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July 5, 2009
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In a startling revelation, 
Jonathan Papelbon would choose to be President of the United States because that would make him the boss of Bud Selig.
That’s his answer to just one more of the fan submitted questions during the weekly web exclusive "Cinco with Cinco."
Paps also waxes poetic on poopy diapers (yes, poopy diapers), Jagermeister, Wake’s knuckler and pitching at Yankee Stadium. Poor Tito takes more abuse too.
In his regular Mohegan Sun’s Sports Tonight segment, Micahel Felger discusses with him the changes in his approach to pitcing this season and why it is bringing him greater satisfaction. They also discuss the recent homerun by Josh Beckett, as well as the toll of being called up and sent down on a young pitcher.
Wednesday Interview
Cinco with Cinco
I have frenemies who are Yankee fans. I say frenemies — part friend, part enemy — because I could never completely trust, like or respect a Yankee fan. And I sure as hell could never marry one. That’s like placing an apple on your head and giving your wife a shotgun.
Well, some people have different relationships with the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry, and won’t allow it to come between them and true love. Take, for instance, Liz Vadenais, retail advertising manager of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She grew up in a Massachusetts household with seven siblings, but she’s willing to trade that in (and turn traitor) by agreeing to marry a Yankee fan named Tom Colletta. As if that’s not bad enough, Colletta has convinced Vadenais to get married at the new Yankee Stadium.
On July 30, the new Yankee Stadium will host its first marriage ceremony.
It is perhaps fitting that the happy couple — Tom Colletta, assistant director of resident services for the Worcester Housing Authority, and Liz Vadenais, retail advertising manager with the Telegram & Gazette — are representatives of the Yankees resistance here in the heart of Red Sox Nation.
Mr. Colletta has been a Yankees fan for life. Ms. Vadenais, who grew up in a household with seven siblings, all of whom are Red Sox fans, explains bucking the trend by saying she wasn’t “afraid of saying these guys are
cooltools.”
The Working Waterfront, a publication of the Island Institute, says New England Stone LLC provided 8 million pounds of Deer Isle granite for the new stadium, which opened on April 16.
The granite came from the Crotch Island quarry, Maine’s last major island quarrying operation.
Foreman Danny Hypes says Crotch Island produces between 55,000 and 75,000 cubic feet of granite per year
Hypes and his three-man crew are all Red Sox fans, but they didn’t realize the destination of the batch that went to Yankee Stadium.
Jonathan Papelbon talks with Gary Tanguay and Michael Felger on Mohegan Sun’s Sports Tonight on Aug 27th about a meeting with his bullpen mates, how the new additions have fit in, and his final games at Yankee Stadium. "Cinco Ocho" says it is a "love-hate" relationship with the New York faithful.
Welcome to the Wicked Weekly, a new weekly segment (it’ll pop up on Fridays) here on Wicked Good Sports that highlights the winners and losers, top storylines and funniest mess-ups of the last seven days.
First, a real quick bit about me: I’m a five-time Emmy Award winning Dorchester native, who for the last 27 years has served as the voice of the Boston Celtics where… crap, that’s Gorman’s bio. Here’s me:
I’m a lifelong Bostonian.
I’d rank my Boston sports teams like so:
My three favorite Boston athletes of all time are mid-90’s Nomar, present day Tom Brady and 1989 Nick Esasky – I have absolutely no explanation for this last one, but because of Nick I’ve always had a special place in my heart for people with Lyme Disease).
The only three local athletes I’ve ever openly and aggressively booed are Vin Baker, Mark Blount and Reggie Jefferson. And I’d probably still boo today if I saw any of them walking down the street (or in Baker’s case, passed out under a bathroom stall).
I was there to see Jordan drop 63 on the Cs in 1986; Reggie Lewis collapse against the Hornets in 1993; Vinatieri beat the Rams in 2002 and Papi beat the Yankees in 2004. A couple weeks ago I was there to accidentally see Kendrick Perkins naked in the Celtics locker room.
