Report: David Ortiz Shot, Wounded In Dominican Republic

CBS Boston ^ | 6/9/2019

[Vermont Lt]

Big Pappi.

World Series hero, and the guy who spoke for the Red Sox after the marathon bombing:
“This is our f***ing town!”

Kind of a Boston Legend. Huge “good guy.”

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Four Americans have died recently in the DR. I’m puzzled too. The DR is the most popular country in the Caribbean for tourism.

[TaMoDee]

nwrep —— Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger, I too never heard of the guy until I read this thread. Oh Well I learn something new all the time.

[laplata]

I don’t recognize the name.

[coaster123]

There is nothing embarrassing about not following sports.

There is much to be embarrassed about not following the basic rules of your native tongue.

[OkiMusashi]

Big Papi.

One of the good guys.

[South Dakota]

Its hard to beat 10 men on a ball field

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The biggest mistake that the Minnesota Twins ever made by letting him go to Boston.

[Karl Spooner]

Trump hater, too. I’m sure Trump will wish him well, regardless.

[advertising guy]

Nothin on Drudge

[nwrep]

Never should one be embarrassed about not following sports, possibly the lowest IQ profession after acting. :-)

[advertising guy]

What a stupid comment

[peggybac]

Lost our Yordano Ventura there as well. :-(

[fungoking]

Strong argument that he was a roider. His offensive production really took off after age 26. All the other players that share an unusual latter career spike are all PED users.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.cbslocal.com/2016/05/27/david-ortiz-ped-steroid-red-sox/amp/

[jonascord]

"Who???"

Yeah, me too. Since he was AL, from Boston, it wasn't a whole lot more when I found out.

[healy61]

I didn’t know who he was either. I do now.

[Gene Eric]

>> poisoned and shot

Just in case the poison doesn’t work...

[HighSierra5]

I didn’t know either. I do now. Still don’t give a hoot.

[luv2ski]

I know a lot of baseball players are from the DR but why they go back there is a mystery to me. They can afford to bring their families to the US- they don’t need to go visit them or friends. In the DR, they are lightning rods b/c everyone knows who they are and how wealthy they are. Just stupid to go in my opinion.

[fungoking]

He was fairly average with the Twins. He had a very unusual late career increase in offensive production. As if he found some magic potion that improved athletic performance.