[AuH2ORepublican]

"Also, I wonder if Kerry got to meet his favorite player, "Manny Ortez," before the game."

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He didn't really say that his favorite player was "Manny Ortez," did he? I mean, not only conflating Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, but spelling Ortiz wrong?!? Too bad his all-time favorite Red Sox player Eddie Yost is no longer with the team---even worse for him, Yost never played for the Red Sox!

[NYCVirago]

He didn't really say that his favorite player was "Manny Ortez," did he? I mean, not only conflating Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, but spelling Ortiz wrong?!? Too bad his all-time favorite Red Sox player Eddie Yost is no longer with the team---even worse for him, Yost never played for the Red Sox!

It's true, it's true! ;) Here's what sportswriter Peter Gammons had to say about it:

So who puts the bug in candidates' ears about seeming what they are not? John Kerry last week professed to be a big fan of "Manny Ortez," then re-emphasized the phoofery by correcting it to "David Ortez." No, that was Dave (Baby) Cortez and "The Happy Organ." A few years back Kerry went on a Boston station with Eddie Andelman and said "my favorite Red Sox player of all time is The Walking Man, Eddie Yost," who never played for the Red Sox. Kerry is going to sweep New England. He's going to get 70 percent of the vote in Massachusetts. He doesn't have to be a Red Sox fan, all he has to do is not be John Ashcroft.