Bullpen cop recounts grand slam

BPO Steve Horgan, just locking down job security for the next 86 years.

"I couldn't even hear myself it was so loud," Steve Horgan, a South Walpole, Mass., native and 27-year veteran of the Boston police force, told ESPNBoston.com. "I can't believe it. I don't know what to think. I can't believe it. It was an awesome feeling."

Like many of the Red Sox players and their fans, Horgan started to grow his beard at the start of the playoffs. The beard is a combination of dark and white colors, and he's trimmed it only once since he began to grow it.

Now, Horgan says he's not touching the beard at all. Even his boss, who was standing nearby after the game, told him not to shave it.

After the game, Horgan stood in the players' parking lot behind the Red Sox clubhouse as players were leaving. A few shook his hand.

Then Red Sox owner John Henry was leaving when his wife, Linda, introduced her husband to Horgan. The two shook hands and took a picture together with Horgan recreating his celebratory pose.

This is Horgan's first full season patrolling the Red Sox bullpen. It's now a good-luck detail for the Red Sox, and chances are he'll keep that post for the foreseeable future.

"It's awesome," he said. "The guys are great. The players are great, and the coaches are really great."

So not only is Steve Horgan just your every day nice guy, Boston Police Officer, next thing you know dude also has a playoff beard that challanges the likes of, i dont dare say it, Pedroia and Napoli.. Two nicest beards on the field right now. Three if you count Steve French over here in the middle of the YMCA. (If you know who Steve French is, you've found the right blog) I dont know how hard it is to be on the shortlist for bullpen duty in BPD but Steve Horgan just locked that spot down for "the forseeable future" yeah right, you drop him from Bullpen duty and sox nation will have an uprising. He is an icon now. His patrol hat will end up next to the bloody sock in Cooperstown, sox take the next 3...Callin it' Go B's...

-El Jefe


P.S. Who is going to tell John Henry that he is too rich to be that ugly? Unless he was just gassin' em all game.