Road Trip.

When a team is losing, they're hard to write about. How many ways can you say, "Yup. Lost again."? When they become an unlikeable group, well who wants to write about them, anyway? But they've been doing this Red Sox Road Trip for the past couple of days (Side note: Ivan De Jesus? Bummed.) and it's worth mentioning because there are glimpses of likeability in this group.

First, there was this picture that showed up on the Red Sox twitter feed on Tuesday. Pedro Ciriaco and Ryan Lavarnway in a Vermont restaurant, wherein he appears to be pouring maple syrup onto a plate of french fries. If the napkin tucked into his shirt is any indication, he's already determined that eating his maple french fries is not going to be a clean operation and yet he hasn't bothered to remove his nice wool coat. It made me smile.

Then yesterday a different group of players, Mark Melancon, Chris "S.C." Carpenter, and Ryan Kalish went up to Maine. The group visited the Briarwood Children's House in Lyman, ME and gave an interview to the Bangor Daily News. I know that this isn't what he meant and that it came out wrong but S.C. is quoted as saying,

"It’s always a great feeling coming out here and meeting people, and just seeing the other side of things. Kids that are less fortunate, can’t hear like everyone else, like you and I. It’s fun to come out here and see that."   

 You know what else is a laugh riot, kiddo? Listening to the hearing-impaired try to talk.