All good innings...

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So this is the phenomenon that occurs when Daisuke Matsuzaka pitches seven good innings and zero bad innings. Red Sox win 9-3. I can dig it.

Is anyone else amazed by the soap opera that has developed over Curt Schilling's on-air remarks about Barry Bonds? Over the past 48 hours we have witnessed:

1)Curt's statement on WEEI:

"I mean, there's no gray area. (Bonds) admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes, and cheating on the game, so I think the reaction around the league, the game, being what it is, in the case of what people think."

2)Curt's "Public Apology":

"Regardless of my opinions, thoughts and beliefs on anything Barry Bonds it was absolutely irresponsible and wrong to say what I did. I don’t think it’s within anyone’s right to say the things I said yesterday and affect other peoples lives in that way."

3)Terry Francona tells Curt to "Zip it":

Nobody's more crazy about Schill than me. I just ask him to kind of zip it a little bit, and I think he will."

4) The Red Sox make enemies in San Francisco. From the SF Chronicle:

"America waited as long as it dared to start the Barry Bonds Cirque du Punditry, but it apparently can wait no longer...The seal was broken Tuesday, oddly enough by dueling members of the Boston Red Sox Forensics Society. Of course, the Boston Red Sox. They have nothing better to do now that they've clinched the AL East, right?"

Instead of accusing Barry Bonds, Schilling should have just said "Barry Bonds is a generally unpleasant individual and I hope he doesn't break the home run record." That's what I would have said.

Do you plan to root for Barry Bonds to break Hank Aaron's all-time home run record?

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