"We’re the world champions, and we’re going to play like it."
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Previous post: The ‘Nocebo’ Effect
Papi looks like he slimmed down. That’s good news for my fantasy team.
Could be just the absense of bedazzlers.
F#%K YEAH!
Sorry, that’s the first thing that came to my mind when I saw that picture.
Wow, he almost looks smaller than Josh Beckett!
WOO-HOOOOOO!!!
and yeah, Big Papi now looks like Medium Papi. er… maybe he just laid off the arroz con pollo. (fingers crossed)
But I have to admit recent developments are unsettling to me. Yankees with imminent clubhouse lines drawn, relying again on a patchwork rotation, Arod already paid. Manny and others at API, Schilling = Buchholz, Lester looking mahvelous. Gagne GONE. Why, the last time I felt this confident about the Sox chances was, oh, last.. year..
never mind
Did Ortiz really lose weight or is that just the picture?
Even his face looks thinner in that particular photo.
Svelte Papi?
Looks like Papi’s head photoshopped onto Coco.
The picture matched up with that quote means that suddenly I can’t stop smiling this morning. Eight days until the first game!
Also, I’m going with NSTB and calling him Medium Papi. He’s lookin good, especially with the new hairdo too.
GQ: Are you willing to concede that Boston, my favorite team, is the superior organization right now?
Michael Corleone: No, I will never concede. They’ve got a lot of talent, and you’ve done very well the past few years, but let me put it this way: I don’t think you guys wanted to play us in the ALCS. So I will concede nothing. I think we’re better than you.
http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2008/02/steinbrenner-tk.html
On paper, I would have certainly preferred to face the Yankees over the Indians last year. I just don’t like the added tension that comes with it being not on paper…
The bedazzlers are on Papi’s back pockets. Gonna hurt like hell when he slides.
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On the other hand, I saw this picture and I immediately thought of this: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/2002/jinx/00s/030501lg.jpg
And that turned out to be not so good. (p.s., another name absent from MR.)
I love how SOME Yankee fans can’t help but constantly accuse Papi of juicing, class class class. There were so many fans on sites like NYYFans and LoHud that said, flat out, if Papi wasn’t in the MR is was by default an invalid report.
Sour grapes.
Lock, there are @$$holes everywhere.
And you know, what? Any @$$hole can see we’ll never know who juiced and who didn’t. So why even bring it up? I’m sure SOME Sox fans think Jeter’s mom was breastfeeding him PEDs.
Papi looks good…not good for us!!!
Carl Crawford on Manny, more good news…
“Carl Crawford spent about 2 months working out at the API institute in Arizona:
“Who did I see?” Crawford said. “Oh man, guess what? Manny was there. He was working hard too. Manny might have a big year this year, watch out for that. He’s working hard, it surprised me. Something must be going on.’’”
The gift that keeps on giving! GQ Interview with Little Stein, regarding the Red Sox…
“They’ve got a lot of talent, and you’ve done very well the last few years, but let me put it this way: I don’t think you guys wanted to play us in the ALCS. So I will concede nothing. I think we’re better than you.”
He needs his own reality show, I would never miss an episode.
Lockland, that’s not even the Little Stein you think it is. That’s the quiet one, Hal.
Wow, if true that’s a rare mistake by Rob Bradford, I can’t find the actual interview. My apologies.
you can find it linked at Bronx Banter (which is linked on the side here)
Oh, man. I much as I’m going to enjoy the Brothers Steinbrenner, I really, really feel for you NYY fans. That’s just not right. First you get Sterling and Waldman. Now you get the Stein boys. Ouch.
(But I agree with his statement. I DIDN’T want to play NYY in the ALCS. As phlegmatic as NYY looked against Cleveland, it would have been a different thing against Boston, no doubt.)
anybody know when the HR (Hank Report) is coming out?
some other teams the sox didn’t want to face in the ALCS are….the ’27 yankees, the ’67 reds, the ’85 bears, and the ’72 dolphins. fortunately none of these teams made the ALCS last year either.