Manny gives Pedroia a Rolex for winning Rookie of the Year

Last summer, Manny Ramirez told Dustin Pedroia that he’d get him a watch if he won the Rookie of the Year award. Today, he made good on his promise.

Pedroia was probably imagining that he’d receive something similar to this water resistant beauty, but Ramirez outdid himself as he always does.

From Joe McDonald:

If the Red Sox don’t pick up Manny’s option next year I will cry real tears. Is there anybody more likable in all of sports?

He’s the anti-Nomar.

Sox get down at Lowell’s Dancing with the All Stars

Mike Lowell, Dustin Pedroia, Jonathan Papelbon and Alex Cora each made asses of themselves for charity last night.

The “Dancing with the All-Stars” event benefited Lowell’s charity, which raises money to help treat Miami and Boston kids who have cancer.

Lowell won the event, and Pedroia must be developing a little brother complex after losing to the third baseman in both ping pong and dancing over the last week.

Papelbon wore a hideous black lace shirt that he somehow pulled off.

At this point, would you flinch if Papelbon channeled Kevin Bacon in Footloose and did a back flip on the mound while yelling, “Hey, hey! What’s this I see? I thought this was a party. LET’S DANCE! “

Me neither.

Pedroia made up for his lack of drag by ripping off his shirt while he was on the dance floor and throwing it to John Henry. For reasons that will probably never be known, “Daddy” was written across his chest in glitter.

Terry Francona described Pedroia’s idiocy as follows:

“I thought I was going to have a heart attack. My chest hurt, I was laughing so hard. Pedroia is a moron. You can write that. He is a moron. He was dancing, he looked like a puppet on a string. He’s such a little gamer, but he’s looking over knowing we were crushing him. He’s drinking the Red Bull. He’s exhausted. He’s trying to do these things with this girl he’s not strong enough to do. It was hilarious.”

Sox and Dogs has some video footage if you want to take a look.

Mike Lowell is a ping pong ninja

Not sure how I missed this one, but here goes.

On Tuesday, Kevin Youkilis suggested the spring training equivalent of a sunset duel, offering to “play anyone [at ping pong] at anytime if someone would get him a table.”

Comcast SportsNet brought the table, a round robin tournament was setup between Youkilis, Pedroia and Lowell, and Lowell kicked everyone’s ass.

For a trophy, he was presented with the Golden Paddle. A fine trophy if I’ve ever seen one, this beauty appears to be a regular ping pong paddle with the rubber ripped off.