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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

WEEI: Dustin Pedroia: Some of us know how to do push-ups

and why…Derek Jeter is a no-good cheater!

So this is how the game went during Monday’s workout: Each of us taking batting practice can’t hit a ball foul or it will cost five push-ups. Then if we hit a ball we think is going out you have to call it, but if it doesn’t go out then that will cost you five push-ups.

I end up hitting a couple of line-drives that hit the top of the fence that I thought were gone. So I did my push-ups … real push-ups. Derek Jeter? Well, he didn’t really go down all the way. I’m not a trainer or anything, but those weren’t push-ups.

But Derek is a great guy, one of a bunch of great guys on this team. He’s a guy who has a good personality and I really think he enjoys coming here each day and playing. Any guy like that you can joke around with because if you love playing baseball you have to keep it relaxed and keep an upbeat atmosphere. There are a lot of guys on this team like that. That’s what makes it fun. This World Baseball Classic is a tough tournament to play in, but if you stay relaxed it slows down and you can really enjoy it.

Repoz Posted: March 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM | 49 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. OPS+ Posted: March 10, 2009 at 01:13 PM (#3097751)

I bet Pedroia does pushups from his knees.

2. ekogan Posted: March 10, 2009 at 01:19 PM (#3097753)

Weei.com is by far the best Red Sox related website.
Quite surprising for a radio station's website.

Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia will be blogging for WEEI.com throughout the World Baseball Classic

I'm really surprised that Pedroia knows how to blog ... or read.

3. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 10, 2009 at 01:21 PM (#3097754)

I'm really surprised that Pedroia knows how to blog ... or read.

I find this senitment...confusing. He doesn't seem particularly lunkheaded to me.

4. joker24 Posted: March 10, 2009 at 01:24 PM (#3097756)

These bloggers need to get out of their parents' basement and watch the game.

5. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: March 10, 2009 at 01:38 PM (#3097765)

Jeter does enough "pushups" that Pedroia probably doesn't see.

6. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: March 10, 2009 at 01:59 PM (#3097780)

#### push-ups?

7. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:03 PM (#3097791)

I bet Pedroia does pushups from his knees.

No, he does regulation push-ups. They just look like they're from his knees.

8. Der Komminsk-sar Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:08 PM (#3097793)

Nah, Ebola - otherwise, one is all you need.

9. flournoy Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:10 PM (#3097798)

Man, I had to do this last year, except we had foul balls out of play worth twenty push ups and pop flies worth ten. I think I had to do forty pushups, which was approximately forty more pushups than I had done in the previous several months combined. Geez, I was sore. No fun.

10. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:12 PM (#3097802)

I'm really surprised that Pedroia knows how to blog ... or read.

If i had to suspect one Red Sox player of illiteracy, it would probably be Papelbon

11. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:16 PM (#3097805)

If i had to suspect one Red Sox player of illiteracy, it would probably be Papelbon

Bingo. Now there's a guy who comes across as a lunkhead.

12. What Zupcic? Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:32 PM (#3097822)

speaking about last years trip to Japan:

"Jonathan Papelbon planned to play Texas Hold 'Em the entire flight. "My plan is to slow play the [expletive] out of them and take all their money

He had no other plans. Reading is out.

"I don't read books."

13. Blackadder Posted: March 10, 2009 at 02:39 PM (#3097826)

Those are pretty big words from a guy who can't hit a baseball 400 feet. =)

14. Alex meets the threshold for granular review Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:15 PM (#3097968)

12 reminds me of this Bill Hicks story:

I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year, after the show I went to a Waffle House, I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me, "Tch tch tch tch. Hey, what you readin' for?" Is that like the weirdest ####### question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading...for. Well, goddammit, you stumped me. Why do I read? Well... hmmm... I guess I read for a lot of reasons, and the main one, is so I don't end up, being a ####### waffle waitress. But then... this trucker in the next booth gets up, stands over me, and goes, "Well, looks like we got ourselves a reader." What the ####'s going on here? It's not like I walked into a clan rally in a Boy George outfit, goddammit, it's a book!

15. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:35 PM (#3098012)

I'm guessing Bill Hicks didn't know when his leg was being pulled...or perhaps he was reading Atlas Shrugged, in which case the waitress had a good question. But in any case it's more fun to despise ignorant yokels.

16. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:39 PM (#3098023)

Dustin has a mancrush on Derek.

