"Candy and costumes...how can you beat that?"

Well said. I mean, beer and chicken in the dugout is one thing, but cider, costumes, and candy corn? PARTY TIME EXCELLENT.

That's what brings out the best in sports. Athletes? Having fun in COSTUME? That's the total opposite of having your lazy friend show up as Curt Schilling at a Halloween kegger with a Red Sox jersey and a pillow around his stomach.

Some athletes get the point and totally love showing up in costume, while a token few just sleepwalk through the "fun". Take, for example, the latest Halloween mirth by the Boston Bruins as they spread some Halloween cheer at the Children's Hospital on Tuesday. Tell me that you weren't hoping for Tyler "Hail" Seguin in a devil's outfit, Shawn Thornton as a surgeon, or Tim Thomas as GOD.

Picture courtesy of NESN's Naoko Funayama.

Yes, that is, from right to left, Adam McQuaid as Fonzie Flintstone, Jordan Caron as the iParty Purchase, and Zdeno Chara as OH GOD THE ENERGIZER BUNNY'S HERE TO KILL US ALL. I'm totally sorry for using Duracell all these years!

And way on the left, it's Fratboy Charming himself, Brad Marchingband!

Looking at the still-frame jocularity coming from the Bruins made me recall just how much fun Boston sports has with their costumes. While the Green Men in Vancouver pooled $100 together and squeezed into Spandex, at least our players get creative with their Halloween gigs! You must remember all the costumes that New England athletes have sported over the years, right?