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.
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.