CBS - Over the winter Red Sox DH David Ortiz announced the 2016 season will be his last as a player. He's going to retire following the season after 20 productive years in the big leagues, including 14 in Boston.
Although Ortiz has said he doesn't want a farewell tour a la Chipper Jones, Paul Konerko, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, he may end up getting one anyway. I'm sure teams around the league will give him gifts and whatnot as he comes through town for the last time.
Ortiz will make his final regular-season trip to Yankee Stadium from Sept. 27-29, in the second to last series of the year. He told Kevin Kernan of the New York Post he hopes fans in the Bronx will give him a standing ovation.
“You know what I want most of all?'' Big Papi told The Post on Tuesday at JetBlue Park. “I would love it if the fans at Yankee Stadium gave me a standing ovation.''
To be fair, Red Sox fans gave Jeter and Rivera standing ovations during their last visits to Fenway Park a few years ago. It's only fair for Yankee fans to reciprocate with Ortiz, right?
Of course, Big Papi has tortured the Yankees over the years. He's a career .306/.395/.565 hitter with 47 home runs in 224 games against New York. That includes a .237/.339/.480 line with 12 homers in 52 games at the current incarnation of Yankee Stadium.
I'm sure the Yankees will do something to honor Ortiz in September after the Red Sox honored Jeter and Rivera. Will the fans give him a standing ovation? My guess is they will do so begrudgingly.
How lame is Big Papi? I touched on this last month when Hal said the Yankees may honor Ortiz in some capacity this year. Any alleged Yankee fan that would get up out of their seat and applaud David Ortiz is such a fake loser and a tremendous pussy I can't even wrap my brain around it. Even if this happened organically I'd fucking puke all over myself. But now this asshole is going to come into Yankee Stadium for his last game all entitled, expecting a fucking standing ovation. GTFO.
I guess there are actually people out there who think the Yankees and their fans are going to go through with this. What fucking planet are you living on? When do you think this ovation is going to come? After you pimp another home run off Brandon Pinder in a 9-0 game you think you're going to get a fucking curtain call? Maybe it'll come after they unveil your plaque out in monument park commemorating the day you threw a hissy fit at Yankee Stadium when you got outed as a steroid cheat. Even if you did get honored you'd probably be too busy back at the clubhouse calling the official scorer to bitch about an error you want changed to a hit. And give me a break with the Jeter/Mariano comparisons. Guess what? Those are all-time good guys. You're not a good guy. Good guys get honored. Assholes don't. Pretty simple stuff.
The Yankees and their fans take a lot of shit about how the new stadium has no juice and it's not a real ballpark and there aren't any reals fans there and blah blah blah. Here's how you fix it - boo the absolute shit out of this guy at his last game. Send him off into retirement with his tail between his legs. That's how you revamp the rivalry. That's how you bring back some of that coldblooded energy that used to permeate the old stadium. And don't tell me that wouldn't bother him. He just said the admiration of Yankee fans is important to him. The guy is so out of touch with reality because he's been teflon his entire career that he actually thinks Yankee fans owe him something. It'd be nice to let him know once and for all that he may have gotten a free pass with the rest of the world but he doesn't have one in the Bronx.
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