It's a Small World.

With two little kids a vacation to Disney World makes a lot of sense for Daisuke Matsuzaka. What doesn't make a lot of sense? The truly awful jacket he chose to wear.

Print the Legend.

I love movies: new movies, old movies, comedies, thrillers, Westerns, dramas, horror flicks, foreign films, blockbusters, little indie films, kids movies. I'll happily watch them all in search of a good story. I love a good story. (Craig Breslow? Good story.) If there is nothing to watch on television, then you can bet that one of the first places I'll stop with the remote is TCM. You can run into some wonderful stories by just leaving TCM on--that's how I saw Bringing Up Baby, an absolute hoot of a movie. [Aside: Incidentally, I get a very Cary Grant vibe from Mike Lowell.]

One of the best story-tellers (and a New England boy to boot) was John Ford. In 1962 he made a movie called The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance about, essentially, truth and the value of it. It's a good movie even if that stupid song does get stuck in my head. The most famous quote from the film is: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." That's where my mind goes after it stops singing about how "He was the greatest of them all."

Josh Beckett, on the other hand, must be a big fan of the movie because his mind doesn't stop there. He goes to Doniphon (John Wayne) telling Stoddard (Jimmy Stewart): "Out here a man settles his own problems." [Context: Jimmy Stewart plays a young Eastern lawyer who goes out West hoping to civilize them via the law and John Wayne plays a rancher who reluctantly helps him out.]

To wit: Available on December 1, you can purchase a t-shirt with the quote from Muze Clothing that will help support the Josh Beckett Foundation.

California Dreamin.

The Sox left for California this afternoon and what better send off could there be than to make fun of their outfits?



Would you check out those gams? That boy has a very shapely leg. And really nice shoes. Someone ought to tell him how to wear a French cuff, though. Puffy sleeves are not attractive.



I suppose that we can give Victor the benefit of the doubt and pretend that the stripes on his suit are brown. And while his belt and his shoes do not match (and it appears that he's wearing black socks, too boot) at least he seems to have his priorities straight, making an all important stop at Build-A-Bear before he made his way to the bus.




Besides the fact that Theo is carrying both a backpack and a briefcase (making him look like a young-ish college professor), the only thing moderately interesting about the photo is that apparently his choice of airplane reading material is Harper's Magazine. Although as far as I can tell from looking at their website, not the latest issue.



Even though the pocket square doesn't match and he probably should have resisted the urge to button his suit old man cardigan style (just doing the top button), David Ortiz is able to rock the suit. It's a beautiful jacket.



And Francona. I'll just say that the difference in quality between Ortiz's jacket and Francona's jacket is stunning.

A-Ring-a-Ding-Ding.

I think I get it (or at least can justify it). The theme of Mike Lowell's fundraiser was "A Night at the Copa". The Copa was popular in the 40s and 50s. With those blue eyes, Jason Bay wasn't going to pass for Sammy Davis Jr. or Dean Martin. And what Frank Sinatra impersonation would be complete without an iridescent fedora? At least, I hope that's what he was going for and that that hat is not a part of his everyday going out wardrobe.

Leaving on a Jet Plane.

Leaving Fenway, Josh Beckett dons a snappy pin-striped suit:

Pedroia pulls off a tan and mint green combination(while wife Kelli goes with a drab gray sweater dress, matching gray boots that are too big and don't have a heel, and an over-sized black bag):

But Papelbon? Papelbon chooses the always classic look of an untucked white shirt and jeans:

XYZ.

Oh, Josh. Kitten.

When one pitches as well as you did last night, one (meaning me) hates to nitpick; however, when one (meaning you) is about to step onto a baseball field in front of thousands of people, in your home state of Texas, with thousands more people watching from home, and have their picture taken by Reuters, one should always remember to check their zipper first.