Uncooperative Crickets

Red Sox Parade

Okay, here is the report of the Red Sox victory parade. It was a parade of DUKWs carrying Red Sox players and employers. They did not take advantage of their amphibious capabilities, although I am told that they did in the 2004 victory parade.

As the DUKWs drove by, people would chant, cheer, wave, and climb trees. Most players stood out and smiled at the crowd, others waved, Manny had a microphone that wasn't quite powerful enough, and David Ortiz seemed to have disappeared (he was riding in the same DUKW as Manny). And then there is poor, poor Jonathan Papelbon...such a wallflower. He was put on a flatbed truck with the Dropkick Murphys, and had nothing to do except to pretend to play electric guitar with a broom and dance jigs.

One weird facet of the parade was that many of the players had video cameras. This itself was not weird, since I could imagine wanting to record tens of thousands of people cheering and congratulating you. The surreal part was that this results in two parties who are videotaping each other, since many people in the crowd also had video cameras. This must mean something.

It was fun, and I was glad that I went. However, you didn't miss much if you didn't go.

posted by Dirk Awesome @ 9:09 AM