Truck Day is here!

It is being reported that the Sox have forgone their usual lease of a brand new United Van Lines tractor trailer in favor of a 1942 Dodge box truck with bald tires, a leaky radiator and a questionable exhaust system. The move has saved the team approximately $3000 dollars, and was described by team owner John Henry as being "LowRisk and High Reward" if it actually makes it to Ft. Myers. United Van Lines leasing agent Trot Boras had no comment.... Okay..... Just trying to be funny, not negative.... Sorry for the lame attempt.... I hope Theo, Henry and company make me call them geniuses in October........ Go Sox!

For members of Red Sox Nation who are South of Boston, could you give a time table on when the Truck will be going through the major cities on I-95?

Richiewhispers - I thought it was pretty funny...

We've officially reached the point of saturation with your coverage of the Red Sox.
I know the Globe is part owner of the team, but enough is enough. All winter, both print and online material has been basically one infomercial after another.

I like following the Sox and I look forward to spring as much as the next person, but please, a box of emails from Red Sox Nation is packed up too?!?! Did they charge the lemmings $5 to submit them?

Completely absurd.

Richie,
I do appreciate the humor, but it is Atlan Van Lines tractor trailers.

I only know that because of the picture above.
Mr Atlas

Does anyone know if there is a GPS on the truck so we can watch it move south??? I live in Virginia and would love to go wave as it passes through ... Go Sox!

How do you load a box of emails? Must require special shoes...:-)

KristysMom,

Go out in your front yard and wave a $5 bill. I guarantee you that the truck will find you.

Who cares? The Bruins are where it's at this season, not the lame Sox.

You mean the Sox are gracious enough to allow you to buy standing room tickets??? What a deal!!

You mean the Sox are gracious enough to allow you to buy standing room tickets??? What a deal!!

How about we really save some money and just "email" all of the equipment to Fort Meyers instead of trucking it? After all, in this high tech age, nothing is impossible! (Just a little more humor)

How did they get the emails into a box? Emails come on a computer, not in boxes. At least, none of the emails I've ever received.

Maybe I'm not emailing with the right people.

the people that want to wave at this truck should seriously consider just jumping in front of it because you're life is clearly meaningless at this point.

Oh my god... look people, I love the Sox as much as anyone, but give me a break. Do we really need pictures of the inside of an empty truck and the rig on the front page of the paper, the morning after a big Celtics-Lakers game? This is front page news? Someone has WAY too much time on their hands.

commenting on saturation only ads additional saturation. get a brain moran!

How bout a webcam mounted in the cab of the truck with the driver's perspective? Of course you'd have to pay a nominal fee to view the webcam!!!

WAIT!!! I never got my email to enter the raffle for a lucky fan to ride shotgun! RATS!!!

"but it is Atlan Van Lines tractor trailers"

THAT WAS THE FREE UPGRADE :)

That would be pretty cool if they could post GPS info so that as the truck made it's way south, Red Sox Nation could find them and cheer the truck on!

hey, this is my first Truck Day, and I have to admit, it's really fun telling friends here in Nashville, "Happy Truck Day." Then watching their faces get really confused as I explain to them what it is. It's amazing. And for those who think that it's too saturated, I give you this...Mr. Potato Head Red Sox Nation member. Yeah. that's awesome, and it's going on my desk.

Available for a limited time only: Official Boston Red Sox alternate logo moving jerseys and diecast 1:24th scale models of the actual Atlas Moving Truck. Own a piece of Red Sox history and show your team loyalty.

Be sure to flash your Red Sox Nation membership card in order to receive your bonus Wally the Green Monster toliet brush scrubber for only $4.95 more.

To NobodyCares: Until the Bruins WIN SOMETHING, why don't you just shut up.

I think the best Truck Day was the one in '06. '07 was pretty good. '08 Truck Day was very disappointing. I'm still not over it. We can only hope that Truck Day 2009 will be at least almost as good as Truck Day '06. My personal favorite part is when they turn on the Webcam and you can see the driver dozing and then someone wakes him up with a baseball bat but it's one of them maple ones and it splinters all over the truck cab. Then I know it's almost spring.

Hope, is what this means. It makes me want to read Bart Giamatti's essay again. It means that I can carry inside me into Fenway the spirit of the friends I have lost along the way, that there will be an Italian Sausage and a sense of well-being in my belly soon, that I will be able to yell "Congrats Jim Ed", that the world is unfolding as it should....

