Papelbon Rips Hank

Though this has nothing to do with this story I felt like posting it.
It's Papelbon at a recent charity dance-off the Red Sox held. Nice shirt idiot.

From Don Amore:

"I don't know if he's trying to stir things up or not," he said. "I sure as hell don't care, because he sure as hell hasn't stepped foot on a baseball field. He needs to just stick to pencil-pushing, I guess. It's different if a player says that because they're the ones stepping between the war lines. Whatever, man. I'm not going to lose sleep over it, that's for sure. He's just trying to come up with something."

You just keep letting A-Rod knock you all over the yard, OK there Paps?

Mr. October had a much different take on the situation:

"I loved it," said Reggie Jackson, as familiar as anyone with the Steinbrenner way of manufacturing pinstripe hype. "He's a Steinbrenner. Hank's not hurting anybody there. He's not putting the Red Sox down. He's just making some braggadocio comments about the Yankees. That's putting some fun in the game, some enthusiasm."