World Series...

[RockyR]

Funny thing about this is that the owner of the company I work for is from Boston, a HUGE Red Sox fan, and hates the fact that I insist on coming to work kilted. I think I just may have to get a Wallace kilt now. That looks like either a modern Wallace or Royal Stewart. Either way, it's close enough. "Hey Mike! If it's good enough for your boy Papalban, it's certainly good enough for me!"

It was a Royal Stewart Casual kilt

[auld argonian]

Well, Rocky, they just showed the kilted guy dancing here on the sports segment of the news here in Chicago.

The smart-*** sports announcer's (Mark Giangreco, a real sarcastic dip) clever remark:

"Is it wrong for a man to wear a skirt? Not if he accessorizes it with a championship ring."

...but the kilt DID look good...

Best

AA

[Monkey@Arms]

Here's a nice write up about it:

Thousands line streets as Boston celebrates another Red Sox championship
20 hours ago

BOSTON - When the Red Sox needed a closer - even for their World Series championship parade - Jonathan Papelbon was their man.

Papelbon donned a kilt and danced his trademark Irish jig to the roars of tens of thousands of fans Tuesday as the city celebrated Boston's second World Series title in four years with a five-kilometre long rolling rally from Fenway Park to City Hall Plaza.

"The fans connect to Papelbon because he cuts loose, he's passionate," said Red Sox fan Ryan McCarty, who was carrying "Mobile Papelbon," a giant cardboard likeness with its legs on hinges.

Players and their families boarded 20 amphibious, World War II-era duck boats outside the stadium for a journey through the city. Manny Ramirez grabbed a microphone and yelled to fans along the route. "You guys are No. 1." "There's a party at my house tonight." "We did it for you guys." "We're gonna do it again next year." "You guys are the best fans in the whole world."

Fans showed their love back for the team, chanting "M-V-P!" to Mike Lowell and waving signs with wedding proposals to rookie Jacoby Ellsbury.

The two-hour parade paused three times for Papelbon to dance on a flatbed truck, accompanied by the Dropkick Murphys, a Boston-based punk rock band with heavy Irish folk music influence.

Before the parade, the band presented Papelbon with his own kilt plus one for ace Josh Beckett and general manager Theo Epstein, who had promised to dance with him. They also made a kilt for slugger David Ortiz, whom they hoped to coax into the jig.

At the first two stops at Copley Plaza and Boston Common, Papelbon danced alone, wearing jeans, a red championship T-shirt and dark sunglasses and waving a large cigar in his hand. Along the route, he played air guitar on a broom - a reference to Boston's sweep of the Colorado Rockies.

But he saved his best dancing - and wardrobe change, putting the kilt over his jeans - for the largest crowd which packed City Hall Plaza, the end of the parade. Papelbon was joined by relievers Hideki Okajima and Mike Timlin, who earlier had tied the bullpen mascot, a stuffed parrot, onto one of the speakers on the Dropkick Murphys' flatbed. On another boat, six members of Boston's bullpen recreated their post-season jam sessions.

Ortiz and Epstein never got the chance to don their kilts, as their duck boats continued on the route.

*** SNIP ***

Full story here.

Best regards,

Jake

[Nighthawk]

It was a Royal Stewart Casual kilt

Cool. Thanks. I couldn't quite tell from the picture. I just may have to get one from you.

[Mark Keeney]

I couldn't tell what was on the kilt. Was it a patch or embroidery?

Maybe a special edition run of Papelbon kilts?

[RockyR]

I couldn't tell what was on the kilt. Was it a patch or embroidery?

Maybe a special edition run of Papelbon kilts?

We had our patch on the lower right apron. On the OTHER corner was a special embroidery that the band (dropkick) put on there for him... it says "Dropkick" on top, "58" in the middle (his #) and "Murphys" on bottom.

Rocky, there's a half-page photo in the Globe today (top of the fold), would you like me to send you the section? I can post a photo of it online too, but if you want the actual paper, PM me.

Andrew.

PM in your box... thanks for the offer.

[Frank McGrath]

There are kilts to make and you are watching baseball?




the jonesing goes on.................

[fhpdo]

Any chance of us regular guys being able to get the Dropkick logo embroidered on our kilts. I think the Ireland's national with that logo would be awesome!

[RockyR]

Don't think so (at least in the immediate future). That's something their merch guy did on one of our kilts... not something we did.

That being said, if there's a Dropkick patch you'd like to put on a kilt, let me know. You can order a kilt and send me the patch and I'll sew it on the kilt during production.

[jmercier]

In all seriousness Rocky, I see this as a perfect buisness opportunity for you to try to contact someone in the red sox organization and MLB and see about getting perhaps a "Official 2007 red sox edition" royal stewart casual kilt into some of the shops around fenway.

Papelbon's kilt got HUGE press time here in the boston area, and I can only think that some off-the-shelf kilts , perhaps with 2007 world series champion red sox patches in the same spot as the DKM patch on papelbon's would sell very well for the forseeable future. I bet the people in the Red Sox organization would be all for it, it's the people at MLB who would be the sticking point would be my guess, as for getting rights to do so.