Hey Hoss & the rest of the downers, If you don't want to read it, don't click on it. I think it's fun. Of course, it's absurd, but that's what makes it FUN. You can go read about the stock market; I'm following the Truck...

allyousay:

1. I am not your friend. We merely work together.

2. The look on my face was not confusion. It was pity. I feel bad for you.

Truck Day?!?! All that does is remind me that multimillionares will be basking in the sun in a week and I'll still be stuck here in single digit weather. Doesn't Lucchino's PR dept (aka, the Globe) have anything better to do?

We as Red Sox Nation have officially lost our minds! It's a friggin truck! Go Bruins!

You people hoping to 'wave to the truck as it passes' realize that it is filled with equipment and not the actual players, right? "Cheer the truck on" ? I really hope that is well masked sarcasm...

I'm sorry but the publicity this act receives is just pathetic. It's a rig filled with baseball bats, baseballs, jerseys, bases, athletic supporters, socks... on and on. Forgive me if I fail to see the importance of 'moving a bunch of inanimate objects from one place to another place'.

Nothing wrong with supporting the team - but can't we at least just draw the line there?

And to Susan - So, it's only about winning championships, right? Another (active!) Boston sports team has the BEST record in its entire league (more than can be said about the Sox all at any point last season) and you think a stupid equipment TRUCK takes precedence in the news? Seriously?

Give me a break. That is patently ridiculous.

I got them to acknowledge Truck day here in evil empire territory this morning on my local news!!!!

Yah what's the route-I want to go out and take a picture!
BTW-you naysayers who think we don't have a life...what's it say about you and your need to comment on others fun?

To Susan:

Thank you. It's people like you who make going to the Garden for a Bruins game so much fun and an experience at Fenway a pain in the arse. I'm a huge Sox fan but you know the great thing about being a Bruins season ticket holder, no pink hats, no "official red sox nation" card, no bandwagon, no truck day, no wave, no sweet caroline..............

If the truck sees its shadow will there be six more weeks of winter?

This is all a little off the charts. The annual picture in the Globe was always a cool subtle reminder that spring is coming. Now that we have celebrity truck starters (I do love Johnny Pesky) I am over it.
Maybe the Red Sox can become the first MLB team to have well endowed cheerleaders dancing on the dugouts between innings.

I thought the good Doctor had moved to LA.

Ahhhhh, in the midst of the darkest winter in a long time, HOPE! Only baseball fans could get excited and wax poetic about a bunch of guys loading a semi-trailer full of boxes. The metaphoric meaning of this event transcends the mere act itself. It is symbolic of a new beginning. Let the games begin!!

It means spring is near.....more reliable than the groundhog. Over the years, it has also meant that I can start having an interest in sports again, for with the history of the Bruins (this year notwithstanding), my limited interest in basketball, and my complete lack of interest in football, winters have been very long indeed.....

I heard if you purchase a subscription to RED SOX NATION, you can view the web-cam the truck driver has mounted on his dashboard.

Wahooo!!! I'm gonna score me some standing room tickets. SWEET!!!!!

Susan, the Red Sox are gay and so are you. Go Bruins!

OF COURSE IT'S SILLY!!! To those of you getting upset about the coverage of an equipment truck going to Spring Training, that feeling may just be telling you to take a breath and step back, and look a bit more for the fun and silly things in life, because you're being too serious! You are bumming yourself out!

Don't we all have enough to worry about with our jobs and the economy and the weather? We all NEED things like this to keep ourselves from being the stockbroker that offs themselves when the market drops, or just not to go off on innocent people serving us behind the counter. If you can't lighten up, at least control yourself to not rain on everyone else's parade. No one made you read the article but you.
Go, silly equipment truck, go! : )

Truck Day is for students and the unemployed with nothing better to do.

Hey Susan: Not sure if you noticed but the Bruins are the best team in the NHL by 7 points, so seems to me they've been winning a lot - as opposed to the Sox who can't win a World Series even with a bought team. So.... YOU shut up. What are you, 4 years old?

Big Story - TRUCK HEADING SOUTH. Wow, I'm surprised the GREEDY owners didn't find a way to charge people to see the truck off.
Hope all the insuffarable Sox (Yankee wannabe) fans all head south with them to see Tek and Petey and co.

I'm all about the sox. but lets get over being obsessed about every little thing they do during the off season. GO BRUINS GO CELTICS. I don't even think about the sox until opening day. no need, when you can be following the other teams who are currently repping our city!

