Happy Easter
Happy Easter!
And to celebrate, let me give you a couple of goodies for your Easter basket. Like… this choice little story about Dustin Pedroia, from right before Friday’s game against the Hanshin Tigers:
About 30 minutes before the game, Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia stood in the dugout working over the handle of his bat with a pine tar rag. Out of nowhere, a blunt noise filled the stadium. Pedroia pirouetted toward left field. A band of Tigers fans in left field had begun a chant. Then drums joined in. Then a horn. And clapping.“What the (expletive) is that?” Pedroia asked.
Get used to it, he was told. That’s Japanese baseball.
The answer seemed not to suffice.
“Shut up!” Pedroia yelled toward the fans.
Four hundred feet away, they couldn’t hear Pedroia, and even if they could, his bellyaching would not have deterred a thing. Baseball games in Japan are spectacles in simplicity: quiet, bordering on silent, during the opponents’ at-bats, and fervent, with cheers and whistles and other such chicanery, during the home teams’.
It was enough to keep Manny Ramirez awake.
And since real baseball is just around the corner (whee!), here’s a nice little video clip montage from NESN showing the Sox working out at spring training down in Ft. Myers.
Gotta Love Pedroia, but hasn’t he ever heard of culture, or customs?
Video: can’t…stop…watching…can’t…stop…watching…
Agreed, Karen.
Also, I love NESN. A lot.
I love tavares. I know he’s not the greatest, but i went to baltimore to watch a sox game, and he was blowing kisses and winking at my friends and me the entire game.
TG, I just love the videos you put up. The catcher “firing squad” always cracks me up. Baseball tomorrow! And yes, I’ll be getting up early to watch before work. Maybe not at 3am, but early to see some of the game.
shouldn’t every moment they spend in Japan be accompanied by Dustin Pedroia going “what the f–k is that?” I imagine he said that more times the entire trip than he has ever told the media that Francona stinks at cribbage.
this moment could also be perfectly captioned as “Dustin Pedroia: “what the f&*k is that?”