'Wally' roughs up shocked Lucchino - The Boston Globe

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Theo’s Gorilla Suit Would’ve Been Too Obvious
Published 8/4/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... , the Globe’s Gordon Edes covers a stunt performed by the same guy that brought you Roseanne Barr singing the National Anthem. This time however, under the guise of Wally The Green Monster. ...

Wally the Green Monster Crosses the Line
Published 8/4/2007 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... . But there's still a line that can be crossed, which makes the practical joke Red Sox owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner played on team CEO Larry Lucchino so funny. Gorden Edes of the Boston Globe explains: ...

Sox brass likes messing with Larry Luchino
Published 8/6/2007 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
I'm a day late with this one, but it's too good to pass up: Red Sox owner John Henry and Sox chairman Tom Werner had fun messing with Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino's head. We know this because Werner disclosed Sunday in the Boston Globe that he and Henry were in cahoots during a plan last week to deliberately punk Lucchino, whose temper is legendary. Werner said in an e-mail that he disguised himself as Wally the Green Monster as part of a prank: So I wanted to play a practical joke on Larry," he revealed in an exclusive e-mail yesterday. "John Henry was in on it with me. I told John to get Larry down to the field at 12:30. I put on the Wally suit (it was about 200 degrees in the suit), I walked out on the field and, after shaking a bunch of kids' hands -- isn't that what I'm supposed to do? -- I walked up to John and shook his hand. "Then I walked up to Larry and tousled his h ...