Rookies Are Taking Over (The SI Cover)
by Texy
2008 March 27 at 7:22 am
A quick hit and run post this morning – my movers will be here any second, so I’ll be away from the computer until that’s all sorted and done later today.
Jacoby Ellsbury is once again a magazine cover boy – this time he’s sharing the cover of Sports Illustrated’s baseball issue (!) with fellow rookie and member of the class of ‘05 Clay Buchholz (and Ryan Braun, Justin Upton, Troy Tulowitzki and Ryan Zimmerman)… albeit that Jacoby and Clay are behind the cover fold.
click to see full size cover
Tom Verducci’s accompanying article about the Red Sox-Yankees feud is also (as always with Verducci articles) a fantastic read.
stickbug is 90% legs, is he not? ::boggles::
i am also perversely amused by tulo checking out our sox boys. SORRY, TULO, CLOBY IS TAKEN.
I love Jacoby in magazines. it’s like Christmas every day!!!!
I can’t stand Tulowitski. I’m pretty sure he ‘roids, from the tantrums he throws in the dugout. and he has a “smell a fart” face on all the time. not as pretty as his peers, that one.
and yes, Stickbug would probably also make a very good dancer with the Boston Ballet.
:: puts the SI issue on shopping list ::
Can’t wait to read it–will walk to the mall at lunch to see if I can find it at the book store.
Aw. I, personally, love Tulo. And pretty much everyone else on that cover.
Rookies are the best!
… the Yankees had missed on Buchholz in ‘05. New York was turned off by an January ‘04 incident in which Buchholz and a McNeese State schoolmate were arrested for stealing 29 laptops from a school where Buchholz’s mother worked. (Buchholz was eventually given probation.)
Hum, well, that’s interesting.
Anyone else just a tad unnerved by the impending SI cover jinx?
Casey — don’t fret, they were only on the cover fold part :) So they weren’t on the actual cover(except for Jacoby’s hand) so no need to be afraid.
Piney–it’s only his catching hand anyway.
Well, we all saw how the cover jinx affected Paps last fall. So I’m not worried. ;-)
Aww, they look so charming! Actually, that’s my favorite draft class, so I’m happy. (Besides Jacoby and Clay, that was the year the Sox got a bunch of my favorites – Craig Hansen, Jed Lowrie and Michael Bowden round out the top five picks.)
Definitely picking up the issue when it arrives one week late in the bookstore of my rural Pennsylvania college. I read the article the other day – it’s pretty darn good.
I looked for the issue, but all I saw was the swimsuit issue (SO sick of that one). I’ll have to look for it this weekend.
Lyndsay, will you at least admit to liking this pic of Tulo? I don’t see how anyone can’t. :)
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/tom_verducci/03/25/tulowitzki0331/index.html
I’m sorry but I like my men Native American and speedy. Tulo looks like an obnoxious 8th grader to me.
and plus, he had a tantrum in the dugout during the World Series and threw his batting helmet, which is never attractive. Jacoby would NEVER do that. its not polite and its not classy and Jacoby would just tell himself “I just have to take my cuts and get myself deeper into the count next time. there’s always room for improvement!”
Lyndsay, I agree with everything you said about Tulo (and Jacoby!), and I don’t really like Tulo either, but I thought that pic was pretty cute (maybe it was just because he looked like an 8th grader).
:)
and I also don’t like the way he’s looking at Jacoby in that picture, like he’s about to shove him in a locker.
p.s. the article says that Clay wasn’t the one that acutally took the laptops, he was just the “lookout”. come on, you dont think that sweet innocent face could really pull off a heist, do you?? he certainly wouldn’t last that long in prison.
besides, Tulo’s got nothin on Jacoby. sure, “the next Derek Jeter” (as if that’s anything to aspire to), triple plays are impressive, and maybe you can outrun humans, but can you outrun ANIMALS? because Jacoby outruns deer, yes thats right…DEER! and I don’t think you could beat Bambi around the basepaths, now could you?
This photo of Jacoby from workout day in LA is pretty amazing…….felt it needed to be shared.
http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/SoxBlog/archives/2008/03/photo_jacoby_st.html
Mmmmm I like that pic of Jacoby Meg. That made my day.
ALERT ALERT PINK HAT MOMENT ALERT ALERT
-stares at computer screen-
/Pink hat moment
I mean, um, thanks, Meg!
ok that new workout photo goes in my Jacoby file on my desktop….yes I do have a Jacoby picture folder I am admitting to. did anyone see the feature in the Globe today, “Things you don’t know about Jacoby Ellsbury”…it’s very teen beat. but they did say he aint no player – he’s a one-woman man and always has been. :-)
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which is funny, because I see myself as more of a Pedroia…
Of course I had to go take the test and I’m a Papelbon too..haha
I love ‘my boys’. Every last one of them.
Troy has always reminded me of Sean Penn. Yuck.
ok we need a new post so we can discuss what the heck is going on with Papelbon – our lights out closer has blown two saves in a row and is probably sporting a pretty scary ERA right now – I think Tubbs Colon is even putting up better #s than Paps at the moment…
Paps has scared me, but I’m going to wait until they start playing regular games to get worried…he is an adrenaline junkie, so exhibition games probably don’t get him as fired up as real ones, and the A’s game was in Japan (which may or may not have screwed him up), and he still managed to get the save, messy as it was. I hope that by this time next week he’ll have at least two innings of scoreless work and it won’t be an issue…
It is weird for his ERA to be over 1.00 this early though:-/
Re: Paps…
I hope he’s not having migraine problems. I’m sure he’ll be fine.
Oh, I can’t wait for real baseball again.
For anyone that cares, Gange gave up three runs in the ninth today in a previously 3-0 Brewers game, to push it into extras. I thought this was hillarious:-P Fukudome got his first HR though:-D
HAHAHAHAHAHAH–I mean, sorry, Brewers. Can’t say we didn’t warn ya.
And hooray for Fukudome!
yeah since you mentioned Gagne – what the F were the Brewers thinking? Epstein can’t have been the only GM who knew about Gagne’s little steroid issue, and he was terrible all of ‘07 obviously. oh what the hell, let’s sign him anyway, just to see how many games we can single-handedly blow with him on the mound, just for sh-ts and giggles.
Lydnsay, that’s funny. and true.
Our Sox play in Oakland tonight. The weather looks good for tonight’s game, but tomorrow’s forecast is for rain *all* day. sigh. Of course *that’s* the game I have tickets for.
GO SOX!
um yeah…I don’t know how many more times this man can humiliate himself before having a Knoblauch-style meltdown and quitting the game altogether:
http://blog.masslive.com/redsoxmonster/2008/04/eric_gagne_update_horrific_per.html
ugh that was exactly what I expected to happen with Gagne. As a Brewer fan I was totally fustrated when they signed that moron…he is past his prime! If it turns out to be a decent year for him yea I’ll eat my words but I seriously doubt tht happening. Too bad. But yea what is up with Paps?
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