The passion of the Ortiz

Three David Ortiz quotes from the ESPN article teased on the front page yesterday as “Big Papi says struggles at plate eating him up” killed me: “My mind is spinning with all of this [stuff]. It’s hard to sleep. This is hard. I’ve never been through something like this.” “People keep writing and saying all this [stuff]. They say I can’t hit no more. That I’m done. What, I have one arm now? I’m not 45. “ “And when we lose, you know where the blame goes. It goes on me. But this guy [Bay], he’s got no fear. He might be the biggest reason I haven’t fallen apart.” Back in the late ’90s, the arrival of Pedro Martinez was exciting in that we...