Red Sox turkey awards for Thanksgivings

The Boston Red Sox had some turkey moments during the 2017 season. This is a few I have selected.

Thanksgiving is upon us and the headliner is the turkey around whom the expected feast centers. Turkeys have made an amazing comeback in Massachusetts as the once native bird has returned in numbers estimated at 25,000. My own yard is in a residential area and the birds occasionally roost on out tool shed until my Norwegian Buhund dig takes enforcement steps.

Turkey also has developed another and more negative connotation. The term is generally applied to being negative or to be blunter – stupid. This is usually the result of the domesticated or bred for slaughter birds. As a youth, there was a…