Moment 6: the Golden Paddle.

It's Christmas and, as a result, something light-hearted is absolutely required.



February 27. Fort Myers.

It started with Brian Roberts (I'm sure there are a lot of stories that have a bad result that start out in that exact manner.) He came out of the Arizona Performance Institute last winter with a story of work-out companion Dustin Pedroia challenging some hulking football player to a game of table tennis. Word got around, Comcast Sportsnet picked it up, and, in Mikey's own words, "this illustrious event" was born. Unfortunately for Pedroia, it turns out that Mike Lowell can whip any normal person's ass at Ping Pong.