I am afraid this is the end of Big Papi’s career. Had the same thing happen to me and its not something you ever fully recover from.

Shut him down for 7 to 10 days?? Hasn’t he already been shut down for the past 8 months and apparently still has pain?

Heel Inflamation? Something tells me they don’t believe Ortiz. Something very weird going on with this mess.

It all makes sense now…Ortiz not only roided up but he is actually 47 yrs old…. wtf?

Dwight Evans had it for several years and played through it running down balls in right.Some people can play with pain Ortiz evidently will not.But then again he’s not Dwight Evans or Yaz who also had the problem.

Well i guess you could say that he did’nt do much in the off season. It only makes sense to me that when you start to work out the tissue it would cause discomfort,thats exactly the way Farrel tells it and it makes a lot of sense.The thing is will Ortiz DH with some discomfort.Thats how you tell how much heart the guy has.

Did you read the article about Evans talking to Ortiz? Dwight said he never completely recovered from his and this guy played a lot harder then Ortiz ever has.

Ortiz said this was Bobby V’s fault. Will be the highest paid interview guy after Crawfish in LA.
Victorino still w/o a hit and made an error in WBC.

Guess the new medical team did not get it right.

Love to see Vasqez catcher and bradley make the team. Nobody would run the the Sox.
Good news beat the Rays.

Baseball players are the biggest puss*ies

Yeah he got to rings how many do Evans or yaz have? If he can’t run he can’t run why have him playing at less then 50%

Ortiz has been wearing 4 inch spike heels or flip flops. That’s what causes heel injuries. Which is it?

So the heel issues are separate from the achilles injury.
That is good.Well given Papi’s recuperative powers then Opening Day 2015 sounds just about right.Did the medical staff not evaluate Ortiz prior to tendering him a contract?Are these people just plain nuts?

Ben made a blunder by not requiring games played in the contract.

Dwight Evans wasn’t a tub of goo..limited to running 90 feet at a time. Me thinks Ortiz is kaput. But will always be the man who got it done.

By the way, where are the comments from Cherington, Lucchino and company on this debacle of a situation? How will they spin the fact that they gave this whiner a 2 yr deal when he can’t even run around the bases because he has “heel inflamation.”  What a joke of a signing this was.

You can’t run a team when you are afraid to make tough decisions because you feel it would hurt ratings. Cherington and company should be hammered for this by the local media. I wouldn’t hold my breath on Rod Bradford doing that though.

 I agree with that one. ” My muscle hurts dont feel like going out there today”….

Hasn’t he ever heard of aspirin? I fear that a once-feared slugger has morphed into just a slug…

Agreed. Very weird! I think he’s scared to play in Yankee Stadium on April 1! Maybe this is an April Fools Day stunt?

This is what happens when you break down from roids. this guy has rested for 8 months and is still not ready, he is done pure and simple. The sox screwed up again, what a shock. This team is awful and he is the leader of the circus

Jeter breaks his ankle in October and had pins put in and he’s playing. Big Papi, More like Big Wussy.

Maybe Bobby V was right after all about “Big Papi”. Shutting it down because he has a “sore heal” after 8 months of sitting around doing nothing.
 
Ortiz and his ”drama”  are everything that is wrong with this franchise. The most frustrating thing is if he do decide he can “tough” it out and play at some point, and struggles he and his media buddies like Bradford have the built in excuse of “Oh, he played hurt and that is why his numbers are down.”

On a side note, John Farrell is reminding me to much of Lucchino. Much to rehearsed & fake while being very good at the “spin” the organization is so fond of. Lets not forget Farrell was a disaster in Toronto. Ask Omar Visquel about Mr. “polished” John Farrell.
 

Funny April fools day stunt…

Anyone heard of 100fenfay

Sorry 100fenway

John Lackey is a bum, he is 2-0 against nobodies and his ERA is over 8.
Just what we expect from this stiff. This guy will lose more games then
he wins

TOTAL MORONS IN THE FRONT OFFICE GIVING THIS STEROID USER A 2 YEAR DEAL. 

Time to retire you fat, juicer. Big Plopi, the Big Dissapointment. I forget his name but a few years ago a bball player on Lederman or Leno, over weight, got to game 15 min before the game,etc. I think he played 1st base on the phillies answer to the question how someone in his shape could hit so well. He answered “I’m a baseball player not an athlete” so true with Plopi. Can’t hit 5 or 6 times a game and stay healthy, useless waste of money and roster.

