Reliever turns rock star for a day at Red Sox parade

BOSTON -- Now performing for the Red Sox, Jonathan Papelbon.

He may not want to give up the day job, but the closer clearly achieved rock star status at the parade honoring the World Series champions.

Sharing a moving stage with the Boston-based band "Dropkick Murphys," Papelbon danced his own version of an Irish jig at three different stops along the route.

Wearing dark sunglasses, a Red Sox T-shirt and a kilt over his jeans, Papelbon also played air guitar with a broom while chomping on an unlit cigar.

Fans cheered wildly for whatever he did.

Fellow relief pitchers Mike Timlin and Hideki Okajima tried with limited success to match Papelbon's theatrics.

The reliever first performed his now patented jig barefoot on the Fenway Park field after the Red Sox clinched the AL East.

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