Quick Note

It's a Two for Tuesday here on the Chicks Dig Blog, as I have a quick note regarding today's date, April 29.

April 29 is the 22nd anniversary of Roger Clemens setting a major league record for the number of strikeouts, 20, in a nine-inning game. Clemens did it in a 3-1 win over the Seattle Mariners in front of about 14,000 close family and friends (including myself, my brother and my Dad) at Fenway Park. Click here to check out a special section that the Boston Globe did two years ago on the 20th anniversary on the historic event.

And who would have thought that 22 years later, Clemens would still be making front-page news. I never knew Clemens liked his women so young, but 15-years-old is pretty young.

Twenty-two years ago on April 29, the Boston Celtics defeated the Atlanta Hawks (sound familiar) in Game 5 of their playoff series, to win the series 4 games to 1. I thought that I would be attending that game with my dad and brother to see the Celtics close out the Hawks, but the guy who was getting the Celtics ticket for my dad, failed to come up with the tickets. Instead, he had three tickets to the Red Sox game.

So instead of seeing Bird, McHale, Parish, Dominique Wilkins and a lesser known Atlanta starter by the name of Doc Rivers, I went to Fenway and got Joe Sambito's autograph, nearly caught my first foul ball (two rows in front of me, and I'm still waiting for my first snare of a foul ball) and watched history in the making.

Life is a funny thing sometimes.