King of the Ave. with the def female. You’re rhyming and stealin’ with the freshest ale. -Beastie Boys
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Celtics season over. I’m looking over a four-leaf clover. Patriots season not yet begun. I have not yet begun to fight! You know what that means boys and girls? Huh? Do ya? Sure you do. It means, all Red Sox all the time! MLB Baseball. I live for this.
Wooo doggie! How ’bout them Red Sox? Them first place Red Sox? Them best record in the American League Red Sox? I loved Lou Brock. Put you in shock. Stealing bases around the clock. A virtuoso like my main man Johann Sebastian Bach. I love this kid. Attention please, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Fenway Park. Now leading off, Ellsbury, center field, Ellsbury. There hasn’t been this much excitement on the basepaths around here since 1973. Since Tommy Harper.
Tommy Harper may never have been allowed to join the Elks, but in 1973, he led the American League and set the Red Sox single season stolen base record with fifty-four. Jacoby Ellsbury is on pace break Tommy’s record. Jacoby Ellsbury has thirty-four stolen bases. Jacoby Ellsbury leads both leagues in steals. Woody Allen: “When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.” That ain’t Jacoby’s problem. Jacoby is stealing his way toward Rookie of the Year. Stealing his way into our hearts.
His thirty-four steals have already surpassed the Sox’ 100-year-old rookie single-season record. His thirty-four steals is more than halfway to breaking Kenny Lofton’s American League single-season rookie record of sixty-six he set with the Tribe back in 1992. Want more? You know you do. Ellsbury is on pace to steal seventy-nine bases. Big deal you say? Who cares you say? I say no big leaguer has stolen eighty since 1988. Since Rickey. Since the best lead-off hitter I’ve ever seen. The best base stealer there’s ever been. Since Firecracker Vince Coleman. How ’bout that?
How ’bout this? Joe Morgan once said: “A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy.” Ellsbury is making infields jumpy. Elllsbury is turning Boston into the new Go-go Sox. The Go-go Red Sox. Go-Go Gophers. Watch’em go go go. Watch the Red Sox go. The Red Sox are going like they’ve never gone before. They just tied a club record with six steals on Tuesday. Their total of seventy steals pits them in second in the AL. But, make no mistakes about it, it has been Ellsbury who is the straw stirring that drink.
Public Acknowledgements: Mort Dixon, John Paul Jones, Jed Clampett, Sherm Feller, USA Today, Mel Allen and Reggie Jackson
Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
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