Jason Varitek: O’ Captain My Captain

Here you come again, just when I’m about to make it work without you.  You waltz right in the door.  Just like you done before.  And wrap my heart ’round your little finger.  -Dolly Parton

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  What’s crack-a-lacking sports fans?  How about that?  How ’bout them juggernaut Boston Red Sox?  Them sluggernaut Boston Red Sox.  Them punch you in the muggernaut Boston Red Sox.  Jason Varitek will punch you in the mug.  Punched A-Broad in the mug oh so many years ago to get this whole party started right.  Got this party started quickly.  Punched the Tampa Bay Rays in the mug last night to keep this party going.  We don’t need no water let the motherfucker burn.  Move over Jim Harbaugh, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name ain’t Reggie Hammond.

You saw the Captain last night.  Captain Courageous.  Captain Fantastic.  Captain Marvel.  Shazam!  You saw the Captain take Big Game James deep for the winner winner chicken dinner.  You saw the Captain snap an 0-for-14 streak in this here ALCS.  Snappped an 0-for-14 streak to not only put the Sox into yet another Game Seven, but to also put himself into the record books.  That solo jack gives Tek eleven bombs in the postseason.  Big deal you say?  Who cares you say?  I say, that sets the all-time postseason record for catchers.  That puts Tek ahead of Johnny Bench.  Puts Tek ahead of Javy Lopez.  Puts him ahead of everybody.  Yowza!

We’ve come to expect big things from Varitek.  Of his previous ten bombs during the postseason, three were game-tying shots.  Seven came in the sixth inning or later.  Only two came in blowouts.  Varitek was the epitome of what these new look Red Sox have come to be about.  Big time at bats in big time situations.  Never say die.  We shall fight on the beaches.  We shall fight on the landing grounds.  We shall fight in the fields and in the streets.  We shall fight in the hills.  We shall never surrender!  However, Varitek had only gone yard once since the 2004 ALCS.  He was due.  He did not disappoint.  He made sure his first hit of the series counted for something.  He made sure the Red Sox would not go gently into that good night.  He made sure there would still be some baseball left to play.  So, take your shoes off.  Put your feet up.  And be a Sox watcher.  Tonight!  Win or go home!  Roll Sox, roll!

Public Acknowledgements:  48 Hours, CC & the Music Factory, Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, Rudyard Kipling, Elton John, Billy Batson, Winston Churchill and Dylan Thomas

Peace out Homies.  Six Two and Even

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