Yup, Big Pappi got his respect……….26 million $$$$$$$ worth……….and ownership will never get respect in return. For a guy who always talked about lack of respect he’s laughing all the way to the bank now. What’s the over under on the number of games he will actually play the next two seasons. How about his body size and use of PEDS. Ortiz may be breaking down right before our eyes.

shaq

This is a pre-excuse for why he won’t do well again in the Spring. Takes the pressure off Papi who can be press sensitive at times. Still love the guy.

Manny is available

Maybe Ortiz can hit and Pedro can have his midget run for him.

Maybe Ortiz can hit and Pedro can have his midget run for him.

makes sence, right? looks like that’s something alot of people around  here don’t have

The perfect storm for Big Papi.

You could fit 3 Deweys into Ortiz.

He’s not gonna play by opening day, the All-Star break or any other date.  Ortiz is a legend who will never be forgotten and 2004 would not have happened with him..never mind many other exciting games and wins.  But it’s ovah…Sox need to accept eating the 25M and move on.  Think everyone’s tired of hearing about this delay and that…it’ll be delayed until Sep 30 and beyond.

2004 would have never happened without Curtis Leskanic and Mark Bellhorn either…let it go

People get their legs broken and come back quicker than Ortiz. Case in point: Jeter, who got injured 3 months AFTER Ortiz, needed pins and screws surgically implanted…and he’s back playing. But Papi is still crying, “Oh my widdle heel.” Five to seven days? It’s just more of management’s LIES. It’s been 8 MONTHS and the guy still can’t jog from here to there without collapsing, Five to seven more days is just a lot of lip service for the fans. Step right up and buy those Fenway tickets folks, yessir. What a joke. Has NESN taken the Ortiz commercial off the air yet?

MRIs don’t lie, folks. Dude has inflamed heels. Hard to run on that. Do think taking a few pounds off would help. When you have weight-bearing joint problems, the more weight you carry, the tougher it is. He definitely needs and uses a good deal of his size–gets power from those big hips and muscles–but he wouldn’t lose that power if he took off 20 lbs or so to improve his lean-to-fat ratio while keeping up with his weightlifting and agaility work as he did so. Who knows–maybe he’s managing that stuff as well as he can in a rehab situation where he hasn’t been able to put weight on the joint for months. But trimming the weight I’ve got to carry is what I’d be trying to do if I were in his position.

Here we go again with more issues with this sorry sack of losers!  If they win more than 75 games; I’d be surprised.  Then we have our new closer who does not look very impressive in spring training; another question mark.   Ownership is trying to bring back Red Sox Nation by signing these over the hill players.  

HH  Medway   

I’m getting tired of all these Ortiz articles lets move on because he’s not going to add much to this season.This is going to cause Ortiz to lose a lot of fans.I’m for keeping the kid up and letting him play every day.Put Gomes at DH against lefty’s and who ever against righty’s.We may as well do it now and just get on.Ortiz will be hard to replace but it is what it is.

We have had enough distractions the last two years and the players are probably getting pissed as we speak.I wonder what Pedroia is thinking,if Ortiz had his heart we would’nt be hearing all this.Ortiz has been clutch for sure but that does’nt add up to heart,there is a difference.

 He’s out of shape. Look at his gut. If he lost a few pounds, his heels wouldn’t take such a beating. 

This team was spend thrift with everything else, yet they gave him a two year deal coming off a major injury. Completely baffling. Should have put him through one as well. But I guess the nedical staff would have looked like idiots since last year they said the injury was not serious..

Big Juicer can’t even play in the field when he’s healthy.  Don’t compare this phony cheater to Dewey Evans or Yaz.    I can’t believe they were stupid enough to give him a two year contract.  Deduct $26million from what they saved by dunping Crawford, Gonzalez, and Beckett.  This fat Juicer just beat them out of $26 million.  I thought Snake Lucchino was a lot smarter than that.

Sox management needs to treat this guy as gone for the season and move on – make a trade and get yourself another designated hitter.  Alternatively, make Napoli the DH and get another first baseman.  Those moves might produce a miracle heal with Ortiz.  Incredible that we are even at this point – the guy should never have been signed for the bucks he was signed for.