Jonathan Papelbon Is Just Like a Great White (But Only When He’s Cinco)

Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon and his alter ego Cinco Ocho will face their former team, the Boston Red Sox, this coming weekend at Citizens Bank Park. Pap and his pal "Cinco" were doing a radio interview in Boston the other day and things got a bit convoluted as to just who the WEEI radio hosts were talking to.

Papelbon was asked the standard question of what it will be like to face his former teammates. Via Larry Brown Sports (via SRI):

“It won’t be weird,” Papelbon said. “It might be a little weird for Pap,
but it won’t be weird for Cinco. Cinco is like a Great White, when he
smells blood he attacks.”

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But what about the way things ended in Boston last season?

“Cinco don’t feel bad. Cinco’s gutless. He don’t feel bad for people.
Pap felt bad. I didn’t feel bad for some of the players. It was more
that I missed some of the guys.”

And really, how can you not miss Tito? Pap prob DVR's Sunday Night Baseball and orders up some KFC just to get that old feeling back.

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