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BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight
#7423271 - 09/18/07 11:30 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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BoSox dress Dice-K, rookies in costumes on flight to Toronto
TORONTO -- The Boston Red Sox didn't need an interpreter for this: With one quick wardrobe change, Daisuke Matsuzaka went from star pitcher to Teletubby.
"I didn't think there was anything that could make me laugh last night. There was," manager Terry Francona said Monday.
Many teams use a late season trip as a chance to have some fun with the rookies, dressing them in outlandish costumes that must be worn on the flight to the next city. Dice-K had to don the outfit following Sunday night's 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.
In addition to Matsuzaka, Boston's veterans dressed reliever Hideki Okajima and outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury as female pirates, pitcher Clay Buchholz as Minnie Mouse and outfielder Brandon Moss as Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz."
"There were some interesting looks, but no international incidents," Francona said.
Third baseman Mike Lowell said Matsuzaka and translator Masa Hoshino -- also a Teletubby -- wore the funniest outfits.
"That was pretty original, I thought," Lowell said.
Francona said watching Matsuzaka clear customs at Toronto airport was "hilarious."
"Somebody wrote a check for $102 million, and he's going through dressed as a rodent," Francona said.
Francona was pleased that Matsuzaka, an eight-year veteran of the Japanese leagues, had no problem overcoming the cultural barriers and taking the joke.
"I went through this in Philly with [Vicente] Padilla, where he didn't get it and it wasn't good," Francona said. "The way guys handle those things helps the team. We got in at 4 in the morning, but it was a good plane ride."
Lowell said the Red Sox didn't go overboard in dressing up their teammates.
"The guys took it great," Lowell said. "It's a night flight. No one is going to see you. They did it the right way."
It was certainly an easier ride than the time Lowell was forced to dress in hobo clothes as a Florida rookie in 1999.
"There were no stewardesses on the flight," Lowell said. "We had to serve all the drinks and everything."
The costumed ballplayers made for a colorful evening at Toronto's Pearson Airport. Hours earlier, the Baltimore Orioles had pulled the same prank as they left for New York, dressing right-hander Fernando Cabrera in a gorilla suit, right-hander Jeremy Guthrie as a female nurse and left-hander Kurt Birkins as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
"Customs was probably thinking some guys were pretty weird," Lowell said. "I think they got it. They knew it was a joke."
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7424999 - 09/18/07 06:34 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Why not? He's been pitching like Tinkie Winkie.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: zappaisgod]
#7425036 - 09/18/07 06:40 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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pics?
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: Dr_T]
#7427340 - 09/19/07 09:24 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Zappa) I find it somehow amusing that a hard-core, ultra-fascist, "Invade the World" type like you is familiar with the teletubbies, to the point of knowing their name. I do, but I'm a child-regressing drug addict with a penchant for children's television. This amuses me to no end.
Dr_T) Even better, here's a video. And check out Clay Bucholz too.
http://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/Dice_K_goes_Teletubby/27665
Apparently, the link is to a picture, but click on the hyperlink on that page to see the vid.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7427603 - 09/19/07 11:11 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Teletubbies are one of our tools for global hegemony. Gotta get em young, doncha know. Besides, Tinkie Winkie was the homo. We keep tabs on ALL the homos.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: zappaisgod]
#7427981 - 09/19/07 12:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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It makes so much more sense now.
You guys are on a whole other level from me.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7428532 - 09/19/07 02:46 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Obviously. That's why we control the world and always will. Bwahahahahhaha.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: zappaisgod]
#7428624 - 09/19/07 03:05 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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You're Jewish too?
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: jewunit]
#7429187 - 09/19/07 05:38 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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No, French Socialist thought I was somebody he knew named Eliott. He went off quite impressively. Now he's gone. Still a retard though.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: zappaisgod]
#7429537 - 09/19/07 07:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I left out the "/kidding" I guess.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: jewunit]
#7429618 - 09/19/07 07:23 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I thought you were talking about my sig, not the world domination part.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: zappaisgod]
#7429875 - 09/19/07 08:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ah, no. I have signatures turned off. I wish people wouldn't post big bulky pictures in them so they wouldn't be so damned annoying.
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Re: BoSox Dress Up Dice-K Like Teletubby, Put Him on Flight [Re: zappaisgod]
#7430295 - 09/19/07 10:10 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: I thought you were talking about my sig, not the world domination part.
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"For anyone who cares I know zappaisgod personally. He is gay. He is jewish. He is a douche. And he both, has a crush on me:" Some Incredible Retard
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