Still editing photos, and probably will be through Opening Day (the domestic version!) but here’s where I stand…
February 28: mostly Justin Masterson (warming up and pitching in the night game) with a couple of Clay Buchholz, Jacoby Ellsbury, etc.
February 29: pups at the Minor League Complex, including Lars Anderson, Will Middlebrooks, Jose Vaquedano, Brock Huntzinger and more.
March 1: there will be photos, but I’m still grappling with the fact that it was a zero birthday.
March 2: highly random thus far.
March 3: Josh Beckett and Michael Bowden pitching in the B game, and at least one great shot of George Kottaras.
March 4: random again. Clay Buchholz throws a side, Ellsbury smiles, Mike Timlin runs, Kyle Snyder laughs, Jon Lester blows a bubble, Craig Hansen pitches, Bobby Kielty looks like Heat Miser… that kind of thing.
March 5: Beckett and Buchholz run, Kyle Snyder shows off his hair, Kielty… well, you’ve got to see it, Julian Tavarez gets pretzel-ified, Kevin Youkilis thinks he’s a pitcher, Lester pitches, and Lowrie scores the tie in the bottom of the ninth… almost.
March 6: in which I shoot the dugout rail almost continually while Masterson, Coco Crisp, and Kielty redefine what it means to smile. Plus the recently departed Doug Mirabelli takes one for the team, Jacoby slides and runs, and D-Lowe shows us the D-Lowe face.
March 7: Mike Bowden throws a side, Clay Buchholz and Justin Masterson take the mound.
March 8: just a few thus far from the sim game, including Kyle Jackson and Dusty Brown.
March 9: back to the minors! Nick Hagadone, Dustin Richardson, Zak Farkes, Jason Place, and many more, plus Lars crushes one…
Lots more to come!
March 20, 2008 at 5:14 am |
Wow. Who’s the guy leaning on the dugout fence in the March 8 set?
Also, Kyle Jackson looks like if someone genetically engineered a person with half of Jacoby Ellsbury’s genes and half of Jason Varitek’s.
And Masterson and Lowrie look like the happiest rookies we’ve seen in a while.
April 27, 2008 at 2:25 pm |
Ack. My bad–I forgot I wouldn’t get word that there had been a comment! That would be Chris Carter on the rail. And you are entirely correct about Masterson and Lowrie! Lowrie defines the phrase “grinning ear to ear”; Masterson just radiates joy when he smiles. (A friend of mine noted he had a smile that would melt a chocolate bar at 50 paces.)