17. Alex meets the threshold for granular review Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:40 PM (#3098027)

18. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:45 PM (#3098039)

I'm guessing Bill Hicks didn't know when his leg was being pulled...or perhaps he was reading Atlas Shrugged, in which case the waitress had a good question. But in any case it's more fun to despise ignorant yokels.

Yokels can be scary sometimes. Not always, but sometimes. In any case, I'll be traveling through Georgia and Alabama the end of April and I'll have my books with me.

19. Dr Love Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:48 PM (#3098050)

I'm guessing Bill Hicks didn't know when his leg was being pulled...or perhaps he was reading Atlas Shrugged, in which case the waitress had a good question. But in any case it's more fun to despise ignorant yokels.

Or, like the town of Fife, Alabama, he just made it up (and I'm a Hicks fan).

20. Tripon Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:53 PM (#3098058)

But can Dustin Pedroia hit the high inside fastball?

21. tjm1 Posted: March 10, 2009 at 04:55 PM (#3098061)

If i had to suspect one Red Sox player of illiteracy, it would probably be Papelbon

Nah. Papelbon is just jerking people around for his own amusement with all the stuff he says - sort of Bill Lee-like, but a good ole boy, instead of a California counterculture guy. You watch how much money he gets out of the Red Sox by refusing to sign a long term deal.

If I had to guess at someone being illiterate, it'd be Lugo.

22. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: March 10, 2009 at 05:05 PM (#3098081)

"Or, like the town of Fife, Alabama, he just made it up (and I'm a Hicks fan)."

Sheesh. He's a comedian, not an ethnographer.

23. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 10, 2009 at 05:09 PM (#3098087)

Nah. Papelbon is just jerking people around for his own amusement with all the stuff he says - sort of Bill Lee-like,

Naw. There was an undercurrent of intelligence ot Bill Lee's inanities. Papeblon is just a dork.

24. tjm1 Posted: March 10, 2009 at 05:15 PM (#3098106)

Naw. There was an undercurrent of intelligence ot Bill Lee's inanities. Papeblon is just a dork.

Well, I think Papelbon is actually also intelligent and just realizes it's easier to play the fool than to suffer the foolishness of the media. But I could see it your way, too.

25. Dr Love Posted: March 10, 2009 at 05:18 PM (#3098110)

Sheesh. He's a comedian, not an ethnographer.

"What you readin' for" and his Fife, AL bit are big ones for Hicks. All I'm saying that there's another possibility besides he was having his leg pulled, like he made it up or yes there really are people who don't understand why people choose to read.

26. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: March 10, 2009 at 05:53 PM (#3098163)

In any case, I'll be traveling through Georgia and Alabama the end of April and I'll have my books with me.

What's the occasion? Atlanta meetup?

27. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: March 10, 2009 at 05:58 PM (#3098169)

What's the occasion? Atlanta meetup?

Hey man, I've got a life outside BBTF! I'm going to do some camping at Cumberland Island and then meet my mother in Alabama to visit my grandma's grave and say hello to some relatives I've never met. I'm sure I'll run into a bowl or two of cheese grits while I'm down there.

28. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: March 10, 2009 at 06:05 PM (#3098178)

Well, I think Papelbon is actually also intelligent and just realizes it's easier to play the fool than to suffer the foolishness of the media. But I could see it your way, too.

Yeah, but no other Red Sox player gives the *impression* of being a straight-F student better than Papelbon.

29. We don't have dahlians at the Palace of Wisdom Posted: March 10, 2009 at 06:37 PM (#3098255)

I was browsing the library stacks on campus the other day and stumbled across the Rand section, and in an incredible display of pettiness I turned all the books backwards to hopefully protect future students from having to read her.

Congratulations. In the interest of your own selfish intellectual wishes you likely created more work for some underpaid pages so that you could make it harder for some other students to get their work done. Ayn Rand would be proud of you.

30. PreservedFish Posted: March 10, 2009 at 06:51 PM (#3098281)

Probably also made it more likely that someone would pick one of those books off the shelf.

31. jwb Posted: March 10, 2009 at 06:54 PM (#3098289)

I want Youtube video of both Pedroia and Jeter doing pushups, and I want it now. I want CBW's analysis of their form first thing tomorrow.

32. villageidiom Posted: March 10, 2009 at 07:00 PM (#3098300)

So I did my push-ups … real push-ups. Derek Jeter? Well, he didn’t really go down all the way. I’m not a trainer or anything, but those weren’t push-ups.

On his push-ups, Jeter went as far as he could go: all the way down to his aura.

