Saturday, December 14, 2013

Day 258: Jacoby Ellsbury Bids Farewell to Fans

On the same day the New York Yankees offically introduced Jacoby Ellsbury, the former Red Sox center fielder bid farewell to the city he's called home for the past seven years with a full page ad in the Boston Globe. The sentiment was nice... the ad was sort of lame.

I've always perceived Ellsbury to be a pretty self-centered individual. I could be totally off-base with my assessment of his personality—but if I was, don't you think he'd still be in Boston? It's all about the money for him and with that fancy and completely inflated contract he just signed, I guess he can afford a full page ad in the Globe. (I wonder if John Henry gave him a discount?)

He had a full page ad—that's roughly 11.5" x 21"—more than enough space to offer up a more heartfelt departing message to the fans that have had his back through injuries (and there have been a lot) and slumps and errors. The same fans that cheered him on when he was bashing home runs, but never turned on him when he wasn't. Instead, all those fans got was a giant picture of Jacoby holding up the World Series trophy (see? self-centered), and a couple of lines of copy containing little emotion.

Maybe Ellsbury's not very good with the writing thing or maybe his public relations person sprung this on him at the last minute so he didn't have time to come up with something really creative and meaningful. Salty's message was much more sincere...

Now let's see what type of reception Jacoby gets when the Yankees visit Fenway on April 22nd.

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