David Ortiz on the mend: shooting and recovery
- Thread starter Ed Hillel
- Start date
Maybe it was a Voodoo priest he crossed, and it will be more like Weekend at Papi's 2.
Ah, should have scrolled up to his actual post. The origin of the grill is still in question though...
Sounds like spirits are high, all things considered. That post is everything I was hoping to hear from him, the absence of which was making me worry.
Great news and sounds like he's right on track. The lack of personal photos of him obviously indicates that he has some physical recovery to do and may look a bit sickly. He probably lost a ton of weight as well which would alarm the public. Just no reason to do that knowing that he's doing well.
When I saw that steak, I hoped he was barbequing it and more for the family. But, one step at a time. Welcome home Papi.
Ian Browne has snippets of a statement from Ortiz that he relased through a PR firm
https://twitter.com/IanMBrowne/status/1155890179808342016
“I am feeling good, but know I need to do my rehab just like I did when I was recovering from injuries playing baseball," Ortiz also said.
https://twitter.com/IanMBrowne/status/1155889613128572929
"Big Papi will be back soon," David Ortiz wants all his fans to know, as part of an extended statement he just released through a PR firm.
https://twitter.com/IanMBrowne/status/1155890179808342016
“I am feeling good, but know I need to do my rehab just like I did when I was recovering from injuries playing baseball," Ortiz also said.
https://twitter.com/IanMBrowne/status/1155889613128572929
"Big Papi will be back soon," David Ortiz wants all his fans to know, as part of an extended statement he just released through a PR firm.
That's a good point, he should have just kept playing baseball. He'd have another ring and probably even less rehab.
I hesitate to include this in this thread as there is no indication that Ortiz was/is anyway involved, and I am not trying to imply that is the case, but both stories appear to involve the drug lord "Cesar the Abuser". First Papi getting shot after possibly being involved with Cesar's girlfriend and now two other notable major leaguers implicated in drug trafficking in support of Cesar. There is sure some serious stuff going on in the Dominican Republic
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ex-mlb-players-octavio-dotel-luis-castillo-implicated-in-dominican-drug-trafficking-money-laundering-scheme/
** Dopes - If there is a more appropriate location for this please move it **
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ex-mlb-players-octavio-dotel-luis-castillo-implicated-in-dominican-drug-trafficking-money-laundering-scheme/
** Dopes - If there is a more appropriate location for this please move it **
Last edited:
One of Chris Berman's better sports figure nicknames "Don't Ask Dotel".
Very heavy duty stuff for Dotel and Castillo, if true. $40 million and $56 million in baseball earnings, respectively, just didn't last I guess.
I rarely click this thread anymore as I believe the story, other than his health status, has run its course. I don't care what he was doing with Cesar's girlfriend and it's none of my business, anyway. I hope he has a full recovery and gets back to enjoying his retirement.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mMUJXgcJB/?igshid=1qgtqh4vx7b6a
The big man dropping his daughter off at college. All is right in the world.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mMUJXgcJB/?igshid=1qgtqh4vx7b6a
The big man dropping his daughter off at college. All is right in the world.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mMUJXgcJB/?igshid=1qgtqh4vx7b6a
Here we go. Ortiz hires ex-Commissioner Ed Davis to find out what really happened.
Ortiz gets a private investigation
Ortiz gets a private investigation
Is this guy really going to be able to figure out something that happened in another sovereign country?
Maybe he can also solve the mystery of why Ortiz was on that list of players who may have tested positive for a banned substance from that report that came out during the Mitchell investigation since Ortiz never got a straight answer there other than being told to go pound sand.
There are plenty of PI firms that have international offices and/or connections. It's reasonable to assume Davis' firm has those connections in D.R. or they wouldn't have taken the case.
“Optimism”?
Like, what are the hopeful outcomes here, assuming they all include the fact that he already got shot?
