Friday Night Retirement.

Duluth high school in Duluth, Georgia has two somewhat recent claims to fame. A dozen years ago, Nick Green graduated from said school and five years after that Brain McCann followed suit. While there both played basketball in addition to baseball. And that's probably where the Brian McCann-Nick Green comparison should end.

Tonight both went back to their old stomping grounds so that the school could retire their numbers during a football game. Says Green:

"It's always nice for people to recognize you, especially as long as I've been gone. It's great that they remember me and it's a nice honor for us and what we did for the program. It means a lot to us."

Here's what I found interesting though: In the second article it says that Green's leg problem was really a back problem that will require surgery to correct. I would assume that even if the Sox were to let him go on his merry way, they'd be responsible for paying for the surgery. So why the delay? It seems like the season has been over for ages.

Fun With Captions.

You know that I don't like to poke fun at JD Drew. I always feel bad afterward and yet I continue to do it. The photo caption from Reuters says: Boston Red Sox batter J.D.Drew smiles in the dugout after being replaced by a pinch runner during the eighth inning of their MLB American League baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto August 20, 2009.


He's like a little kid who has been told that he can't leave the dinner table until he's eaten four more bites of his broccoli. There. Four hits. Is that enough? Can I pleeeeease sit down now?




The Nick Green photo is from a couple of days ago and it's more semantics but again from Reuters: Boston Red Sox Nick Green leaps for the ball as Toronto Blue Jays Randy Ruiz steals second on a past ball during the sixth inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Toronto, August 18, 2009.

If it's a past ball, what is it now? Also, Green looks like a prairie dog. Or a whack-a-mole.

I Accuse Mr. Green, With the Baseball Bat, in Fenway Park.

...of beating the Baltimore Orioles.

I've been sitting on this for a couple of days hoping that Nick Green would do something spectacular with his bat so that I could share. Scoring the winning run of the ballgame will have to do. And getting the team back to .500 is aces.