Funny the B's didn't go almost 100 years between championships, and aren't exactly "buying" their sucess

SOME OF BELIEVE THIS SO-CALLED EQUIPMENT TRUCK IS NOTHING MORE THAN A RUSE TO GET SOX FANS ALL EXCITED ABOUT THE SEASON, ISN'T ALL THE EQUIPMENT ALREADY IN FLA?? WE THINK THIS TRUCK DOES A CIRCLE AROUND FENWAY AND THEN DRIVES INTO A GARAGE NEARBY AND NEVER LEAVES BOSTON. ANYONE EVER SEE THIS RIG ON THE ROAD???

The Sawx are so 2004. Get with it, there is a whole new bandwagon to jump on.

20 meaningless pictures of an empty van, the dashboard, a plow cleaning up street garbage and guys moving cardboard boxes...no wonder the Globe & Boston.com are losing so much money. You are paying people to take boring pictures no one cares about. Why would anyone want to advertise on these pages?

They have the best record in the NHL so I agree with Nobody Cares. You must be a card carrying member of the Nation, Susan. The Sox will probably come in 3rd in the AL East anyways.

Go B's

As a Yankees fan, I just have to tell you that we're not using a truck this year to load the gear. We had Rolls Royce build six special oversized vehicles to hold the equipment. The pitchers and catchers are following a few days later in Air Force One. Just kidding!!

You are all human garbage

The truck is on its way, who in there right mind really cares. You guys will report about anything. This whole article is ridiculous.

I hope the trucks don't make it. You people make me sick.

Susan, I hope the truck runs you over. Yours Truly, Jerry Remy

I'll be sad when I take down the Truck Day Tree and put away all the Truck Day decorations. Maybe just one more carol though, so I can last until Pitchers and Catchers report....

Bunch of losers getting excited about a moving truck. People need to get a life. Life in Boston must really suck

Um .. Heather "Pinky" .. in case you haven't noticed, this site is BOSTON.COM. We are entitled to be Red Sox fans. Why don't you find your way over to the NY Post or the NY Daily News. Clearly you don't belong here.

Truck day! If that has impact on someone's life I wonder if they have a life. Why don't we celebrate when the first load of Red Sox laundry is officially done after the first practice, and get photos of the crew folding the uni's.

Sox Appeal, sox fans give me the ghey and all you loasah's posting are the worst the BEAN has to offer, tek stinks, loweel stinks, ellsbury stinks, BEANTOWN is all done

GO B's

They should so put a GPS in the truck on it's way to spring training, I would love to follow it on my computer so I could know exactly when spring training really begins. I love me some BoSox. Can't wait to see Wally! Go Nation!!!

They should so put a GPS in the truck on it's way to spring training, I would love to follow it on my computer so I could know exactly when spring training really begins. I love me some BoSox. Can't wait to see Wally! Go Nation!!!

Sox Nation is the laughing stock of the MLB. Who else would have Truck Day, Sox Nation, Tessie, Queer Eye, Fever Pitch.....not the Bronx Bombers. Plus Youkilis is a boob.

Bruins/Yanks in 09'

I knew they shouldn't have let Pedroia drive, there's no way he can see over the steering wheel!

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J/K you da man Scrapper!

Yes, I think it's ridiculous. But you know what? With the economy in the toilet, the weather reminiscent of my freezer (which is probably warmer)...I gladly embrace something reminding me of a better future: be it overpriced Fenway franks, warmer weather, or just something to take my mind of the mess of the world...

The owners of the Red Sawx really made one of the best investments in history. This fanbase can be strung along to buy anything with a Sawx logo stamped on it.

#30
To quote Ed McMahon..... "YOU are correct, sir"

It's fun hearing the Bruins fans talk smack to the Sox fans. I love both teams but I'm tired of the B's being treated as the red headed step child. The Bruins are first overall and the main sports story is the Red Sox equipment truck rolling out of town. The B's owned Boston in the 70's, the days when the Red Sox and Pats couldn't give tickets away. If the Bruins can get win that first playoff round, they will go deep and they will have all the pink hat/band wagon jumpers just like the Sox. Everybody loves a winner.

