With the signing of Kelly Shoppach yesterday, that signifies one thing, the end of the Jason Varitek era. This is 6 years to late and has been pretty much irrelevant 2006 and was only on this team because we believed in this magical thing called, "calling a game".
It pains me that he was the lucky one to catch 4 no hitters. It pains me that he was voted to the all star game in 2008. It pains me that people didn't realize once he stopped juicing he was completely useless. I hated the way he took time from Doug Mirabelli, I hated the way he ran, I hated the way he talked, I hated the way he wore a C on his jersey, I hated the fact he tried to tarnish the number 33, I hated the way he looked at me when I told him, "I don't think very highly of you", I hate the people that own a Varitek player tee or Jersey.
He should only be given credit for 2 great things in his Red Sox career, 1. Fighting A Rod, 2. Banging Heidi Watney. That's it. Those are the two things I can stand by him in his career, all the rest is overrated bullshit.
Even if you read carefully in Martin Luther King Jr's, I Have A Dream, speech you can see even HE was excited for this day.
"And when Jason Queeratek isn't on the Red Sox, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the Varitek not being on the Red Sox, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Boom, racism solved.