Tazawa is adorable and looks like he’s enjoying it a lot more than I thought he would. Daniel Bard is awesome, and poor Jed looks totally bummed that he has to do it again.

And little Dylan! AWWWWW!

LMAO BRILLIANT
I could imagine Beckett beat anyone near him with a camera. That is amazingly amazing.

I was curious about Lester but a search didn’t provide any viable hits (I’m assuming that, with the ordeal he had endured in the months previous, he was probably excused from the embarrassment … or had to pitch the following day; memory of the schedule fails me). HOWEVER, I did find this gem:

In 2002, Florida Marlins pitcher Josh Beckett was introduced to the timeless ritual of rookie hazing -

“With the days of fungo enemas and dip-spit bukkake sadly over, Beckett was forced to fly on a commercial flight from Florida to Los Angeles in a hula dancer’s grass skirt and coconut bra…”

I doubt there is any public photographic evidence of this but if you can supply it, I will give you a cookie.

(Apologies if this shows up several times … I’m having an awful time posting today).

Favorite Items of the Post:
1.) The fierce silver leggings Bowden is rocking.
2.) D-Bard camping it up as he parades around in his mini-dress.
3.) Sailor!Kotts
4.) Little Pedroia <3

I love that all the costumes are short dresses. The silver boots! LMAO.

Bard is having way too much fun.

I love the shot of Pedie with Dylan–way too cute.

I have to admit though, that I find how remarkably uniform the dresses are hilarious. All mostly low-cut, all with ridiculously short skirts. (Does Bardo look a little TOO happy to be wearing that dress?)

And then there’s Sailor!Kottaras. There always seems to be at least one person who gets to skip the dresses each year—or maybe they’re just playing the stereotypical Greek card.

On the whole, though, definitely a step up from last year’s HSM theme. Much better execution.

Second…Buch is a rookie. So, how did he get spared???