2022 HOF Candidates: Ortiz and Papelbon First Time on Ballot
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Quoting so it can be shown a second time. I'm going to be rewatching WS highlights all night.
Elated for David and RSN. So much so that I just booked two nights in a caboose 20 miles from the HOF to see the ceremony!
Man that was awesome. I’ll never forget that day. Brady pulled off an insane comeback against New Orleans then to this. We are so fucking lucky.
Among the reasons I love this place: I was out, and then just now remembered that the HoF announcement was today. I was about to go to ESPN to check to see if Papi made it, but came here instead and found this. This was better! (Thanks, Nip!)
I hope we all take a moment to realize how special it's been to be fans of this team. Especially these past twenty or so seasons. Those of us born before The Impossible Dream remember a few good teams sprinkled in with a lot of not so good teams. Faith rewarded, yes?
This made my off-season. From now and for all-time, he will be known as First Ballot Hall of Famer David Ortiz. Thank God Pedro and Manny talked Theo into signing Big Papi and providing a safety net in case Jeremy Giambi didn't pan out.
Awesome, awesome, awesome news!!!
Awesome, awesome, awesome news!!!
Joke's on him ... he leaves for another job in a month, and I've been named to replace him
I am not the biggest fan of DoB as a TV guy, but I thought he was pretty good on the radio. This right here is the best call of his career.
Judging by the amount of "work" he does, it will make a difference. I'll have more time
now ... back to PAPI!!!!
I was at this Red Sox game. I left for the park before the Pats game ended and figured they had lost for sure. Right before the Ortiz HR I was feeling pretty down thinking the Pats lost and the Sox were about to as well (I was also in the house for the game 1 loss). On my way home after the game I heard Zolack's call of the Brady to Kembrell TD and I must have laughed for 5 straight minutes. What a day that was.
Maybe he's getting back at you for razzing him about his cheating team? No? Then he's merely an idiot. (And not the good kind.)
You should have tapped that message to him in morse code on a trash can
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The video of minor leaguer David Arias beating ARod and Griffey in a HR contest was incredible.
Genuinely liking a Boston player has always been basically impossible for me for obvious reasons but it was hard not to love (and fear) Ortiz, who seemed to get better the bigger the moment was. Big congrats to him and all of you.
This painting from a dear friend greets me every time I walk into the house from the garage.
What Ortiz means to all is is immeasurable. So many moments. I was lucky to witness his 500th HR in Baltimore - I cried. I cried tonight.
Congrats, Papi!
What Ortiz means to all is is immeasurable. So many moments. I was lucky to witness his 500th HR in Baltimore - I cried. I cried tonight.
Congrats, Papi!
Watching Verducci and Costas talk about Schilling kind of drives home how rotten it is for Red Sox fans (or at least for this Red Sox fan) that Curt turned out to be such an ass.
It is a sad situation. I find it more bothersome what Curt represents than what Pete Rose represents. Pete Rose had (has?) an addiction. Curt is an ignorant and dangerous truth denier.
Me too. Before the game we went to Tasty Burger and Bob Ryan (from the Globe) and a friend sat at the table next to us. The Pats game was on and of course everyone was watching it. I can't really recall what Bob was saying. He was more into telling his friend about his favorite burger. I love Ryan and I didn't want to bother him, but we shared some comments about the Pats as the game got tighter. We left to get into Fenway before the Pats were done, but surprisingly, to me, the Pats were on every TV in the ballpark. The end of that game was the highlight of the day until about 3 hours later. Maybe not everyone remembers, but the game was terrible until David lit it up. Scherzer was electric, Buchholz's arm was hanging on by a thread, and it seemed a quick exit was imminent. I can't really say it was the best game I've seen, but the end was as joyous as could be. Thanks Dave.... (and Gomes...)
The last HoF ceremony I attended was Pedro's year. My oldest - 7 now - was only a handful of months old, but I needed him to see Pedro get inducted.
