@firebrandal Tweet’s of the Week

by | Aug 18, 2014 | AJ Pierzynski, Brock Holt, Christian Vazquez, Giancarlo Stanton, Jackie Bradley Jr., Joe Kelly, Jose Canseco, Nomar Garciaparra, Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Will Middlebrooks, Yoenis Cespedes

With another week of baseball in the books for the 2014 season the Red Sox remain the cellar dwellers of the AL East. Despite playing putrid baseball for the majority of the season, the Red Sox just turned in one of their most productive weeks of baseball; going 4-2 over the last six games. Although losing two of four at home to the lowly Astros is disappointing, going on the road to sweep the Reds was one of the highlight’s of the week. Hopefully we will see more of that over the final month and a half of the season.

A trio of Red Sox greats (Kelly O’Conner www.sittingstill.net)

The overall highlight of this week in Red Sox baseball was the induction of Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Nomar Garciaparra, and Joe Castiglione into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame. Thus, this week’s Tweets of the Week will feature many tweets from Thursday’s festivities, which should produce much nostalgia.

Honorable Mention: I hope this comes to fruition sometime soon:

10. After a rocky first inning for Joe Kelly on Tuesday against the Reds, @SurvivingGrady tweeted this gem of a .GIF describing his current mood. The Sox would end up going on to win this game courtesy of a late inning Yoenis Cespedes two run home run. 

9. Brock Holt loves the Kiss Cam almost as much as he loves playing every position for the Boston Red Sox:

8. If you have never seen the video of Jose Canseco taking a fly ball off the top of his head, which resulted in a home run, go ahead, do yourself a favor, and click here. Today, this almost happened to Yoenis Cespedes. Unfortunately, I only have this tweet as proof:

7. On Tuesday night, Christian Vazquez successfully executed a sacrifice bunt. Obviously this led to some AJ Pierzynski mocking:

6. Ladies and Gentleman, this is potentially your starting third baseman and center fielder for 2015. Look, I’m totally on board the JBJ defensive bandwagon, but if the guy can’t achieve an OBP at a clip over .300 with no power I’m not sure he belongs in the everyday starting lineup:

5. This is depressing… Bring me Stanton:

4. On Thursday night, Jackie Bradley Jr. walked for the first time since July 24. This moment was greeted on Twitter with  a chorus of mocking tweets about his lack of walks. This one was the best:

3. My childhood revisited:

2. No words here… 

1. This short excerpt about Pedro Martinez and Sandra Bullock is easily one of the funniest pieces of information I read all week. This is Pedro in a nutshell: