Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 13, 2006
Tranquility Base, the Eagle has Landed

Matsuzaka is on the ground and headed for his physical, and he's getting the Doug Mirabelli treatment:

The plane carrying Daisuke Matsuzaka, Scott Boras, and the Red Sox contingent has landed at Hanscom Air Force base.

Tom Werner, Scott Boras, Theo Epstein, Larry Lucchino, and Daisuke Matsuzaka were all seen leaving the plane and getting into trucks.

The caravan is going by police escort to Mass. General Hospital, presumably for Matsuzaka's physical, which is required before any deal is finalized.

For those of you not familiar with the area, Hanscom is located on the outskirts of Lexington, MA, between the Lexington Green and the north bridge in Concord where the revolution started. At this time of day, they're going to need the police escort to get to Mass General in less than two hours. :-)


Posted by David Pinto at 05:37 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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A police escort is ridiculous for a damn baseball player, as is using an Air Force runway. I hope Boston has to pay through the nose for that (yeah right) and more importantly I hope no "fan" pays the price for public services pre-occupied that should be actually doing their job.

Posted by: Nate at December 13, 2006 06:04 PM

W00T!!

I love being a New Englander and a member of *Red Sox Nation.

*No, I don't have one of those crappy cards.

Posted by: Josh at December 13, 2006 06:06 PM

Oh, and Hanscom Field (KBED) is a shared runway with the Air Force Base. The Massachusetts Port Authority oversees it.

It's not like they landed at Andrews AFB next to Air Force One and got special treatment.

Posted by: Josh at December 13, 2006 06:12 PM

I think, when the D-Mirabelli thing happened last summer, it was revealed that the Sox did in fact have to pay a lot for the police escort. Apparently, anyone can get one if you're willing to pay State Troopers overtime.

Posted by: dave at December 13, 2006 06:18 PM

I imagine it's an easy and fun diversion for the troopers too.

Posted by: Steve Brady at December 13, 2006 06:49 PM

The Mirabelli thing, of course, helped the Padres immensely. Matsuzaka doesn't do anything for us. I fail to see the parallels. ;-)

Posted by: Geoff Young at December 13, 2006 07:07 PM

Maybe Al Cowlings is driving. He does have some experience with this.

Posted by: Dennis at December 13, 2006 07:44 PM

The greatest baseball car ride was in 1936 when Californian Yankees Tony Lazzeri and Frank Crosetti
picked up new Yankee Joe DiMaggio in a 30s touring car to drive to Yankee spring training at St Petersburg. Tony and Frank drove the first two long hauls and then said: "OK rook, it's your turn to drive". DiMag replied: "I don't know how to drive".
The two vets almost left DiMag in the desert.

Posted by: Bob Shvodian at December 13, 2006 08:22 PM
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