No Chan Ho Park tonight

[fado]

He has back problems. Texas will have Joaquin Benoit start who's 2-1 with a 5.4 ERA. Could we have a problem with this guy since we were looking at getting ready for Park?

[Saracen]

No. They're both atrocious.

[elrod]

We've had trouble with Benoit before when he pitched in relief.

[Jerko]

He started against the Sox either last year or the year before cause Valdez I think it was couldn't go and he made the Sox look like babies up there. Hopefully it was just the "I never saw this guy before so I will suck" routine and the boys will hammer him tonite.

[Randar68]

Originally posted by Jerko
He started against the Sox either last year or the year before cause Valdez I think it was couldn't go and he made the Sox look like babies up there. Hopefully it was just the "I never saw this guy before so I will suck" routine and the boys will hammer him tonite.

Yep, I had flashbacks the minute I heard he was starting tonight...

[TDog]

Originally posted by Jerko
He started against the Sox either last year or the year before cause Valdez I think it was couldn't go and he made the Sox look like babies up there. Hopefully it was just the "I never saw this guy before so I will suck" routine and the boys will hammer him tonite.

I remember that was a day game, an aweful day game. May 9, 2002. I was doing my laundry and listening to the game on the radio. Ritchie didn't pitch badly that day, but Sox couldn't do anything against Benoit. Lost 4-1. We were in second, a half-game behind the idle Twins when the game started, and it kicked off a slump of eight losses in 11 games that dug the Sox their pre-All Star break hole from which they never recovered. Ritchie had beaten Hudson 10-2 in his previous start, and things were looking good until Benoit ushered in the ugly return of corpseball. The horror.