Ok, everyone's heard about Chad Johnson and his whining, wanting to get out of the city.  He's upset, he's been disrespected, no one's got his back, blah blah blah... But what you probably haven't heard about is Bronson Arroyo's little potential publicity stunt last weekend.

At the Hot Stove, Cool Music fundraiser in Boston last weekend (something that looks cool enough that the Reds ought to look into doing something similar), Arroyo was one of the featured performers.  During his set of mostly cover songs, Bronson threw in a cover of last year's hit song by Augustana, Boston.  But in the last chorus, Arroyo departed from the song's original lyrics and replaced them with this:

I said I think I’ll go to Boston
I think I need to come back
I think I need a ballpark
Where all the fans are there
I gotta get out of Cincinnati
I’m tired of the summer
I think I need the Olde Town
To fill my heart again
Ah yeah

Now maybe this was just a publicity stunt, maybe it was just something to please the locals, and hopefully he wasn't too serious about it.  But it's still major league stupid to do something like this.

Too bad the Red Sox didn't still have Wily Mo, maybe we could reverse that trade...if they threw in Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz as well.  Yeah, that'd happen.

(link courtesy of Bugs & Cranks)