, thats superhuman.
And in his humble explanation of his performance, this is what Dice-K had to say: “I tried my best to take the team as deep into the game as possible to fulfill my responsibility as the starter, I regret that I ended up being a burden on my teammates (Friday). I’ll do my best to prepare for my next start.”
WHAT?? Is this guy a Samurai or something? And we’re supposed to LIKE Barry Bonds?
Hey pro athlete dickheads, take a lesson from this guy…
