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Why is Truck Day a Day?
Posted February 13th ago via ArmchairGM
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It's one thing to be a fan of a team; it's another to be a real-life Gil Renard. But living in the midst of what is Red Sox Nation,' I can't help but scoff at the similarities in fanaticism that embolden both Renard and those that take the proverbial Nation' to the next level. Case in point: Truck Day. Saturday afternoon marked the annual celebration of Truck Day,' when Red Sox clubhouse employees load up the truck with all items necessary for the upcoming month and a half of spring training. The truck gets packed front-to-back, floor-to-ceiling and then embarks on the 24 hour trip to Ft. Myers. In most cities, I am willing to bet people don't even know when spring training starts, or even thought about the fact that equipment has to be shipped to its team's spring training facility. They probably just assume it's already there. But in Boston, we have turned this into an annual celebratory event. To the point where the Globe and other media outlets feel compelled to send reporters there to cover it. In fact, Globe photographer Steve Silva blessed the general public with a 36-shot photo album. Nevermind the fact that he was even there taking photographs, how in the hell did he find 36 ways to capture the day? Should we applaud his artistic creativity? Or question his need to take pictures of the same shot from several different angles with several different people? I choose the latter. Yet his crowning achievement, a hidden jewel, if you will, was the two shots he took of Richard Fisher and his son Braden. Most people who outside Gate D were observing Truck Day were local fans that drove from within an hour of the city or happened to be passing by. Not the Fishers. This father/son tandem flew in from Sneedville, TN to witness the front end of the truck's annual pilgrimage. Let's take that in again. This father/son tandem flew in from Sneedville, TN to witness the front end of the truck's annual pilgrimage. Are you kidding me? Listen if you find some sort of solac...

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