The Watertown High School baseball team has always been an odd group of kids, but this year we have taken it to a new level. This year’s team has adopted Mike Carp, Red Sox utilityman, as our role model.

Carp, who joined the Red Sox at the beginning of the 2013 season — just in time for the World Series run — has never been guaranteed playing time of any kind on the team, and has recently been the subject of criticism for an inability to get a hit with runners in scoring position.

Despite all of this, as co-captain Kevin Arsenault would say, he is always trying to do anything that he possibly can for the team. Before every WHS game, starting with a win vs. Stoneham, Arsenault brings the team in and makes an inspiring speech about how we have to adopt the attitude of Mike Carp and think that people overlook us because we might not produce as well as people expect us to

As I said, this is very odd, but at the same time it is kind of inspirational. Carp, being a guy who doesn’t play very much, has to be ready to do anything that he possibly can at any given moment. This is the attitude that the team has adopted and, so far, it has brought success.

Hopefully the baseball team keeps up its recent success and makes a run in the Division 3 state tournament with the support of Christopher Michael Carp.

  –May 20, 2014–