The 3933 cocktail (shaken or stirred)
Mike:
Christ is Jacoby en fuego or what?
Steve:
Yeah, he is, but so is the guy he drove in, Salty.
Mike:
Kid's turning out to be a pretty friggin fine catch isn't he?
Steve:
Yeah, not only is he throwing out runners, he's now the number 2 catcher in in majors in OPS.
Mike:
And, get this, Tek is something like the 7th best backup C in MLB.
Steve:
Remember when the catching spot was seen as our biggest weakness?
Mike:
Seriously. The 60/40 split with rook/vet was absolutely prescient.
Steve:
You think I can get a Sox jersey with number "3933" and "Varitamacchia" across the shoulders?
The "VARITAMACCHIA" idea for today's strip comes courtesy or reader Joel Millman.
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.08.03 at 09:05 AM
Varitamacchia is some SERIOUS salty yum. I will order one in every color.
Posted by: Natalie | 2011.08.03 at 09:13 AM
Varitamacchia. Genius. Sign me up.
Posted by: James | 2011.08.03 at 09:16 AM
even teal, Natalie?
Posted by: Welkah | 2011.08.03 at 09:17 AM
Now if they could just beef up their handling of the knucklah a bit, we'd really be in business!
Posted by: soxinsix | 2011.08.03 at 09:18 AM
Veritas Varitamacchia. Stirs the crowd; never shaken.
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2011.08.03 at 09:23 AM
Mmm... Teal7
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2011.08.03 at 09:24 AM
Er, teal!
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2011.08.03 at 09:24 AM
Even BigBri would wear a J. VARITAMACCHIA jersey. (Mainly because it would actually fit across his girth.)
Posted by: Bob | 2011.08.03 at 09:32 AM
Nice win, but if that throw from center had been a little less Bernie Williams-ish Salty would have been dead by 5 feet. Winning is delicious.
Posted by: ponch | 2011.08.03 at 09:41 AM
I had a varitamacchia the other day at Starbucks. Not bad, but heavy on the salt.
Posted by: Kaz | 2011.08.03 at 09:42 AM
Swoon away
Posted by: yazbread | 2011.08.03 at 09:55 AM
Not to throw Joel Millman under the bus, but Simmons says the exact same thing in his 7/27 column (see footnote 8)... I'm not sure who is borrowing from whom, but the sports guy beat you to the punch:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6808403/red-sox-report-card
Posted by: HunterStars | 2011.08.03 at 10:33 AM
I just don't see Wake winning #200 at home against the vaunted Tribe.
Posted by: yazbread | 2011.08.03 at 11:17 AM
Don't look now but something is slithering 1 game back ;O
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2011.08.03 at 11:43 AM
Timmuh.
Posted by: da kine | 2011.08.03 at 12:08 PM
Saltalamacchia's slide last night was beautiful. If he'd just slid at the base, he would've been caught. As it was he slid 2 feet right of the bag, and caught it just with his left hand. That was a huge heads-up, baseball-smarts play, and vindicates him pinchrunning.
Posted by: Chops | 2011.08.03 at 12:39 PM
*bag should be plate.
Posted by: Chops | 2011.08.03 at 12:40 PM
Interesting re Simmons coming up with that too. Most likely just two great minds (Millman and Simmons) arriving at same conclusion separately.
They are both journalists and neither is Borges or Barnicle, so I doubt there was anything untoward.
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.08.03 at 12:58 PM
Why the Borges hate, hb? I'm not a fan, but he's no CHB, Tomase, or Barnicunt.
Posted by: da kine | 2011.08.03 at 01:52 PM
Because Borges got caught plagiarizing. (Along with Barnicle and Doris Kearns Goodwin... seems to be a Boston thing.)
That was why I used those two as examples, i.e, I doubt WSJ journalist JM plagiarized from Simmons, but with these other guys, all bets are off.
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.08.03 at 02:45 PM
Little less work for you today, H.B. You can just use the first frame over again.
Posted by: Bob | 2011.08.04 at 08:53 AM