Comments on: Great moments in media synergy: Red Sox fat photos

By: cpinct

cpinct — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:31:00 +0000

I agree with you except for Lester’s photo. That’s not DS. That’s fried chicken eating, beer drinking, gained 20 points of fat syndrome. I can’t stand Lester anyway, so I think it is great that he was one of their biggest chokers down the stretch.

By: cpinct

cpinct — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:21:48 +0000

Camera angles can change the way someone looks but not a doubt in my mind that Lester was the biggest fried chicken eatin, beer drinking MF in the club house. He is most definitely several pounds heavier in the second picture. I find the entire article pretty darn funny, and even if it is true, it probably had nothing to do with the Sox demise down the stretch. Were they eating chicken and drinking beer when Bucky Dent homered to end their season? Probably not. It’s just a major league choke job. Sometimes it happens (but I enjoy it a lot when it happens to the Red Sox),

By: btwicey

btwicey — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:28:10 +0000

Wow, how pathetic. Must be a slow news day in Boston.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:40:29 +0000

They look the same. Start to finish in terms of fatness. One or 2 look a bit leaner, in fact. Other than that, not much changed; a bunch of ugly guys who unlearned how to shave by the season end and had a distinct air of superiority about them in the pre-season shots and a distinct air of “where’s my golf clubs” about them in the late season shots.

By: firedude7160

firedude7160 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:34:54 +0000

Anyone else notice that Lester looks like he has downs syndrome? Couldn’t they have picked a better picture? http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/gallery/2011/skinny_on_conditioning?pg=4

As for the question of them looking “fatter” later in the season, it’s hard to say. The spring training pictures are posed so they make the player look their best. The late season pictures are action shots that don’t provide the same posing. So you can’t really compare the two

By: drmonkeyarmy

drmonkeyarmy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:33:08 +0000

Whatever they do, don’t follow Arsenal’s conditioning program….unless they want a rash of nagging muscle injuries and impossible to heal ankle problems.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:02:06 +0000

One of the biggest topics of discussion in MLB front offices right now is conditioning philosophy. Bill Beane is advocating a “return to the ’70′s” in the sense of leaner, better conditioned ballplayers. Further, he’s seeing the season as more of an endurance event, rather than a series of sprints, and is gradually moving the A’s to an EPL like conditioning program of more and more distance running (at very low speeds) and less weight work.

By: pellypell

pellypell — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:44:10 +0000

Papi really let himself go this year, exhibit 1:

http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/60/90/11609096_tml.jpg

By: 18thstreet

18thstreet — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:19:26 +0000

And, unlike CC Sabathia and Bartolo Colon, they’re fat.

By: ThisIsBaseball

ThisIsBaseball — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:14:50 +0000

I rarely would stick up for the Red Sox (as a life long Yankee fan), but part of me feels like this is an incredible cheap shot. I get the Boston’ media desire to stab at the Red Sox to death for their completely unbelievable collapse. I would be pissed, too, if the Yankees did the same thing. And yes, some of the players look like they did gain weight (Beckett and Lester most notably), but good God, just look at CC this season. I love the guy, but he regained all the weight he lost during the off-season. Other than from other NYY fans, I don’t hear much chatter about his weight in the media. I get it, he performed when we needed him (for the most part) and rain isn’t his fault. But still… I think part of the weight gain is the nature of the life of a baseball player… tons of take-out and eating out regardless of where it comes from.

By: shawnuel

shawnuel — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:12:44 +0000

Wow……..Boston media is really THAT desperate right now? With photo angles and such you can make anybody look bigger in one instance. Lester is the only one who looks considerably jowlier. And Beckett, while not a candidate for male modeldom, is certainly not particularly ugly. Lackey, on the other hand………

By: bosfaninva

bosfaninva — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:55:03 +0000

You’ve clearly spent a good bit of time comparing the relative attractiveness of major league pitching staffs. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it certainly indicates a fondness for the high hard one.

By: aaronmoreno

aaronmoreno — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:43:15 +0000

Someone snuck in a Randy Couture photo for Varitek.

By: hasbeen5

hasbeen5 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:29:04 +0000

Surely the Captain didn’t partake in such shenanigans.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:56:51 +0000

Wakefield is the best looking one in the bunch and he’s 45.

Hey now, there’s no reason why a guy can’t remain handsome until he’s 45. Or 46, for that matter.

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:40:05 +0000

But they all have the personalities like “King of the Hill” rejects, so they have that going for them…I swear Bucholz’s mother must also be his cousin.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:39:32 +0000

Varitek might have just been rubbing the chicken on his face. Where did the wrinkles go??? Fried chicken and beer get rid of wrinkles?? Whoda thunk it?

By: cleverbob

cleverbob — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:37:28 +0000

Not a looker in the bunch.

By: Jonny 5

Jonny 5 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:37:16 +0000

I swear Lackey was created by Don Martin and brought to life. Somehow it has to be. I mean LOOK at him!!!

By: hansob

hansob — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:33:40 +0000

I’d go with Sons of Colonel Sanders.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:31:22 +0000

Good lord, they ARE ugly.

Beckett and Wakefield certainly look like they blimped it up…not so much Lackey and Lester.

The biggest (no pun intended) issue is that they all sucked when it came crunch time. That’s the really unforgivable part.

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:29:26 +0000

I like the first picture- “Doin’ the Red Sox Rag”.

By: woodsmeister

woodsmeister — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:24:48 +0000

OK, Sawx fans itching to start a sports blog. You have your name: Fried Chicken Posse. friedchickenposse.com is still available.

What are you waiting for? Go!