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Red Sox mock Pablo Sandoval picture (Photo)

By Will Osgood

Nov 25, 2014; Boston, Ma, USA; A man in a panda costume greets Boston Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval after the introductory press conference at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 25, 2014; Boston, Ma, USA; A man in a panda costume greets Boston Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval after the introductory press conference at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports /
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Three new Boston Red Sox join up to mock Boston media and fan in “fat photo” 

The Boston Red Sox have long been an organization that favors mocking fun. In their 2004 World Series run many of the players began with the “Cowboy Up” motto thanks mainly to Kevin Millar.

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At other times, they’ve taken over a hockey tradition by growing playoff beards. Of course, there was also the infamous chicken and beer clubhouse incident, which ultimately doomed the Bobby Valentine era in Boston.

Though it’s an entirely new cast of characters in Boston now, the fun continues.

A photo was taken on the first day of Spring Training of newly-signed Pablo “Panda” Sandoval, which made his gut look larger than a 50-year-old beer-aholic.

In typical Boston fashion, media and fans alike grew in outrage that their newly signed prize was so out of shape.

In light of the outrage, fellow prized offseason signee, shortstop Hanley Ramirez, tweeted this from his official Twitter account.

Sandoval, of Venezuela, has long been known as a fun clubhouse presence, and it is no surprise that in joining with fellow Latin American and friend Ramirez, they would produce a funny poke back at the Boston media.

Ramirez and Sandoval were two of the biggest offseason acquisitions for any team this season, and signed at nearly the same time as the first big-name players to join new teams this year.

Prior to this photo Sandoval’s response to the photo and the outrage was simply, “let them talk”. It is clearly not such an outrage within the Boston clubhouse.

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