Monday was a big day for Boston sports fans.<\/p>\n
After flying to Santa Clara on Sunday, the AFC champion New England Patriots officially kicked off Super Bowl Week<\/a> ahead of their big showdown against the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, back in Boston, the Red Sox celebrated their annual \u201cTruck Day\u201d at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n The Red Sox loaded up their team equipment truck<\/a> with 20,400 baseballs, 200 batting gloves, 200 helmets, 1,100 bats, 20 cases of bubble gum, and 60 cases of sunflower seeds. It will travel from 4 Jersey Street to Boston\u2019s spring training facility in Fort Myers \u2014 a 1,440-mile drive.<\/p>\n The truck will deliver critical gear for the Red Sox, who officially kick off spring training on Feb. 10 with pitchers and catchers reporting next Tuesday.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Truck Day represents many things for Red Sox Nation. It\u2019s a sign that the offseason is nearly over, spring training is about to begin, and baseball season isn\u2019t far off.<\/p>\n Before long, the Red Sox will be playing baseball again<\/a>, eager to begin their pursuit of another championship. Even though Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow<\/a> on Monday, predicting six more weeks of winter, Truck Day means that spring is just around the corner.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday was a big day for Boston sports fans. After flying to Santa Clara on Sunday, the AFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,58579,2543],"class_list":["post-552005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-spring-training","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116006073677587034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}