Here are the latest episodes of Planet Papelbon from Comcast SportsNet New England.

And in this video, Papelbon addresses some of his pregame rituals.

In yesterday’s notes and musings from the Red Sox game, I pointed out that when Terry Francona was being interviewed that Big Papi was mocking him. Here is the video.

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Hat tip to ArmansCopyofSwank, a Deadspin commenter for the find.

In a post that comes from everyone searching for this video, I bring to you, Julian Tavarez rolling the ball over to Kevin Youkilis on Sunday. Unfortunately you don’t get to hear Remdawg and Don but nonetheless, enjoy!!

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Is there something going on between Manny and Julian Tavarez we don’t know about?

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Update May 8th: I was just watching the pregame show on NESN and Gordon Edes from the Boston Globe reported on why Manny was petting Julian. According to Edes, Julian was upset with Manny for not paying attention to the game. From what Julian said, when Julian is mad at Manny, Manny pets him to calm him down.

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Sue, who also happens to be mother, came up with an interesting idea for a Dunkin Donuts ad in her comment on the Matsuzaka Endorsement Deals post. This is what she had to say:

Curt will find DiceK in the locker room trying to say Pahk the Cah, and Curt will try to teach him. Dice’s comments will have English subtitles, and Curt’s will be Japanese.

I very much like Sue’s idea. I liked it so much I actually forwarded it on to the marketing group who handles Dunkin Donuts advertising. Also, I have expanded her thoughts as well. My thinking would be basically what she has said but also have an ad where Daisuke is teaching Curt Schilling some Japanese. Some words that Dice-K could teach Curt:

• yakyuu: which means baseball
• konichiwa: which means hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening
• tensui: which means pitcher
• kyaccha: which means catcher
• tantoukachou: which means manager
• ooinaru otokooya: loosely translated means Big Papi

It will be very interesting to see what the braintrust at Hill Holiday Marketing Group comes up with. After all, they are the ones that came up with “America Runs on Dunkin”. And for those of you who haven’t seen the Curt Schilling Dunkin Donuts ad or haven’t seen it in a long time, well, take a look below. Enjoy or shall I say enjoi.

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This is my name in Japanese. If you want to see what your name looks like in Japanese, click here.

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I have to wonder if she really did think Johnny had relations with himself out in center field..

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A tremendous takeaway by the Texas Ranger’s centerfielder, Gary Matthews, JR.

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In all my years of working in minor league baseball, I saw my share of manager tirades when being ejected, but this one here takes the cake.

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