Hey Mr Brightsiode, quit being a debbie downer before i drop a brownnote on your tooth, with the conomy in shambles last thing I want to is line some old guys pockets with an inferior product unlike the spend to win yanks, nation is weak , beantowns weak, our Bah's close befah 2, LAME

SOX APPEAL= Ghey

Go B's

They might as well not even unpack that thing, Yanks in '09, book it.

27-5

Ah, get this, gang! The departure of the truck means that despite all that Mom Nature is doing, spring (or what passes for it in the northeastern quadrant) is coming and then summer cannot be far behind!
Lets Go RED SOX ** *** Lets Go RED SOX ** ***! The Pats, Bruins and Celtics can't generate this excitement for such a mundane act. Which raises a question: Why are they moving excercise gear down to Fort Myers, when they have full facilities there already? Curious, that's all.

Mom Nature? Lets Go RED SOX ** *** Lets Go RED SOX ** ***! ?

Grow up, pal

Point of interest.....Boston.com is the website of the Boston Globe, the same newspaper that is owned by the New York Times Company! Even the "Red Sox Nation" doesn't own the rights to the blogs!........Also, feel free to blog in the NY Post or other NY papers. Sadly, you will hardly see any mention of the Red Sox. We are not nearly as obsessed with the Red Sox as you are with the Yankees! Let's look forward to a good spring training for both teams with no injuries!

I love the Bandwagon Bruins fans everywhere!

Will they begin to paint some of the trucks pink for our female yuppie "sox fans" we see at games talking on their cell phones?

Did the truck see it's shadow?

Bad day, NavinJ?

Dear mattytars, bite me. I'm pink and I'm proud.

For everyone asking about the e-mails....

I was at "Truck Day" today, and fans sent good luck messages to an e-mail address provided by the Red Sox Insider at MLB.com, and each individual e-mail was printed out and put into a box to give to the team. There were a lot of e-mails.

Damn, why so much anger and animosity? Seriously, if you love the Sox, as I have for all of my 42 years, then enjoy this. If it's too much for you, then move on to the rest of your life. As for the Bruins, of course I love seeing them do well. The Celtics too. Believe it or not I can actually root for all 4 local teams without having to denigrate the fans or players of any of them. Born and raised a Boston fan and love all my teams. Vent your anger somewhere else, this is just sports.

couple days left, you can let out a big exhale the Yankees didnt get Manny, that is what you are all worried about

Can the truck just keep driving around the country for about a year and show up for 2010 sping training? The front office took the season off so why not the truck?

I shared Truck Day with as many baseball fans as I could yesterday at work, especially the Yankee fans. Everyone agreed, we Sox fans are certifiably nuts. They wished their teams thought about the idea first. A Pirate fan told me he wished all fans were as passionate as Boston fans. The Yankee fans just shook their head. All they could say was Damn Red Sox fans! Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!

I was glad you have an interview with the driver. But what about his family? Does he have a wife? are his parents still alive? What was he like as a kid? Can we see some quality investigative journalism on this please

Next year they'll get permission from Menino to close off the street, set up turnstiles, and sell tickets to fans who will then get the 'privelege' of loading the truck themselves for $75.00. Really, that's a small price to pay for exclusive access and a 'once in a lifetime' baseball experience. Ohh, and when they're done, they have to paint the Green Monster. Lucchino as a latter day Tom Sawyer.

m sly
Perfect! And don't forget that Croatian trueism:
"Snow in November, Christmas in December"

Truck day - fun folk lore tradition.
If there's one thing that "nobody cares about", it's hockey. The most depressing day of the year, is when September rolls around, and you start hearing the words "exibition hockey".

It's 3 degrees, I haven't seen my lawn in 3 months, my driveway is still a glacier, the pool is unregonizable under a heap of ice and snow, I'm tired of starting my truck 15 minutes before I go anywhere...but hey, I live in New England. It's supposed to get up to 40 today, time to pull out the shorts...Wait, the equipment truck is leaving from Fenway today? Heading to Florida for spring training...somehow the sun seems a little warmer, spring can't be far behind...Thank You Red Sox

Go Yankees!!!

I am appalled at the size of the carbon footprint that this diesel burning leviathan will create on it's trip to Florida. I demand that the Red Sox invest in a fleet of Prius vehicles to transport their equipment south.

I love the Sox, but what is the deal about the truck? Get a freakin life!

So, in order for all of these "good luck" emails to be packed up in boxes, they would have to be printed out on paper. Something tells me that wasting paper doesn't fit in with their "Fenway Greening" section of the team's site.