because he had this nugget to say recently:"I made my decision solely based on the contentment of my heart and what I want to show up every day and do. Not on everybody else’s experiences from it, based on only my own experiences from it, and that’s how I made my decision, period, end of story. … Right now it looks like I’m making the right decision. Who knows four years ago if I would have been on four All-Star rosters and won a World Series with team in ’07 if I wouldn’t have. So it looks like right now ‘Cinco Ocho’ is right and everybody else is wrong.” — Jonathan Papelbon, on whether — in the face of Joe Nathan’s possible season-ending elbow injury with Minnesota — he regrets choosing closing over starting (from weei.com)
Whenever he refers to himself as Cinco Ocho in the third person all is right.
He is just a confident, allbeit simple kind of guy, who is playing to his strengths.
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