Found this article while making the Rick Burleson page for the RBIdb:
http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/Rick_Burleson
Anyway, it's time you Caught up with Rick Burleson (http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/05/04/waiting_for_the_call/)
Discuss... It's tough to find pic with Burleson during his Angels days. Seems like he'll be a Red Sox in most people's minds...
Whoa, said in 5/2004:
"They (Red Sox) are off to a good start and just played real well in two different series against the Yankees. I would have to say if they can stay away from any major injuries then they are going to have a great shot."
The burly sac knew, the burly sac knew...
That's way too generic a comment to give him much credit.
Show Dick some respect!
Had he picked the Angels in '02, that'd be a different story.
how long have you been calling him "burley sac(k)?"
back in olden times, my friends and I called him "burley sack" as well.
Man, we've been calling him that since college I believe. We started with Burly, then migrated to the Burly Sac...
Is it sac or sack?
We called him Burley Sack as in "Burely Sack of Nuts" --- referencing our belief that Rick had a big hairy set of testicles.
We called Terry Pendleton "Terry TindleWind." Why, I'm not real sure.
We called Mike Heath "Mike Sheath." That has an agri meaning, as (according to my buddy) a bull's skin that cover its penis is called a sheath.
These are all quality... This is part of the reason why I started adding a == Nicknames == section for the player bios I do. That way people can do a quick edit and add their own.
We too had a testicular lean with Burly Sac, but for some reason I thought it wall spelled ballsac or ball sac...
What was our fascination with Rick's scrotum?
Was?
Speak for yourself...