TWO MORE YEARS! TWO MORE YEARS!

Red Sox ownership votes to give David Ortiz a contract offer that they would not give him one year ago. Why?

Dirty Diapers

"A manager is not something you can go and change like you change your underwear. It can happen at some point but the possibility of it having especially in the middle of the season is a small percent, so that’s not our case."-David Ortiz on the media storm surrounding Bobby Valentine and the Red Sox.

Ortiz Hits Reverse

7 days after telling an ESPN reporter that he would consider playing for the Yankees in 2012 David Ortiz starts to backpedal like a professional.

I never said I would sign with the Yankees. No, no, no. They asked me if I would play with the Yankees. I said I would think about it. I didn’t say I would go to the Yankees. I’m still with the Red Sox, aren’t I?--David Ortiz 10/20/11’’

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Every RBI Counts

David Ortiz get's "pissed"over an official scorer's call.

Is there a new captain of clutch?

Several years ago Red Sox brass anointed David Ortiz as the greatest clutch hitter in Red Sox history. From that year forward Mr Ortiz quickly became very unclutch. Can you remember the last time big Papi hit a walkoff hit? I can't. Can you remember the last time Carl Crawford hit a game winning hit? Sure can. May 9th, and May 1st come to mind. David Ortiz earned his title with a fairly large set of data and very little can be derived from Crawford's 35 game data set but I will tell you this much at the end of the game I would rather see Crawford at the plate than Ortiz.

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Big Hug

BIG HAPPY

On the night MLB decided to honor the men and women of our military for successfully tracking down and killing Osama bin Laden ,David Ortiz hits his first homer in a month and then celebrates by hugging a lucky soldier in the stands.

YOU HAVN"T BEEN MISSING MUCH

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Ortiz is on the List

Thursday July 30 2009 the New York Times reports the David Ortiz was in fact on the list of players that tested positive for performance enhancement drugs in 2003

"I tell you, I don't know too much about steroids, but I started listening about steroids when they started to bring that [expletive] up, and I started realizing and getting to know a little bit about it. You've got to be careful. I used to buy a protein shake in my country. I don't do that anymore because they don't have the approval for that here, so I know that, so I'm off buying things at the GNC back in the Dominican Republic."-- Ortiz on steroids in 07


Fast forward to today.

"I'm not talking about that anymore, I have no comment."-- Ortiz on steroids 07/30/09

Ortiz Finally Goes Yard!!!!!

Oh... that Ortiz

Astros pitcher, yes pitcher, Russ Ortiz hits his first homer of the season.

Ortiz on Manny

This news has shocked me, because I remember when Manny was here, the trainer would give him Tylenol because he was sore or something and he would throw it in the garbage. He wouldn't take it. This news here, he needs to speak out and let people know what's up, so people understand. It's hard, man. You can't even reach out to Manny when Manny was here. You think I'm kidding, but I'm serious. Who knows? Manny's on his own always. There have been times when we were here playing together. I've been like, OK, let's meet at the lobby by noon so we can go and have lunch and go to the field. OK. Next thing you know you would be calling to his phone and calling to his room and you wouldn't reach him. And you just talked to him like an hour ago. That was him." --David Ortiz 5/12/09

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How Do You Get To Work?

Big Papi David Ortiz rolls into his spring training office in a Ferrari F430 Spider. The price of the ride? Oh, $200,000+, but please note the matching shirt and bag that is thrown in with the car. Papi's ride is a far cry from Justin Masterson's ride.

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Papi Non Factor

Ortiz went 8 for 43 in October and short of 1 homer was a non-factor in the playoffs. In the last game of the season Papi was surrounded in the line up by Pedoria and Youkilis. Manny could have sat out for the August and September but once the playoffs started the Sox would have benefited from his bat in the line up even if he left it on his shoulder.

Big Papi and Anderson Cooper

Papi talks about becoming an U.S. citizen.

Welcome to America

It’s a great country. I’m proud to be here...to be part of the American family."-- David Ortiz 6/10/08

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Happy Days

PAPI DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
Slower bat speed? Bad knee? Over the hill?

What a difference a weekend makes. All the negative David Ortiz talk is gone as Papi went 5-12 over the weekend with 8 RBI (he has 12 for the season).

Ortiz Slump Broken

Holy shit, I better talk to my witches then, I'll have to call my people in New York to take care of it when everybody's sleeping. Got to give them a more specific location [to hide it]."--David Ortiz on his jersey being excavated from the foundation of the new Yankee Stadium

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Happi Pappi

Happi Pappi

David Ortiz is helped by a Japanese hotel staffer to put on a "happi" coat during a welcome party of the MLB opening game in Tokyo Friday, March 21, 2008.

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Batman is Robin!

BATMAN IS ROBIN

David Ortiz rides in a police motorcycle sidecar when leaving the White House Wednesday 27, 2008.

Big Surgery?

ORTIZ AS ADVERTISED?

Shortly after the World Series David "Big Papi" Ortiz had surgery on his right knee to repair damaged cartilage. In November Ortiz said

I think I will be training and running at full speed by January."

Now on Tuesday February 19 Ortiz says this:

I feel good, getting almost 100 percent."-- David Ortiz 2/19/08

What do I do with the thing again?

Big Papi, David Ortiz, prepares on Tuesday for playing first base in Colorado on Saturday.