Boston Red Sox All-Star DH David Ortiz sat down yesterday with Baseball Tonight host Steve Berthiaume to talk about his selections of Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Bautista and Robinson Cano for the 2011 MLB Home Run Derby next Monday night.

The most exciting play in baseball is probably the walkoff home run. Second to that is probably the walkoff base hit. But how exciting is the walkoff gunning down of a runner at the plate?

Pretty exciting if I do say myself.

Check out Boston Red Sox left fielder Darnell McDonald throwing out Toronto Blue Jays DH Edwin Encarnacion with a great assist from catcher Jason Varitek blocking the plate to preserve a 3-2 win for the local nine.

The “feud” between Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett and NESN sideline hottie Heidi Watney dates back to 2009 when during an interview Watney asked a question to Beckett. His response at the time was “I’ve already answered that question!”

And as FC so graciously reminded me, Watney said to Aaron Bates during an interview that “Josh isn’t the friendliest guy” and there was a look of terror on the eyes of Bates.

Well after Beckett put together a masterful performance in the 2-1 win over the Houston Astros on Sunday, Beckett exacted some more “revenge” on Watney when he snubbed her for a postgame interview.

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Here’s a pretty cool montage from NESN with Boston Red Sox starter Josh Beckett who is from Spring, TX.

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Never mind the fact that Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia got the game-tying two-run single in the eventual win over the Houston Astros on Friday night. He just had to let home plate umpire Laz Diaz what he thought while running said single out.

I’ll set the situation for you:

Pedroia took exception with a strike called by Diaz on a 2-1 count. Pedroia let Diaz know what he thought about the call before the next pitch. Now, I’ll let the video do the rest of the talking for me.

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Here is the lastest Dunkin Donuts commercial featuring the 2011 Boston Red Sox.

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In case you missed them, here is the first one featuring Terry Francona, Dustin Pedroia & Carl Crawford. And here is the second one featuring David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez. The third one features Pedroia & Crawford. And if you haven’t seen the blooper reel, that’s a must see as well.

Here is the third in a series of Dunkin Donuts commercials. This one features Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia and left fielder Carl Crawford.

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In case you missed them, here is the first one featuring Terry Francona, Pedroia & Crawford. And here is the second one featuring David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez. And if you haven’t seen the blooper reel, that’s a must see as well.

Are you curious as to what the new spring training home of the Boston Red Sox, Jet Blue Park, is looking like now? Look no further and check out the video below.

The Boston Red Sox became the third MLB team on Friday to release a public service announcement in support of the It Gets Better Project which supports LGBT youth and teen suicide. They join the San Francsico Giants and Chicago Cubs as teams who have released videos.

When you think of Boston Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, I’m pretty sure him hitting a triple isn’t the first thing you expect from him when he gets to the plate. You probably expect him to get a single, double or maybe even a home run.

But definitely not a triple especially considering he had only 10 in his career which includes two this season.

With Gonzalez sitting on 999 career hits in the 4th inning of Sunday’s eventual 12-3 win, he laced a ball to the triangle off of Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo and ended up on third base for his third triple of the year. More importantly it was the 1000th hit of his career and 100th of the season in a Red Sox uniform.

But what’s funny about it is a few things actually.

First off, Gonzalez isn’t exactly the fastest runner on the Red Sox and he’ll tell you just that. Secondly, he has more triples than Jacoby Ellsbury this season (Ellsbury has one). And lastly, he’s second on the Red Sox in triples beyond the recently DL’d Carl Crawford who has four this year.

Oh and by the way, he’s now hitting .348 on the season and leads all of MLB with 64 runs batted in this season.

I guess we can see why Theo Epstein and the Red Sox have coveted this guy for the past few years. And the best part is that we get seven more years of him in Boston.