Glass Houses.

Ooh, misogyny! My favorite. Just what I was hoping for as I sat down to watch a baseball game! Fat women! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha...ha.

I know that there are people who are annoyed when Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo become bored and go off on a tangent but I'm not one of them. I figure that I have about the same attention span as Jerry; he starts to ramble generally around the same time that my mind starts to wander. I usually find the pair of them amusing. Today, however, we learned that Jerry Remy is a misogynist (I suppose that his son had to learn the behavior somewhere) and that Don Orsillo may be as well; it's either that or his moral compass is so shaky that it is easily disregarded, especially if he thinks that by doing so he will get an in with the cool kids. The whole thing was very juvenile. I was not amused.

Admittedly, my very first instinct was to fight back in kind: point out that no one anywhere would ever think to call Jerry slender or have a frank discussion about Don Orsillo's breasts. But that sort of response gets you labeled as a shrew or a harpy and shooed to the side and ignored.

So, reasoned discussion on why misogyny is bad. It just is. I think that I write this post every year. There is nothing inherently superior or inferior in the human genome. Gender comes down to the presence, or lack there of, of a Y chromosome. I was born without a Y chromosome; that fact might make you bigger than me, it might make you faster than me, it does not make you smarter than me, and it especially does not make you more capable of understanding a simple game than I am.

Don't tell me that it's not misogyny. David is fat. He was undoubtedly jiggling right along with his partner. And yet it was only David's partner that caused the pair of them to start snickering like a couple of junior high school bullies. They weren't laughing at her because she's fat, they were laughing because she's a fat woman.

Equally disturbing, the geniuses at NESN didn't tell them to shut up. So either there is no one in charge or the person in charge also thought that it was funny. And was cool with the idea that that caveman nonsense went out nationwide on the MLB network; it doesn't seem unlikely that anyone who happened to tune into the game would believe that NESN hates women. And I don't know that they would be wrong.

Two to Tango.

The estimable Red Sox photographer, Brita Meng Outzen brought her camera to the Dancing event from the other night and has posted the photos to her tumblr account. In case tomorrow doesn't come soon enough for you or NESN forgets to show the video.

Sound and Fury.

The man hasn't played a game for the Red Sox yet but I think that Adrian Gonzalez may have failed already when it comes to being an adopted Bostonian.

Gonzalez caused a minor uproar when he was quoted as saying that he wouldn't play in the All-Star game in Arizona this summer because of their law supporting racial-profiling. It turns out, Gonzalez was mis-quoted and will, in fact, fall in line like a good little soldier and play in the game if invited.

He told someone (Edes maybe?) over the winter that he had had to close his restaurant in Arizona because his patrons were too afraid to frequent it. But it's cool now because, although he still doesn't agree with the law, he's not a rock the boat type person. He's not willing to put himself on the line for a worthy cause or to fight the good fight or something.

I've got to say, I'm kind of disappointed in him.

This is Massachusetts, baby: the land of liberty trees, two if by sea, and tea in the harbor. This is the place where a player protest against MLB for not paying for club employees to go to Japan was generally lauded. The man could have had one awesome year in Boston (necessary to get him an invite to the All-Star game) and then left or stunk it up for however long he remained, and still have become an instant folk hero. Think about it: Sam Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Adrian Gonzalez. Instead he chooses to cower and toe the union line; no standing up for his principles or for what's right for him.

This may not have been a fight that he wanted to fight but it has landed in his lap. By being traded to Boston he was given a platform from which he could shout more loudly and a crowd which would have supported him immensely, as he railed against injustice (caveat: I have not read the law) but he has meekly deferred claiming that he's not "big into politics." Screw that and grow a backbone.

Now my whole rant may be tempered by my general dislike of the All-Star game (It's pointless and stupid and has anyone anywhere ever said "Oh boy! The All-Star game's on tonight! I can't wait!") and disappointment at the fact that I had already fantasized about the whole lot of them refusing to attend in support of Gonzalez and the mess that that would have caused. And I suppose that it's unfair to demand that Gonzalez care about something that he doesn't actually care about but he was just so cool.

Safety First.

Perhaps someone should have knocked Josh Beckett on the head earlier as it seems to have improved his sense of humor.

Gag Order.

You remember what I was saying just last night about MLB looking at new and innovative ways to bring in cash? They've also decided to expand by levying heavy fines. For example, they have extracted half a million dollars from John Henry for speaking his mind on the abuse of the revenue-sharing system by small market teams last spring.

Spring Thoughts.

(Reuters Pictures)

First: when I came across that photo I didn't recognize Carl Crawford, at all. And then I figured it out and it made me happy.

Second: I'm not complaining. NESN must have a good reason for not showing more baseball games during spring training; perhaps they don't think that anyone would watch and maybe they're right, people do have to work. It's just unfortunate that the first game that they have decided to air will be pitched on the Yankees side by Bartolo Colon. But what are you going to do? Not watch? Not likely.

Speaking of having to listen to the Minnesota radio guys, I think that I might have the wrong idea of what Minnesota is. In my head it Minneapolis/St. Paul, a couple of suburbs, and then a vast wilderness filled with lakes. If that were true though, why would they have the strange ads for visiting the forest? They seem sort of child predatory and creepy.

Say Cheese.

How could you not love that face?

The photo day blooper reel made it's appearance yesterday. It features Wakey asking about Tweeter.com, Youkilis being upset about having to talk about the lunchbox and fabulously rolling his R's while attempting Spanish (if he took high school Spanish, his teacher would be proud), JD Drew claiming to be illiterate, and a very angry Dustin Pedroia.