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i got a couple of questions for you i'm
hoping that's a gift
when a man rushes out onto a tv show
with a bat it's usually a frightening
experience look at that that's beautiful
yep is this the back the same weight and
gauge that that you use definitely
because i find it quite heavy i'm used
to uh
i'm used to a nerf bat that is fantastic
there you go i got one more person by
the way oh wow look at this check this
out we got uh
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thank you so much
can we just take a look at what is on
your back here stand up that's the
jacket you want you to bring next time
i'm a scorpio
so much to talk about first of all i
grew up in in boston my whole family
still lives there so lifelong red sox
fans
you and your teammates have changed my
life my family's life so eternal
gratitude for that thank you so much for
everything you've done
for everybody i ever knew and ever will
know in boston uh let's talk about a few
things your nickname big poppy i love
the nickname how did it come about
well you know everybody i'm bad with
them i mean that's names yeah i can't
remember nobody's name do you know who i
am right now no
anyway guy yes
so you know i pretty much i used to call
everybody
poppy like poppy yeah hey poppy hey
there poppy how are you poppy nice job
poppy right there there you go right
that's what big pipe would be coming
from so you that became big poppy now
you are i was just talking to jerry
seinfeld about uh living in new york and
he's such a quintessential new yorker
and everybody knows and loves him what
is it like right now to be david ortiz
living in boston walking around in
boston what is that like you're like
santa at the north pole i mean
what's it what's it like
it's it's all good i mean people always
uh want to get all of you and and they
want to come and talk to you asking for
autographs and things like that but but
they must go crazy they must all jump on
you must be walking around with 90
people literally hanging off of you at
all times kissing and hugging you uh
kind of kind of bad
i understand that you
uh answered your own door at halloween
on halloween you answered your own door
now people i guess found out where you
live that must have been madness well i
used to be all the fans in front of my
house you're not allowed to in the
neighborhood but they they allow me
because i have like 250 kids 250 kids
that's right
and so you just invite them in
no
that sounded like a really sweet story
for a minute kids just come and they
knock on my door you let them in no
i released the dogs yeah
my wife started she started that up your
wife started yeah last year
i was in the backyard you know doing
some grilling with my boys
and it was just grilling barbecuing
yeah
and uh
it was halloween so enough you're
supposed to give the candy away in the
front door you don't give away grilled
meats on halloween
it's a sausage ah yeah
so one of the neighbor he came to the
house with two of his kids and and she
was like oh uh
we expect him to see big papi oh he's in
the bag just go ahead just go and say hi
to him next thing i know i have people
dropping kids in front of my house
they're dropping from helicopters
everywhere
here we come big papi
uh
now uh let's talk about your you're such
a phenomenal hitter and and part of your
technique is you try and psych out
the picture as much as you can by the
things that you do as you get up to the
plate can we talk about that for a
minute what are the things you do to try
and put the fear of god into that
picture
let my beard grow
the beard again the beard looks devilish
yeah the main look right mean look i
can't do that you can do it very well
yeah mine would be like this hi how are
you i'll do my best
that wouldn't do so well
you might get one of these
yeah yeah didn't throw me in the back
yeah they drilled me in the ass 95 mile
an hour
fastball yeah
but um so the fierce look what about
that you like that tone and then well
this just like concentration like here i
come
take some of this yeah you know
this is what i got for you now right
right i love uh
with uh dicekay matsuzaki you have this
great uh what is it when when you go you
go bam no no just three bam bam and then
you bow yeah it's really nice when you
guys do it spontaneously it looks so
crisp and rehearsed
you want to jazz it up next year i got a
few moves for you
you don't understand
you go let's try right now you just go
bam fam fam bow and then damn dog
right there
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uh you are very uh you're very playful
with the media you have a good time with
the media i think it's part of the
success of the red sox is you guys don't
seem to take things too seriously the
media in boston the sports media they're
very intense you like to end the
sessions by giving them advice before
they go out the door is that true
i do yeah
because everyone else is trying to get
away from the media you talk to them and
then you give them advice what kind of
advice do you give to the reporters go
home and uh
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the roman get some ass that's nice
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look if you're not going to pay
attention i'm not telling you again
i have to ask you uh
you you guys famously broke the curse in
0-4 now you've done uh you've won uh
this year in house seven
which one felt better is there one world
series win that that meant more to you
that felt better i think the first one
was like
that's it like this is to say we were
expecting this for 86 years and
finally
we got them and even when you we had the
parade people were looking at us like
i know for myself and my family we still
weeks afterwards thought did that really
happen
or did i drink some weird cider you know
and and everybody's face was like that
like this is happening now people was
more like kind of into it like okay
we're kind of getting used to it people
could relax more into the celebration oh
yeah uh now the other question i have to
ask is a lot of speculation everybody in
boston and i am speaking for myself as
well everybody's desperate to have mike
lowell re-signed do you think that's
going to happen do you think they're
going to sign him hopefully i think that
would be one of the best move
this offseason signing mikey low i don't
think
that we wouldn't make it without him
right okay well get that done talk to
someone or i will theo do it
do it
um that's pretty much i want to thank
you so much for all the gifts i want to
thank you for everything you've done
this was huge for me that you would come
on the show oh thank you yeah wow what
was that
that wasn't even a mic that's how strong
you are
thank you bam
uh
thank you uh so much and uh continued
success to you thank you so much david
ortiz we'll be right back sandre lurkey
stick around