Pitchers and catchers have been on duty since the weekend, but now the rest of the 2007 Sox herd is beginning to file in for Spring Training. I am so freaking excited... well pretty much everyone is excited.Papelbon is excited to be starting.
Tavarez, Pineiro, Hansen, Romero and Donnally are excited because they think they’re closing.
Lester is excited because he had FREAKING CANCER and is playing.
Dice-K or D-Mat or WHATEVER his freaking nickname is excited to actually throw some pitches and turn about 12,000 Japanese reporters heads.
Schilling, Wakefield and Timlin are excited for the new Metamucil tablets.
Lugo is excited to finally try on the new laundry.
Wily Mo is excited to get his contract taken care of (it’s a steal for someone with his upside).
Coco is excited about batting 7th (I hope).
Okajima is excited to have the 2nd most unpronounceable name on the team, and very excited to nail Dice-K’s leftovers.
Breslow, Lopez, Delcarmen, Pauley, Snyder, Gabbard, Murphy, Moss, Kottaras and Hinske better get really excited for AAA until about August.
Youk is excited because people still think he’s Greek (he’s Jewish).
Lowell is excited because people still think he’s George Clooney (he’s Puerto Rican).
Ortiz is excited because people still think they can pitch to him past the 7th inning (he will own you).
Tek doesn’t get “excited”.
Drew is excited because when his ears popped on the plane ride over, it didn’t put him on the 15 day DL.
Pedroia is excited because he gets to play with the big-boys and only has to carry HALF of all their gear this year.
Cora and Belli are excited because even though they play like once a week, they still will have their names in the paper more than the starting lineup of the Kansas City Royals.
And finally, Manny is excited because once again, he doesn’t have to show up until March 1st even though he is like two hours away chilling at his mom’s house. Whatever, as long as you hit your 120 RBI and 35 HR. Whatever.
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