He won't remember it, of course. But he'll still be able to tell his grandkids that he saw one of the greatest pitchers of all time make his HoF induction ceremony. He can tell them how his father - all 6'3 of him - held him in his outstretched arms over the crowd just so he could get a glimpse of greatness driving by. And maybe greatness could see him, too. (He didn't. He looked the other way nearly the whole time he drove past. John Smoltz' wife, however, slapped Smoltz on the shoulder and pointed at my infant son held aloft in the sky, both sharing a laugh at one of the many spectacles of the evening...but Smoltz Pedro ain't.)
Pedro was the best pitcher I'll ever see. But David Ortiz is the most important player of my baseball Fandom. Despite my hunting cabin being only 25 minutes from Cooperstown, I just haven't found the motivation to fight the crowds. The Pedro ceremony was outside in an unforgiving heat. The lines for water were obscene.
Despite bringing a cooler full of beers, I stayed reserved for the majority of the event. With one exception. During a lull in Pedro's speech, I couldn't help myself. I don't know why I blurted it out, but "Screw Shaughnessy!" May have hurled itself out of my mouth at a loud volume.
I think I'll be making a trip to Cooperstown this summer.
He won't remember it, of course. But he'll still be able to tell his grandkids that he saw one of the greatest pitchers of all time make his HoF induction ceremony. He can tell them how his father - all 6'3 of him - held him in his outstretched arms over the crowd just so he could get a glimpse of greatness driving by. And maybe greatness could see him, too. (He didn't. He looked the other way nearly the whole time he drove past. John Smoltz' wife, however, slapped Smoltz on the shoulder and pointed at my infant son held aloft in the sky, both sharing a laugh at one of the many spectacles of the evening...but Smoltz Pedro ain't.)
Pedro was the best pitcher I'll ever see. But David Ortiz is the most important player of my baseball Fandom. Despite my hunting cabin being only 25 minutes from Cooperstown, I just haven't found the motivation to fight the crowds. The Pedro ceremony was outside in an unforgiving heat. The lines for water were obscene.
Despite bringing a cooler full of beers, I stayed reserved for the majority of the event. With one exception. During a lull in Pedro's speech, I couldn't help myself. I don't know why I blurted it out, but "Screw Shaughnessy!" May have hurled itself out of my mouth at a loud volume.
I think I'll be making a trip to Cooperstown this summer.
This now makes five players who played in Game 5 of the 2004 ALCS that have been elected to the HOF.
Remembering some of the awful takes circa 2009. I’m sure I had my share.
We were insanely lucky to have the first half of his Red Sox career and just as lucky to have the second half of it, sandwiched around a single down year that was merely average instead of godly.
So happy tonight.
We were insanely lucky to have the first half of his Red Sox career and just as lucky to have the second half of it, sandwiched around a single down year that was merely average instead of godly.
So happy tonight.
The Globe has a really nice interactive piece on all of Ortiz’s home runs during his Career
View: https://twitter.com/alexspeier/status/1486132910654697473
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/sports/2022/01/david-ortiz-career-home-runs/
View: https://twitter.com/alexspeier/status/1486132910654697473
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/sports/2022/01/david-ortiz-career-home-runs/
I mean, the guy killed the Yankees. For my entire childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood out here on the front lines of baseball's holy war, all I heard was Ruth, all their wins, and all our losses. They were up here, we were down there. 34 ended that. He fucking stopped it cold. Mystique, aura: gone. Now we win. Thank you Papi.
YOU'RE GODDAMNED RIGHT YOU DID.
I’m not sure if others will remember, but there was a time circa 2009 (I think) when Ortiz was struggling. His first half of the year was abysmal even by average DH standards. I remember him facing AJ Burnett and smoking a fastball on the inside corner and saying out loud, “I honestly didn’t think he was capable of turning on that pitch anymore.” He proved me wrong, then continued to prove me wrong for another 7 seasons.
