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Pedroia Won’t Sign for VanceAt first it was a funny afterthought to a game where the Sox players should have been asking for Vance Worley’s autograph. But now it seems like this could be the start of something bigger.
After last nights win over the Red Sox, Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press wrote a recap article that started with this sentence, “Vance Worley didn’t get Dustin Pedroia’s autograph. He got the former MVP’s attention—and the rest of the Boston Red Sox, too.” Intrigued, I read on.
It continued with, “[Worley] sent someone to get Pedroia’s signature on a ball before the game, but came up empty.” They then quote Vance about the incident and he said, “He wouldn’t give me one until I met him. Then I threw one up and in on him so I probably won’t get it now.”
The story was picked up by Yahoo’s baseball blog Big League Stew which is run by Kevin Kaduk this morning and he had this to say, “Worley wanted Pedroia’s autograph because of their common bond of being from the Sacramento area. He can also remember sneaking away from the Cape Cod League a few years back to go see Pedroia and the Red Sox play at Fenway Park.”
The story was then reposted on various other news sites this morning and I thought nothing of it.
But then it stayed with me all day. It buried itself deep into my cranium. How could Dustin do that? Why wouldn’t he sign the ball for Vance? Everyone knows our love for the Vanimal here. It’s an unspoken agreement between the five men that write for this site. We just all love Vance Worley.
That being said, I think Vance needs to take this as the line being drawn in the sand.
After the game the Red Sox had nothing but praise for the Rec Spec’d one. Pedroia said, ““He had great mound presence, and we were all very impressed. It’s really good for a kid that young to have a presence like that on the mound. He’s going to be a good one.”
And in his head Vance said, You should have signed my ball.
David Ortiz was equally impressed saying, “Did that guy just come up or something? Man, because he looked pretty good to me. He had decent stuff, and it really looks like he’s been around for a long time.
“They’ve got four big starters here, right? Well, he looked like one of them out there tonight. He really looked comfortable. It’s obvious that he’s listening to those big starters over there. It’s rubbing off on him.”
And in his head Vance said, Dustin should have signed my ball.
The real story here is that other teams, especially good ones, are starting to take notice of Vance Worley. It’s something that we’ve been saying all year long, that this kid is special.
The made up story here (which I’m much more interested in) is that Vance Worley threw down the gauntlet. News worthy? Maybe. Fire starter? You betcha. He asked for a simple favor, and was denied. Now it’s on til the break of dawn. Fingers crossed, we might even see the feud renewed in the fall.
The Red Sox-Phillies rivalry has just been ignited.
SW – Brian Maloney
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