FORT MYERS, Fla. — You asked, I’ll answer (or at least try to).

I figured a good lead-in would be video from two years ago when our good friend Gar Ryness (you know him as Batting Stance Guy) came down to do his thing in The Fort. Daniel Bard jumped into the fun, a moment he reminisced about Monday morning, leading to me do my imitation of Phil Plantier (and then proceeding to have quad cramps for the next 15 minutes).

Anyhoo, here we go …

@MikeGiardi asks: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”

This just in: The woodchuck has been shut down due to a sore shoulder.

Speaking of which, talked to Jason Bergmann this morning. The righty pitcher hasn’t thrown for the last week due to a sore right shoulder, and coming up short when undergoing the strength tests for the shoulder. The plan is to re-test Bergmann in the next couple of days and go from there. The hurler, who underwent an MRI when signing his minor-league deal with the Sox, had been throwing off a mound for a few weeks and reported he felt improvement over the past few days.

@tmurph207 asks: “If Its and Buts were Candy and Nuts would every day Really be Christmas?”

No, but it would be President’s Day.

Speaking of “its” and “buts,” asked John Lackey today if felt any different pitching without almost 15 pounds (I know, bad segue). He reported that he couldn’t tell a dramatic difference, but did say that he felt a bunch better this spring training than a year ago.

“I feel better at this point than I did last year at this point,” he said. “I feel I’m a little further ahead than I was at this point last year. Last year I was just trying to get through spring training healthy, because I hadn’t done it the two previous ones.”

One thing I remembered about Lackey last spring training was that he didn’t walk a batter until the very end of spring training last season.

@DrJeffLo asks: “Question For Gary Tuck – who does Salty remind him of? Fisk? VMart? Yogi? Bench? and what is Salty’s greatest attribute? ”

Fortunately Tuck was available just before heading out to his “catching lab.” When asked who Jarrod Saltalamacchia reminded him of he said. “Nobody, that was the goal. He’s so different than anybody else, physically.”

Saltalamacchia noted that he didn’t even start catching full-time until he was 12 or 13-years-old, having decided to commit to being a backstop after his brother (a former catcher) moved to third base. (Note: He actually served as Kason Gabbard’s catcher in high school as a freshman.) The catcher said that he really hasn’t patterned himself after anybody in particular, although he did admire the hard-nosed way Jason Kendall approached the game.

When asked who he wanted to ultimately be compared to, Saltalamacchia said, “I want to be myself. I don’t want to copy somebody. I want to be me. I want to be my own player.”

@ALargeRegular asks: “Why is he called JD when his first name is David?”

Straight from J.D. Drew this morning: His dad’s name is David so he was initially called Jonathan to avoid confusion, and that morphed into ‘J.D.’ But when the abbreviation really took hold was when the scouting director for Florida State baseball asked him what name he wanted on all the correspondence, and subsequent Seminole-related items. The answer was “J.D.” There you have it.

@DTufts asks: “Name of the new Ball Park set to open in 2012 (Lee County/Ft.Myers)?”

No name as of yet, but rumor has it that Blu Sushi in Fort Myers cut back on offering its traditional $14 All-You-Can-Eat lunch special in an effort to take a run at the naming rights.

@Pete_Morrison asks: “Which player’s physical conditioning has surprised you the most this spring? Good or bad.”

Lackey is the obvious choice, but other than him nobody really jumps out. Jose Iglesias looks a bit more muscular. One player who doesn’t really look any different, but is moving better is Marco Scutaro.

Scutaro, who didn’t play Winter Ball for just the second time in his professional career, explained this morning that he can actually raise his arm high enough to throw a baseball without just simply flipping it, as was the case for much of the second-half of last season. He also reports that the plantar fasciitis he had been saddled with prior to last season is a thing of the past.

“Not really. It gets a little tired but nothing like last year,” said Scutaro when asked if he could feel any discomfort in his right shoulder. “It’s fine. I couldn’t do any of this stuff last year.”

Got to go, but keep the questions coming either at rbradford@weei.com or on Twitter at twitter.com/bradfo.