While it's going to be difficult to ever top that wonderful nonsense, the Red Sox managed to put together another fine champagne and beer drenched party in the visitor's lockerroom down in Anaheim after yesterday's sweep of the Angels. There were no jockstraps or Bud Light hats this time, but there were lots and lots of buckets. The bucket hat is apparently the new Bud Light hat.
I gathered together all kinds of video of the celebrations and lockerroom interviews (courtesy of NESN, TBS, WBZ and MLB) for your enjoyment. Note the repeated updates on the state of undress of Papelbon, and Josh Beckett's concern over all the beer being wasted. And the best part of the video is often what's going on in the background.

Globe staff photo by Jim Davis
Doesn't this picture just about sum it all up?
NESN coverage- Part One
- Josh Beckett at the beginning of the video spraying Dougie Fresh (I believe) with champagne, and then shaking with gleeful giggles like a four year old
- Mike Lowell bounding (literally) over to grab champagne
- Jonathan Papelbon very very violently spraying champagne in a questionably suggestive manner
- Curt Schilling comes in after his press conference and gets pounced on by 5 or 6 guys
- Tito Francona interview
- Farrell and Okajima fistbump
- Mike Lowell interview
- Theo Epstein interview, chugging beer in between questions. He also keeps looking over his left shoulder nervously- probably because Papelbon is standing there to his left, so he's either waiting for a champagne ambush or he's ready to step in if Papelbon starts to injure himself with a kegstand
- Julio Lugo interview - which is interrupted at the very end by a Manny drive-by, dumping a bucket full of ice water on him
- quote of the clip: "Good news [...] Jonathan Papelbon is fully clothed, so I think Red Sox Nation is happy to see that."
Lots more video after the jump...
NESN coverage- Part Two
- Coco Crisp interview, with cute grin when talking about Manny posing a touch too long after his homerun (also note Okajima in the background- who is kind of like... "what about me?")
- "Jonathan Papelbon, still fully clothed."
- Josh Beckett interview, complete with the full range of Josh-isms: (a) "execute pitches", (b) lemon-taste faces, (c) making a reporter feel stupid (in this case, well-deserved- there is no universe in which the Boston pitching staff has been underrated this year).
- Manny Ramirez interview (!!! what has gotten into him lately, with all the talking?). Note he says "when we get to the World Series", not "if we get to the World Series".
- a crazy-eyed Jonathan Papelbon interview. It can never be said enough: that kid ain't right.
- Royce Clayton walks up and pours a beer over Papelbon's head while he's talking, so we're treated to Papelbon spitting beer out all over the place
- interviews with Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino
Raw footage from TBS and WBZ
This is the best stuff because it's unedited- just straight footage of the guys goofing off.
- Ellsbury gets doused once, twice, three times
- Papelbon does Flashdance-like moves in a champagne spray and then bounces around like a pogo stick
- Varitek gets doused and runs away to the corner
- looks like Eric Hinske and Papi bump heads because they walk away rubbing them
- Tavarez dumps a bucket of ice water on Papi and then puts the empty bucket on his head and bangs the bucket
- not content with that, Tavarez goes back and gets another bucket and dumps it on Dice-K- but the funniest part is Dice-K trying to understand what Tavi is trying to say to him afterwards
"Nobody's safe!"
And why is Papi wearing a rain poncho? As though that would help at all.
More lockerroom interviews from MLB and WBZ
1st clip: Coco Crisp, JD Drew, Jason Varitek, Theo Epstein, Eric Gagne, Jonathan Papelbon, Tito Francona
2nd clip: Manny Ramirez, Jason Varitek, Josh Beckett, Theo Epstein
"It feels great... if everybody would stop dumping out all the beer." People, Josh doesn't like you to waste perfectly good beer!
3rd clip: Curt Schilling, Tito Francona, Jonathan Papelbon, Dustin Pedroia, JD Drew, Eric Gagne, Alex Cora, Mike Lowell




on October 9, 2007 6:46 AM
How much do you rock? This is awesome. Thanks so much for all this. I watched every second.
Love Josh...great, if everyone would stop dumping all the beer. LOL He's a classic.