"The playoff are all about momentum, right? So how are we the [bleeping] favorites? [The Rockies] won 20-freaking-something games in a row. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?" asked Papelbon good-naturedly. "They should be the favorites. Or have you ever heard about an even-point spread?"

And if that awesomeness wasn't enough, how about this- the Friendly's Scoop segment from this week, in which Papelbon confesses that "the voices" are responsible for his wacky antics:

This explains a lot. I'm assuming the same voices that told him to dance a jig on multiple occasions are the same voices that told him to jump around the AL East locker room celebration in nothing but a jockstrap. And yesterday several reporters asked him what the voices were telling him:

"Let me listen real quick." Papelbon bows his head and executes a comic pause that would have made Chris Rock proud. "They're telling me to go out and have fun. That's what we've got to do. Nothing's changed. I mean, we played 30-something games in spring training, and then 162, and now 10 more here. We're over 200 games, right? Just because this is the World Series - there's more on the line, I know. But we have to go out and treat this like it's number 200 and whatever."

As long as the voices keep helping him get 6-out saves in crucial games, I am more than happy to have them around.