Those Red Sox pitchers really did order fried chicken to the clubhouse
A. Isaac 
It appears all those rumors about fried chicken and beer during Red Sox games was true after all. Hurler Jon Lester spoke to the Boston Globe about the staff’s fascination with rally beers and Popeye’s chicken.
“There’s a perception out there that we were up there getting hammered and that wasn’t the case,” Lester told The Globe via telephone from his home in Georgia. “Was it a bad habit? Yes. I should have been on the bench more than I was. But we just played bad baseball as a team in September. We stunk. To be honest, we were doing the same things all season when we had the best record in baseball.”
“It was a ninth-inning rally beer,” he said. “We probably ordered chicken from Popeye’s like once a month. That happened. But that’s not the reason we lost.
Just a matter of time before a marketing exec at Popeyes capitalizes on this news with a spoof commercial with one of the pitchers. I can see it now.
Jonathan Papelbon runs out of the bullpen in the ninth inning and as he gets the mound, the manager hands him a Popeyes drumstick instead of the ball.
“Hey skip, that’s Louisiana fast”, he says.
Cheesy, but effective right?
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