Sorry to say, his career has ended…now, prove me wrong!

What a shame Henry ,Werner and Lucchino didn’t have the courage to say goodbye to Ortiz. Signing Him will hold the sox back for the next two years. The owners are more concerned with the attracting the casual fan and ratings. What they don’t really understand is winning will attract everyone..no matter who is on the field.

If Shaq told him everything everyone has told him,how’s that breaking news Alex?

It’s looking more each day like the Sox have a highly paid Designated Mascot on their hands. However, hindsight is easy, and I didn’t hear a lot of alternatives from fans last Fall as to a possible replacement for Ortiz. The Designated Hitter has become a dying breed in baseball, and the Sox made a last gasp effort to hold on to one of the best in the business. It was a high risk contract that looks at this time to have failed. But I hope that Sox fans will not spend the balance of 2013 rehashing the Ortiz contract.  

Big guys. . .carry more weight. . . so it takes longer. And you’re in more danger of career-ending injury. So. . . maybe take off some weight? Improve that lean-to-fat ratio? I’m just sayin.

Had the Sox not resigned Ortiz, perhaps they could have gone after a free agent that would have required draft pick compensation (Swisher, Hamilton …etc) as they would have received a pick if David signed somewhere else …. taking Ortiz’s money off the table and not signing Victorino, would have made it financially pretty easy to go after Hamilton at 5 / 125 …. of course, maybe he didn’t want to come to the Sox anyway.

That said, beyond Hamilton, there were virtually no true impact bats in this year’s FA class … and it looks like the Sox did not want to commit to anyone long term anyway

So…. the money that went to Papi, would likely NOT have been spent otherwise. Like Bob M said …lets stop worrying about the contract and just hope that Ortiz can play as many games healthy as possible this year. He’s part of Red Sox history and when healthy still a very, very good hitter. 

 Ortiz has a big frame….he’s actually weighed more in the past. He’s down 20-30lbs from where he was back in 08-09. Fat kids usually end up fat men, the ones who play sports & or work out can manage it when they’re adults but the strain & stress that it would require to take off another 15 lbs at his age (freakin boot-camp) isnt worth the risk of more injury. This is baseball, not soccer or basket. He doesn’t need to be an athletic specimen to help the sox win.

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Big Papi is a juicer.  His career is the paradigm of a juicer.  He was a marginal player(backup for Justin Giambi), and suddenly became a slugger.  He set a new HR record for the Red Sox duing the so-called “steoid era”, but hasn’t approached that number since.  People say “well that was the steroid era”.  That’s right and he took the steroids.

I think it’s fitting that he ends up stealing $26million from the Red Sox.  His whole career has been a case of grand theft.  Without steroids this guy would be washing cars or flipping burgers. What’s humorous is that the Red Sox, after limiting him to one year contracts when he was healthy give him a two year contract when he’s still in a boot and just that much older.

Pinch hit him in the ninth and replace him with a pinch runner. Guess Papi won’t be adding to his career stolen bases.

 I love Juice….specially pineapple. When i was a kid i hated it, but the last few years I really got into pineapple juice. Simmer down padlock face, the steroid era happened, so did your first bad marriage & the kid you didn’t want…life moves on for all the franchises, Rafael Palmeiro was one of the best hitters I’ve ever seen, now we got him herding sheep in Cuba. Most of my childhood heroes are now considered wastoids. I couldn’t care less.

Hamilton? You mean the guy who misses time every year with phantom injuries? And most importantly during big series I.e. against the angels in September with “thumb soreness” and is maybe the streakiest hitter in the history of the game?
The sox are not set up to win immediately, they are looking 2 years ahead, ortiz’ numbers in an injury plagued campaign last year were great. He can still hit, and is beloved in the city of Boston. Not a bad deal overall. I would take him at 2 years and 26 million over that redneck swisher who disappears in October or the careless attitude of Hamilton any day.

clearly you didnt read what i wrote very closely …. I totally agreee that the sox should have kept Ortiz …. was just throwing out what the other options would have been had they not. Frankly, I think the sox would have had to outbid the Angels for Hamilton. 

All that said…. I am NOT a fan of the 39 mil they gave Victorino … as for Swisher, sorry you don’t like people from Ohio

Swisher is from West Virginia. Not a fan of vitorino deal either.

A f ing over paid, prima donna, wimp like Big Plopi doesn’t even come close to the athlete a basketball player is. All Plopi has to do is bat 5 or 6 times a game and if he gets a hit waddle or limp, or crawl up the baseline. He never could run anyway so whats the big deal. You can’t compare Plopi and any basketball player. What a bunch of crap.