The tip’s get clocked, baby. The bond’s get stocked. My style gets rocked. Just like doors get knocked with legendary status, like my name’s Lou Brock. -Everlast
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! What’s crack-a-lacking sports fans? Another regular season in the books, another shot at the title for my beloved Red Sox. Top ‘o the world! Big Ticket style. I live for this. Wooo doggie! Like my main man Joey D always says: “You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.” Jacoby Ellsbury is making it happen.
I love the base stealers. I loved Lou Brock. Put you in shock. Stealing bases around the clock. A virtuoso like my main man Johann Sebastian Bach. I loved Rock Raines. I loved Willie Wilson. Looking good in those baby blues. Faster than Deja Vu. I loved Firecracker Vince Coleman. I loved Rickey Henderson. Probably the best lead-off hitter I’ve ever seen. The best base stealer there’s ever been. And I love Jacoby Ellsbury. Jacoby Ellsbury, the American League stolen base king. Long live the king!
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 didn’t break Tommy’s record but he came close. Real close. The first Red Sox stolen base leader in twenty-five years ain’t too shabby.
Neither is being one of only three Red Sox to record 50 steals. Tommy Harper (54 in 1973) and Tris the Grey Eagle Speaker (52 in 1912). Otis Nixon never did it. Harry Hooper never did it. And neither did good ole fightin’ Patsy Dougherty. Not bad ‘tall.
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 the World Series. Stealing his way into our hearts. His fifty steals far surpassed the Sox’ 100-year-old rookie single-season record. Far surpassed. He didn’t break Kenny Lofton’s American League single-season rookie record of sixty-six he set with the Tribe back in 1992 but he sure made it fun.
Joe Morgan once said: “A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy.” Ellsbury is making infields jumpy. When Ellsbury scores a run, Boston is 51-17. Yowza! 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. This season they tied a club record with six steals in one game. Their total of 119 steals pits them in third place in the AL. When was the last time a Red Sox team could say that? But, make no mistakes about it, Ellsbury has been the straw stirring that drink.
Jacoby Ellsbury leads all rookies in runs scored, hits, stolen bases and triples and has a pretty, pretty good average. He’s played all three outfield positions and played them well. Rookie of the Year? I’m just saying.
Public Spectacle:
Peace out Mets. Six Two and even!
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