http://www.storeawaytoys.com/i.....pelbon.jpg

Google images is sure a lot of fun. I encourage you to check out the papelboner on there. Nothing like manufactured controversy at a time where teams that no one cares about are in first place.

I don’t know what to tell you except that you overreacted and you were wrong about that. Pay attention and be precise if you are going to insist on being so exclamatory.

What the heck are you talking about? The reference to Papelbon is that he pumps his fist and screams after almost every strike out he makes, something similar to what Joba did re Dellucci. I’ve never seen any ESPN articles about Papelbon’s fist-pumping and screaming (or Beckett’s fist-pumping, screaming and accosionally telling players to “sit the fuck down” for that matter) or K-Rod’s, yet Joba, who has not been around as long as those guys, does it a few times and gets his picture on the front page of the ESPN MLB page with the neg circle around him like slimer from Ghostbusters and the caption to his photo in the accompanying story by Kurkjian reads “Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain has become the poster child for players who show excessive emotion on the field.” As a Yankee fan, I have to love the hate, but you’re seriously deluded if you think good old fashioned Yankee-hating is not what’s going on with this story.