Hot on the heels of the release of this season's commemorative Red Sox wines, second baseman Dustin Pedroia has gotten into the mix with an interesting, um, product of his own:



Just goes to show what Jerry Remy's been proving for years: whether your endorsement deals are through the MLB or not (Dusty's clearly isn't as they had to replace the "B" on his hat with some weird looking "Boston" print... there's not much worse than that, like those imitation team shirts they sell at drug stores and gas stations where all the players have the team logo and anything else connected to the franchise aside from the players' name and number entirely airbrushed out...), you can still sell just about any jar or bottle or crate (or whatever else) of crap that you want as long as you're associated with the Sox.

On a side note, the product apparently used to sport Big Papi's likeness. I've never seen it so I can't speak to the authenticity of that comment, but honestly, how does this company decide to go from Papi to Pedey if that's true? Surely the marketing team didn't think a 130-pound white dude could be a more effective spokesman for SALSA than a 260-pound Dominican guy who probably downs the stuff by the barrel. There's just no way. Whatever the case, you really dropped the ball here, PLB Sports.

Props to The Big Lead for the pic.