Well, Manfred said that Ortiz being on that list did not necessarily mean he tested positive for steroids.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/qky9ew/mlb-commissioner-gives-david-ortiz-a-pass-on-failed-ped-test-from-2003
True but that's not exactly concrete either way. I realize there probably was only so much he could reveal since it was supposed to be anonymous but that's been hanging over Ortiz's head ever since it came out and there are still a lot of people who are convinced he doped and it may well cost him a first-ballot entry into Cooperstown (which is going to be an uphill battle as it is with him being primarily a DH his entire career, even with Molitor and Edgar getting in while serving in similar capacities for large portions of their careers). I was mostly being facetious, but if he's going to be using this guy and the guy has access to PIs, it seems like something he might be able to get more clarity on it if they can dig deep enough. But I've also seen a lot of movies and chances are it's been so long that it would be a dead end anyway.
Two Yankees visited Ortiz on Thursday.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/06/yankees-duo-visit-recovering-david-oritz/
https://nypost.com/2019/09/06/yankees-duo-visit-recovering-david-oritz/
Thanks for posting that Terry and I will, how do you put it, re2pect those two guys more now.
I’ll regard EE and Sanchez differently now while rooting for them to fail while playing ball.
My take is all the respect goes to Papi, a rare athlete and man respected by most everyone on both sides of the rivalry. I think it also says something about how Gary Sanchez is growing up, as an athlete and a man.
Ortiz threw out the first pitch at Fenway yesterday, for those who missed it:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV6kJVoIu2w
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV6kJVoIu2w
Papi has his first TV interview since the shooting, on Univision. Various secondhand articles translate and quote bits of it, but there's the original.
Good to see him starting to make the rounds. I'm finally feeling easier about his health going forward.
Good to see him starting to make the rounds. I'm finally feeling easier about his health going forward.
Papi will be in the Fox booth for the postseason, per SI:
https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/10/02/david-ortiz-fox-return-mlb-playoff-coverage
https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/10/02/david-ortiz-fox-return-mlb-playoff-coverage
so, a secondary infection in the area he got surgery in did in fact occur. And things were pretty grave for a while. I guess that matches what we surmised during his long absence.
But the best line from that article (which is worth a read) is definitely:
But the best line from that article (which is worth a read) is definitely:
2nd place:
Fucking badass as always.
This is a good a place for this David Ortiz video on his final year in 2016 from my new favorite YouTube channel Foolish Baseball
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3yW5W_JAdQ
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3yW5W_JAdQ
Suspected organizer of the shooting died after a car chase in the DR last week
https://nypost.com/2021/10/01/david-ortiz-shooting-suspect-luis-alfredo-rivas-clase-killed-in-dominican-republic/
https://nypost.com/2021/10/01/david-ortiz-shooting-suspect-luis-alfredo-rivas-clase-killed-in-dominican-republic/
I don't subscribe to the Globe, so I can't read the piece, but it seems this is a pretty significant development. The investigator concluded that Papi was targeted by the drug kingpin because he felt "disrespected" by Ortiz.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/19/sports/david-ortiz-2019-shooting-investigation/?s_campaign=bostonglobe:socialflow:twitter
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/19/sports/david-ortiz-2019-shooting-investigation/?s_campaign=bostonglobe:socialflow:twitter
It’s a hell of a piece. Everyone who shit all over Ed Davis as if he was being paid not to investigate owes him an apology.
Behind the pay wall for me. Can you, or anyone, provide a couple of the key pull quotes?
I don't subscribe to the Glob either, b/c I prefer to get local papers, but if you click on the url line until you see some horizontal lines in the right side of that line and then click on those, you can read the text, without photos, which I am about to do. In case you can read Mass Live, there's this. The gist is that this drug lord was jealous of Ortiz, who lived in the same building and was more attractive to women, etc. The main interest of the story, imo, lies in the description of the corruption of the Dominican government by criminal pay-offs. That led to Ortiz hiring the retired Boston cop to do his own investigation. I don't think that everything has been made clear by these revelations , however. It is very uncomfortable to me to see how legitimately frightened our hero is of this guy, even though he's incarcerated right now. He never calls the drug lord out by name and not surprisingly is accompanied by bodyguards everywhere he goes.
Last edited:
See @InsideTheParker post above. The level of utter and complete corruption, and fear of these guys, in the DR made a legitimate, good faith investigation and finding virtually impossible.