Rookie Hazing Never Looked So Good...

Because I know you wanted two angles of this.

Whatever the Rays have, every team should want and every team needs.  They're not the best ball players in the league, but they have more chemistry and they have more fun playing the game than anyone out there.  At home they play in front of 13,000 people at most, yet they still go out and push for the postseason year after year.

As part of their year long rookie hazing, the dress-up act tonight was fully supported by the coaches and veteran players, who suggested the outfits and marched them out during the playing of "Call Me Maybe" while fans were invited to run the bases following the last home game of the year at Fenway Park.

The second video is a better angle, plus provides pitcher David Price as the color commentator.

Jeremy Hellickson Doesn't Give a Sh*t?

 

If you think you know what Jeremy Hellickson is all about, you're probably wrong.  According to one elderly gentleman at Fenway Park last night (during the Sox-Orioles...) game, Hellickson's focus lies outside the game of baseball.

The guy came up to me and we got to talking for a minute before he found his seats, and he explained to me how he was born and raised in the northeast but currently lives in Florida.  He told me about "this good little ball team they got in Florida, the first place Rays."  They're in third place, but that's besides the point.

He told me how Carlos Pena, or "pee-nuh" as he pronounced it, was a great hitter, and how they got "a young pitcher, he's only 25, the kid, what's his name..."

After I guessed Matt Moore, David Price and James Shields incorrectly, I finally guessed Hellickson's name, and the guy lit up, and filled me in on this fact:

"Hellickson, now he's up there, chewin' gum, like he don't, give, a shit!"

I don't know what I'm supposed to take that to mean, but I love it.  I'll look forward to the next time Hellickson starts to witness this.