The throwaway moments in NESN's game broadcasts often contain some of the best gems-- the candid moments when their lenses capture the big, bad Red Sox players and coaches in candid moments and we see them as regular guys (rather than multi-millionaire superstars).

The NESN cameras at tonight's game kept catching Julian Tavarez goofing off, horsing around like a little kid who ate too many Pixi Sticks and can't find a friend to join him in playing pranks and pulling faces and generally being hyper. Normally, Manny would fill that role perfectly- but he wasn't around to participate in Julian's ADDfest... so Julian just had to create fun where he could find it.

So, Julian first finds a buddy in... Daisuke Matsuzaka? The cameras cut to Dice-K playfully releasing Julian from a headlock, and then the two of them exchange a few words and then a very cute fistbump. Two questions about that: (1) there was no interpreter, so were they speaking in English, Spanish or Japanese? and (2) what in the world were they talking about?

Later, out in the bullpen, Julian mugs around for the camera, waving and grinning. It's like he just realized that the giant black box with the glass circle on it that's been in the bullpen since, oh, forever is a video camera. Look at the pretty shiny object! HI MOM!