If any player on the Boston Red Sox can make Terry Francona laugh, it is Dustin Pedroia.
How unlikely is it to put the diminutive—in size, not in spirit—second-bagger into the cleanup spot in the lineup?
Well, Dustin Pedroia went there, and of course, hit a home run.
We keep waiting for him to come into the game in relief. Stranger things have happened in baseball.
Dustin rivals Babe Ruth. During a game in spring training, he left the dugout to go get a couple of hot dogs at the concession stand.
If ever there was a hare separating himself from the tortoise, it is Dustin. If the hare had Dustin’s personality, that slowpoke turtle would be eating dust in Aesop’s Fable.
If Dustin Pedroia had been William Tell, he’d be able to shoot the apple out of his son’s mouth with a crossbow.
If Dustin Pedroia had been Red Riding Hood’s grandmother, the little girl would have knitted the girl a wolf-hair jacket for th...
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