Puns Aweigh!

       Headline writers can have fun, especially in the sports pages.  The Los Angeles Dodgers playing in the National League Championship Series had to depend upon their 3rd best pitcher to win after their best two didn't.  Ryu is South Korean, his name is pronounced [rih-YOU], and here's the L.A. Times headline on the morning of his night game:

                It has to be Ryu

I read it about four times yesterday and today, and on the fourth time only, I realized the writer was summoning an old song:  "It had to be you/ It had to be you/ I wandered around, finally found/ Somebody who..."

       Ryu won his game, and today's headline read

                 A BUOY NAMED RYU
The sub-headline read "Rookie's brilliant outing keeps the Dodgers afloat..."  You see the connection between "BUOY" and "afloat" and "BUOY" and "boy" and "Ryu."

       These headlines may be a "stretch," but they are also playful and
true...or should I say [trih-YOU]?