Keep On Truckin'

As the Boston Red Sox continue to be a team hovering around the .500 line, Shank sees it carry over into something that used to be news worthy:

Much like the Red Sox, Truck Day just isn’t what it used to be

The man was elderly. Older than me, even. He’d emerged from one of the Fenway Park gates on Van Ness Street and as he approached, he asked, “Is this really an event worth covering?”

I chuckled and said something about tradition. When he passed, I turned around and noticed the stenciling on the back of his red windbreaker.

“Red Sox Tours,” it read.

Yeesh. Even team employees know that the expiration date on Red Sox Truck Day has come and gone.

And yet, we soldiered on — myself and several dozen Red Sox diehards — on a balmy February day as the Sox equipment truck was loaded with 20,400 baseballs, 1,100 bats, 200 batting gloves, 200 batting helmets, 320 batting practice tops, 160 white game jerseys, plus family cribs and bikes, and a couple million sunflower seeds that will be needed for eight weeks of spring training in Fort Myers, Fla.