Rounding the Bases
Rounding up all the latest Red Sox news and notes in one post. This edition will cover everything that happened in Soxland while I was out of commission in sunny, warm, beautiful New Orleans over the weekend. Going from the 75 degree sunshine of NOLA to the -5 degree (real temp! not wind chill!) of Chicago in one day was brutal. Thank goodness I have baseball to come home to.
TRUCK DAY! How about some pictures, pictures, pictures and more pictures? And video!
Curt Schilling: Loading up on cortisone shots- and still getting paid no matter what.
Manny Ramirez: Working hard in Arizona, and learned to speak some Japanese.
Clay Buchholz: Already in Ft. Myers sporting a “Season begins now” shirt, spent two months at the API in Pensacola (that’s where he saw the Sox win the Series- sad panda!), but can’t throw a video no-hitter to save his life.
Josh Beckett: Has arrived in Ft. Myers, and already threw a short session with his personal trainer (who also happens to be his girlfriend’s brother).
Kevin Youkilis: Buffed himself up in Arizona and landed himself a one year contract.
Daisuke Matsuzaka & Hideki Okajima: Japan is representin’ – both guys showed up early in Florida, and have started throwing.
Dustin Pedroia: Still officially has the biggest mouth (and ego) on the team – which is saying something. It’s also why we heart him.
Blogs: Sox Monster turns one year old (yay Dan!), and Sitting Still gets famous (yay Kelly!).
One interesting bit in that article about Dice-K and Okie: The Dice has talked to Josh and is looking to integrate “the ace’s change” into his repertoire.
I also liked the part where Lester mentioned Masterson making starts with the big-league club this year. I’m quite fond of Masterson. :D
The part about Clay’s not-so (real) no-no was sweet, too. He wants to be a character in a video game–he’s such a little boy!
Hope you had/are having a good time in N’Awlins.
And am I the only one who’s slightly skeeved that Josh’s girlfriend’s brother is his personal trainer? Most guys I know wouldn’t want to be working for a guy who has ongoing carnal knowledge of his sister.
Thanks for noticing my moment of fame, hee! Can’t miss Truck Day!
Genius quotes. And I love that you are officially labeled as “Red Sox super fan”.
By the way, Kelly, I’ve started a blog myself and I have a grand total of 10 posts and your pictures are in a lot of them. They’re so great! :D
(Just figured you might be checking back here after posting, so I hope you get this.)
I love that Josh is still his surly self to the media! From Amalie Benjamin on Extra Bases:
“Beckett wasn’t quite in the mood to talk, heading off to do his workouts…”
Yeah, Amalie, he wasn’t in the mood to talk to YOU.