a very boring Terrible Cartoon

I gotta be honest, folks. Following Wimbledon, the 15 inning Tigers game, and the (murderous) 10 inning Sox game, all of which I watched because it was a Sunday and I am a crazy person, I was pretty much reduced to this:

So I suppose I could have dredged the depths of my soul to come up with something clever or funny for this week’s Terrible Cartoons, but eh. Eh. At this point I’m more or less content to limp weakly into the All Star break. Mid-season malaise? Maybe. It’s kind of difficult for me to get all tense about being 4.5 games out of first when my other team is 7 games back and in third place and boasts as its most amazing starter a dude named Armando Galarraga.

In this grand spirit of Whateverness, have a pointless and terrible Dustin Pedroia doodle. If you can overcome your own heavy June weariness to lift your clicking finger, it may be clicked for a reasonably larger version.

I try to be excited about Red Soxian stuff such as Dustin Pedroia these days and even then people start screaming things like, “OBVIOUSLY YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE BASEBALLS WHAT A DAMN FOOL HOW CAN YOU EVEN LOOK AT DUSTIN PEDROIA WHEN THERE IS IAN KINSLER IN THE WORLD YOUR TEAM IS THE DUMB,” and I just get so tired.

Anyways. Can someone tell me what the deal is with Red Sox players and gigantic chins? Pedroia’s got one, and so does Youk, although Youk tries to camouflage his with a dead gerbil stapled to it. Many teams have a long, rich tradition of players WITHOUT enough chin (see: Posada, Jorge and Guillen, Carlos), but the extra-big chin may be a relatively new and Bostonian development.