SOX SAYS BULLYING SUCKS

At the urging of a 12-year -old fan, The Boston Red Sox baseball organization will be the third professional American baseball club to submit a video for Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign. The San Francisco Giants have completed one; The Chicago Cubs will submit one, then the Red Sox.

Sam Maden, a 12-year-old Sox fan, petitioned the team via Change.org to create a video for the project, founded by Dan Savage and Terry Miller as a way to fight antigay bullying and teen suicide by letting young LGBT people know that life does get better. Maden conceived his petition campaign as a way to honor an uncle who died unexpectedly in January. About 9,000 people, mostly Red Sox fans from New England, signed Maden’s petition, according to a news release from Change.org. Team executives announced over the weekend that the Sox would make a video.

We were trying to find a 2011 Red Sox group photo of all the players together (don't ball clubs do that anymore?) but to no avail!! Thus, we have this fun blooper tape of photo day 2011 with the Red Sox recording sound bites for media promos.