Street signs
Kevin Krueger has had it.
The Natick native is tired of the baseball writers overlooking the accomplishments of Red Sox slugger David Ortiz for two straight seasons as the Most Valuable Player of the American League, primarily because he happens to be a designated hitter. So, the founder and CEO of SupahFans.com, a startup clothier intended to “raise the bar for New England’s best sports fans,” started VoteforPapi.com, a preliminary first-strike if you will, to show the amount of support the Red Sox slugger has, in order to present a solid case come September, when the votes come in.
“I just wanted to get him some recognition and let the baseball writers know he should get the MVP Award,” he said.
So Krueger was out on Lansdowne, collecting signatures, 180 of them in his first hour, and handing out signs in support of Ortiz’s assumed MVP status once again this season, when we’ll probably debate — all over again — the worthiness of a player who doesn’t play defense receiving the MVP Award.
Elsewhere on the streets of the Fens, at the edge of Yawkey Way, a handful of folks, cozied up inside life-size bowling pin costumes — as if right out of some “Big Lebowski” dream sequence — posed for pictures with fans in support of nearby Lucky Strike bowling lanes. The bowling alley also sent a number of women, dressed in aqua Adidas suits with “Team Dice” etched across the back, riding around the streets on Segway scooters.
Dunkin’ Donuts representatives handed out free cups of coffee to fans in the 38-degree weather. Nice gesture, but the cream and sugar in it was akin to sucking down some leftover Peeps in liquefied fashion. Radio station WAAF was accounted for with a number of women wearing shorts more appropriate for the cover of Barstool Sports than the chilly corners of Yawkey and Brookline.
Of course, the bars — Cask n’ Flagon, Beer Works, Game On! — had lines wrapped around their respective corners. Nearby, McGruff the Crime Dog, along with the Boston Police, kept the pregame proceedings under control.
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