Papelblog

Hey, let's pop some Viagra and close out Major League Baseball games with raging mega-huge Papelboners! Jonathan Papelbon is by far the biggest addition to the Red Sox since we stole the league's most valuable Papi from the Minnesota Twinkies. As someone who I've recently regained a good deal of respect for- Stu Scott would say, kid's been straight nasty. Even though Papelbon went into the game last night in a non-save situation, making him temporarily unable to get his league leading 30th save, the moment he stepped up on the hill I was finally able to go to bed and stop clicking the refresh button on the ESPN.com box score to see if the sordid-of-late Red Sox had blown the 7-3 lead we had accumulated against the Oakland Athletics.

It speaks AC/DC-level volumes about the state of rookie pitching in the AL that our young Texan fireballer could possibly end up FOURTH in the AL rookie of the year balloting... behind three other pitchers! The other thing that Papelbon makes me indirectly excited for is the emergence of his teammate, Jon Lester, who beat out Papelhero AND these other three guys for Minor League pitcher of the year last year.

But let's not lose focus here- my main point is that while Jonny-boy may not be a shoe-in for the league's top rook this year in the MLB, he is a standalone leading vote-getter for my blog's Wall Of Man Rookie of the Year. I know that's more important anyways... just look at how excited he is.