Kevin Youkilis - Speed Demon
Another great game for Youk last night, though just saying it was a great game doesn’t quite do him justice. A day after stealing his first base of the year, he “slugged” an inside the park home run. Grady Sizemore had the ball sized up, but couldn’t quite get to it as the wind pushed it back toward the bullpen. If he had hit it 5 feet closer to right field, it would have been in the Sox bullpen and he’d be trotting around the bases. But instead, Sizemore missed and Youkilis ran like cheetah taking down a bison on the plains of Nebraska all the way around to home plate for a stand up home run. He never slowed down, not even for a second. This led to him almost plowing over Demarlo Hale, the third base coach, but no matter. He made it in safe and gave everyone in the dugout a good laugh.
I’m pretty sure Dustin Pedroia was buying the beers last night, as (according to Remy) those 2 had been debating about who was faster (or should we say less slow) between Youk and Pedroia. Though it seems Pedroia should be the faster of the two, this is a results based business and a steal and home run sprint in 2 days gives the title of least slowest to Youkilis.
Here is a list of analogies that I decided not to use once I thought of Youk as a cheetah taking down a bison on the plains of Nebraska:
- Barry Bonds running through the BALCO parking lot at 4:58 pm
- A wild Alpaca Llama making its way down a mountain at dinner time
- Tom Brady on a 7 yard touchdown run in the snow
- The fat kid in the neighborhood running for the ice cream truck
- A 29 year old jewish guy who has more hair on his face than on his head trying his best to stop running so he can make Dustin Pedroia buy him a bottle of Jack
Stumble it!