Posted on 09/27/2016 3:23:37 PM PDT by TBP
Amen. The sports 'journalists' at ESPN have been drooling over Ortiz the way some blonds drool over black porn stars.
I never liked him. I call him Big Poopie.
Jeez, I wonder what these guys think about Ty Cobb and babe Ruth?
Have you ever wondered how he went from this little punch-and-judy hitter whom the Twins released to being “Big Papi”?
Simple answer in three letters.
oops .. oh .. that’s 4 letters..
he was a twinkie once upon a time?
wow, my mind is melting,, I go way back to the old Met.
Ped’s
This thread might be interesting...
5.56mm
The writer is a self described: “unapologetic, lifelong Yankees fan and a long-time season ticket holder.”
Ortiz shattered and humiliated the Yankees in 2004, leading the Red Sox to an epic comback from a three games to none deficit to winning four straight games and the league championship.
Ortiz may not be a saint. But the bile behind this article is simply a testament to the writer’s butt hurt.
I called him “Large Pape” for some reason. It seemed to torque off Red Sox fans that visited PNC Park.
Large Pape always struck me as a fraud.
I am not a fan of Large Pape though I do like the Red Sox.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I don’t think a career designated hitter should be in the Hall.
What turned me off to the Red Sox was the large number of lahdidah Harvard phonies like Doris Kearns Goodwin and John Kerry (”Manny Ortez”) who make a big show of being Red Sox fans, like it gives them the common touch.
Ortiz is in the line of big dumb sluggers on the Red Sox like George Scott and Mo Vaughan. Sam Horn was also slated for the role, but he never made it.
Then you had the sullen sluggers, Reggie Smith and Jim Rice. I used to give Reggie the benefit of the doubt until I recently read a book on how nasty he really was. Rice was just sullen. And he hit into a huge number of double plays, my pet peeve.
Agree 100%. A-Rod was only mildly tainted from the 2003 test. His real problems came later, because he kept on juicing. Same with Bonds - he had that BALCO issue that was unrelated to the 2003 test. I'm not a fan of Big Papi, but I have followed his career somewhat, being a masochistic Twins fan (yes, that's redundant. No, there's not another kind of Twins fan). The Twins let him go because the already had two big LH batters in the middle of the order, one (Morneau) who at the time was better and played the same position (1B). I am shocked that 13 years later Ortiz is the best of the three, and it hasn't been close since around 2010.
Speaking of "playing fast and loose with the truth," the author wrote "David Ortiz's name was on a list of 104 players who failed a PED test in 2003, the same year he went from a marginal player approaching age 30 to launching the legend of Big Papi.
1. He was a very good hitter in 2000 and 2002, marginal and injured in 2001. The Twins let him go because they had Morneau, Ortiz was about to get expensive through arbitration, and he didn't mesh well with their (stupid and somewhat dated) organizational hitting philosophy.
2. I guess he was "approaching 30" the same way I am, at age 51, approaching 75. In 2003, he was 27, which is eons from 30 in a baseball player's career. I know it's only 3 seasons, but on average, those three season are the best three of a hitter's career.
Nothing anyone writes is going top top what he did after the bombing. At least not north or east of Hartford.
Womanizers and drunks, and Cobb from all accounts was an ass - but man they could play ball....and not juiced, unless alcohol counts...
That they weren't cheaters?
Sure, but he's OUR jerk!
GO SOX!
John Kerry's favorite:
Red Sox player: Manny Ortez
President: George Jefferson
Apostle: Ringo
Football Team: The Temptations
Member of the Partridge Family: Marcia Brady
Yep, late twenties is usually a ballplayer’s prime.
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