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The next captain of the Red Sox

May 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia

This is the best quote I’ve heard in a while (from future Sox captain Dustin Pedroia about David Ortiz): “David’s fine. He’s one of our teammates. We believe in him. He’s going to come out of it. He’s had 60 at-bats. A couple of years ago I had 60 at-bats and it was me hitting [...]

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Papi don’t preach

August 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Big Papi, David Ortiz, Steroids

In a washed-out-white press room in Yankee Stadium (Yes!), David Ortiz faced the media yesterday to say, well, not very much. Not because he was holding back, but because he simply doesn’t know. But he did deny ever (at least knowingly) taking steroids. Nonetheless: “I definitely was a little bit careless back in those days [...]

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Good signs in Ft. Myers

March 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Big Papi, David Ortiz, Mike Lowell

I watched the Sox play the Yankees last night, although it’s a struggle to watch baseball in standard definition after you’ve been spoiled by HD. Apart from this meaningless win over the pinstripes, there were two good signs: Mike Lowell went 2 for 2 at the plate, with a solo homer and a single. Big [...]

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Report From The Fort (Day 2)

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · David Ortiz, Jason Varitek, Mike Lowell, Red Sox, Spring Training

…Well it’s technically Day 3, but since I’m finally back on a decent wifi connection I’m going to upload today’s Red Sox update first (I’ve done so much live tweeting the last few days I have to stop myself from typing “Red Sox” as “#redsox”…check out @Mueller11 on Twitter for those updates and a preview [...]

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Big Papi speaks

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Big Papi, David Ortiz

The sound on this is awful, but it’s good to see Papi.

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