33. Home Run Teal & Black Black Black Gone! Posted: March 10, 2009 at 09:20 PM (#3098530)

I was browsing the library stacks on campus the other day and stumbled across the Rand section, and in an incredible display of pettiness I turned all the books backwards to hopefully protect future students from having to read her.

Ha, yeah man, I'm with you. Whenever I pass by some Chomsky books I pull all the ############# out, make a real loud scene, and then burn the ####### right in the middle of the library. I mean, #### him, right?

Fight the power, you salty dog.

34. Obama Bomaye Posted: March 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM (#3098624)

so I don't end up, being a ####### waffle waitress

Then go get your own ####### waffles you worthless ########. Her job is so worthless that you're paying her to do it? Arrogant piece of ####.

35. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: March 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM (#3098634)

It sounds to me like they were trying to have fun with the guy, because he was alone.

Note that this leaves open whether they were doing it for their own amusement or for his . . .

36. Hugh Jorgan Posted: March 10, 2009 at 10:56 PM (#3098648)

He’s a guy who has a good personality

"Then I kicked the sh*t out of him, because, well he's a Yankee, that's why"

37. Roy Hobbs of WIFFLE Ball Posted: March 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM (#3098651)

Then go get your own ####### waffles you worthless ########. Her job is so worthless that you're paying her to do it? Arrogant piece of ####.

Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer 15 years ago if it makes you feel any better.

38. willcarrolldoesnotsuk Posted: March 10, 2009 at 10:59 PM (#3098652)

Then go get your own ####### waffles you worthless ########. Her job is so worthless that you're paying her to do it? Arrogant piece of ####.

You do realize you're yelling at a dead comedian, right?

39. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..) Posted: March 11, 2009 at 12:11 AM (#3098715)

I was browsing the library stacks on campus the other day and stumbled across the Rand section, and in an incredible display of pettiness I turned all the books backwards to hopefully protect future students from having to read her.

I do the same thing with Time magazine, Cosmo, and Maxim.

And here the day was limping along until, whoa! A Bill Hicks transcript! Blessings on you.

And nobody minds yokels, just so long as they don't vote.

40. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..) Posted: March 11, 2009 at 12:32 AM (#3098744)

I'm going to do some camping at Cumberland Island and then meet my mother in Alabama to visit my grandma's grave and say hello to some relatives I've never met. I'm sure I'll run into a bowl or two of cheese grits while I'm down there.

It's not nice to refer to your relatives as bowls of cheese grits.

<rimshot>

El Mombre, I take it you've caught Hicks's sketch on Marketing? A sentiment we can all get behind, Randian or not.

41. jwb Posted: March 11, 2009 at 02:07 AM (#3099024)

Camping at Cumberland Island is a fine thing to, but I'm into liveoak forests with sand underfoot, Spanish moss, and stuff like that. The floating logs might be bigger than you, alive, and hungry.

42. Obama Bomaye Posted: March 11, 2009 at 02:17 AM (#3099096)

You do realize you're yelling at a dead comedian, right?

Which has what to do with anything?

43. Dock Ellis on Acid

Posted: March 11, 2009 at 02:24 AM (#3099134)

Papelbon doesn't read, either.

44. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..) Posted: March 11, 2009 at 02:44 AM (#3099183)

Which has what to do with anything?

I'm gonna guess he can't hear you, what with the dead thing.

45. Jeff K. Posted: March 11, 2009 at 01:18 PM (#3099593)

For those insulted Bill would call people yokels, you do realize he was born in Georgia and grew up in Houston, right? This isn't some Yankee come down to make fun of us Texans.

Also, what the #### has happened to Primer?

Derek Jeter? Well, he didn’t really go down all the way.

I remember a day when this wouldn't have made it 4 posts, much less 44, without being noted.

46. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: March 11, 2009 at 01:26 PM (#3099598)

This isn't the lounge Jeff.

47. villageidiom Posted: March 11, 2009 at 01:39 PM (#3099610)

This isn't the lounge Jeff.

A Bernal Diaz sighting outside the lounge. Indeed, what the #### has happened to Primer?

48. Obi One Kenobi Nil

Posted: March 11, 2009 at 01:49 PM (#3099621)

Derek Jeter? Well, he didn’t really go down all the way

Well Jeter was obviously just a little too excited about being near Pedroia, he went down as far as he could. Given the circumstances.

49. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: March 11, 2009 at 01:56 PM (#3099630)

A Bernal Diaz sighting outside the lounge. Indeed, what the #### has happened to Primer?

My year long exile was over March 4.

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