Dork.

Way back in February, Dustin Pedroia did an interview with Boston Magazine. The writer of the piece is obnoxious; he's much too in love with the sound of his fingers clacking on the keyboard. It makes it difficult to slog through but the reward, should you be able to make it to the end, is worth the effort.

Throughout the entire piece Dustin comes off as very angry. And perhaps he is. Perhaps the impish Dustin Pedroia that we all know and love is an act put on for the media at large. Perhaps the Dustin Pedroia who seems to be loved by Derek Jeter, who got a chuckle out of Barry Bonds, and who regularly razzes Kevin Millar is the Disney-fied version of Dustin Pedroia and the real Pedroia is an angry, paranoid, little man. Or perhaps the author (who continues to print something that wasn't particularly vital to the integrity of the piece, even though he was asked not to) forgot to mention that the interview was given with a sly little grin pasted on Pedroia's face.