Why do baseball fans like David Ortiz?

[Remote]

how backwards is this country that they were spending time and money trying to put athletes in jail over juicing?

In the future steroids and other PEDs will likely be accepted.

Might take 100 years but eventually they'll figure out how to make it safer and beneficial to speed up recovery and regenerate muscles/tissue/whatever.

It'll start with helping the elderly and it'll trickle on down.

You can never put the genie back in the bottle.

 

[Taadow]

I dunno is baseball fans "like" Papi per se...


...but he's a curse breaker, chicks dig the longball, and he brought balance against the Yankees.

 

[Taadow]

But let's bring this back full circle.
The real main reason (aside from this PED hypocrisy) David Ortiz shouldn't be an automatic HOFer is because he was half a player.

You're not wrong, but he's going in first ballot.

 

[Remote]

You're not wrong, but he's going in first ballot.

I understand that.

But if we are going to suddenly get over our hesitation to elect designated hitters, there's another guy who deserves some attention first...

 

[ExodusNirvana]

In the future steroids and other PEDs will likely be accepted.

Might take 100 years but eventually they'll figure out how to make it safer and beneficial to speed up recovery and regenerate muscles/tissue/whatever.

It'll start with helping the elderly and it'll trickle on down.

You can never put the genie back in the bottle.

Then they won't be PEDs or steroids they'll just be supplements...

Also you're assuming the public will respect people that needed to take something in order to better than the average man, which is why athletes are respected NOW because the perception is that through hard work and dedication, you can excel in something regardless of your circumstances.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Sure, he had a few amazing clutch hits, but let's look at the bigger picture:

-he's fat and slow
-he cheated and lied about it but had the nerve to cast aspersions on much superior Dominican baseball players (a la A-God)
-he takes way too long between pitches to adjust his gloves and spit in them and so forth

He literally represents all the worst aspects of baseball as one player.

And this is the kind of dude yall celebrate while people are making valid points about why your sport is, at best, stagnating in growth and at worst eroding away.

Breh, I think you'd get better results going to a Baseball forum and posting this ? cats on here don't like baseball

But to answer your question, I don't like David Ortiz, at all. They sweep him being a slap singles hitter at Minnesota, then turning into a HR/Double machine with Boston under the rug.

 

[King Poetic]

1.. because he plays in Boston and since the bigger sports media and reporters is majority east coast and story of Boston winning the title and he seems likeable he will get love

And for the hall of fame he better not even go in before Manny Ramirez

 

[tremonthustler1]

1.. because he plays in Boston and since the bigger sports media and reporters is majority east coast and story of Boston winning the title and he seems likeable he will get love

And for the hall of fame he better not even go in before Manny Ramirez

Manny will never see the hall for reasons I stated. It's a shame because he was World Series MVP. Him and Pedro were Teflon in that city

And when he got busted the first time it wasn't a PED he took. It just happened to have a banned substance. After that, he got busted yet again

 

[Remote]

Then they won't be PEDs or steroids they'll just be supplements...

Also you're assuming the public will respect people that needed to take something in order to better than the average man, which is why athletes are respected NOW because the perception is that through hard work and dedication, you can excel in something regardless of your circumstances.

I think if Whey protein powder and creatine were available in the 1930s they would have considered that "PEDs" ... which is silly.

We also have to understand that "PEDs" are a vague thing today.

If you take the wrong energy drink you could get banned and the only thing the public hears when someone says PEDs = steroids.

Let me tell you something just as 1 example: ephedra may be dangerous if abused. But it never helped anyone hit a curveball.

I mean look at this list of PEDs:

List of banned substances in baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who the fukk is taking LSD to win baseball games? Except Dock Ellis (RIP)

 

[Taadow]

I understand that.

But if we are going to suddenly get over our hesitation to elect designated hitters, there's another guy who deserves some attention first...

Nope. Here's why...

- he was an average hitter, not a slugger. That's not a good look as a DH.
- he prolly took PEDs, since he had that sudden spike in HRs.
- Seattle.

 

[Taadow]

Breh, I think you'd get better results going to a Baseball forum and posting this ? cats on here don't like baseball

But to answer your question, I don't like David Ortiz, at all. They sweep him being a slap singles hitter at Minnesota, then turning into a HR/Double machine with Boston under the rug.

Did you read the article about him in ESPN Magazine recently?

 

[Remote]

Nope. Here's why...

- he was an average hitter, not a slugger. That's not a good look as a DH.
- he prolly took PEDs, since he had that sudden spike in HRs.
- Seattle.

Average hitter?
He OPSed over .900 for his career

 

[Taadow]

Average hitter?
He OPSed over .900 for his career

Calm down.
"Average hitter" as in his motivation was the hit for high average instead of power.

 

[Remote]

Calm down.
"Average hitter" as in his motivation was the hit for high average instead of power.

You think power just = home runs.

How many players ops .933 over 18 years?
How many players slug over .500 for 18 years?

You know what David Ortiz's career OPS is? .929
Lower than Edgar's.

By almost any measure except homers, Edgar was a better hitter.
And he didn't have the benefit of bouncing shyt off the green monster.

 

[Miggs]

The average cac baseball fan loves him cuz of his nickname,cuz he smiles all the time and has a beard with no mustache making him appear all friendly and shyt like some dominican friendly giant...