Clay, the Pied-Guitarer
It appears Clay Buchholz is leading some sort of music-fueled revolution in the Red Sox clubhouse – and is indoctrinating various players in the ways of the guitar… starting with Jon Lester and Josh Beckett.
After rooming with a guitar player in college, Stickbug decided he was going to teach himself to play guitar (after googling it on the interwebz, no joke). Following in the hallowed footsteps of music legend Bronson Arroyo, Clay can regularly be found toting his guitar with him from city to city on roadtrips, and playing along in the clubhouse with his laptop open in front of him. And the guitar fever is spreading.
What teammates are also closet rock stars?
CB: There are a couple of guys getting into playing guitar like [Jon] Lester, [Josh] Beckett who are learning. There are a lot of music enthusiasts here who maybe you wouldn’t think would be. Lester, he’s getting into it, Josh and then Dusty Brown who just came up from Pawtucket. He’s a guitar guy too. So a couple guys.
I can practically hear Peter Gammons and Theo Epstein salivating to get them all signed on to play Hot Stove, Cool Music. Joshie and the Pussycats, perhaps? Or given the injured state of Josh and Jon, maybe Clay and the Gimps.
On behalf of Red Sox Nation, I hereby request that in the event a certain team clinches a certain wildcard playoff spot at a certain ballpark in Boston tonight, that three certain pitchers be required to play a mini-concert out on the pitching mound. PLAY FREE BIRD!
Back spasms my ass. Beckett hurt himself practicing stage dives.
Hilarious.
:: lights lighter ::
Free bird!
As if I needed another reason to endear our pitching staff to me: Athletic, charitable, musically-inclined, and – of course – unobtainable. If only B-Penny were still touting the red high sox, they could be a quintet.
Favorite excerpt:
Do you serenade your fiancée then?
CB: Well, I try. It’s not too hard. She’s a hopeless romantic.
Modest & yet not so much at the same time. ;D
Yes, I made up the word “Guitarer”. Guitarist would have worked perfectly fine, except it didn’t sound like “Piper”, so I assaulted the English language a little bit for the sake of having a word that ended in “er”.
@Texy: Works for me.
@jules: I figure making up a new word is far less offensive than all headline atrocities making puns off of Dice-K’s nickname.
The guitar detracts from his otherwise not-so-prettiness.