Mazzulla Wins Coach of the Year, Still Plotting Fenway Heist

By JR·1 min read

TLDR: Joe Mazzulla just got named Coach of the Year and the lasting image isn't a tactical breakdown — it's him casing Fenway Park for exits.

None of this is new behavior, of course. Mazzulla is the same guy who, during the championship parade, decided the appropriate celebration was cracking a beer over Hank's bald head on a moving duck boat. The man does not operate inside the normal coaching template, and that resurfaced parade clip is doing numbers again now that the COY trophy is sitting next to him.
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Mazzulla at the parade dumping a beer on Hank’s bald head t.co/1HLTOF3kyZ
The bit that gets lost in the memes is that Mazzulla earned this. He took a roster through a brutal regular season and kept them locked in while half the league was load-managing into oblivion. But the reason this award hits different is that the guy holding it is genuinely, uncomplicatedly weird in the best possible way. Coach of the Year, Fenway heist coordinator, beer-on-Hank's-head guy. All the same person.

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The parade moment with Hank, dug back up to mark the occasion