Big Papi is going to retire???

[El Supremo]

With his walk-off double, Ortiz joins Barry Bonds and Hank Aaron as just the third player in Major League Baseball history with 600 doubles and 500 home runs in his career.

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/49138/david-ortiz-carries-red-sox-back-in-typical-big-papi-fashion

He's hitting .320 with 10 Home Runs!

[joeybee12]

1. He's going out on a VERY high note!

[hughee99]

2. I don't know how you can do the year long goodbye and then not retire.

They'll be rumors about how he may continue, but I think he's all done at the end of the season.

[trumad]

3. Ortiz and Bonds

Quite the pair

[hughee99]

4. They should have tried to be more like former Marlin Garry Sheffield...

or CURRENT Marlin Dee Gordon.

Getting a lot of mileage from that glass house aren't you. I think your pony needs to learn another trick, though.

[trumad]

5. Cboy and Upton... Always sticking up for cheaters.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4366335

[hughee99]

6. Sticking up for cheaters? No. I'm just not as selective about my outrage.

I don't have an issue with cheating only when it comes to certain teams.

I get it, you're in a town surrounded by some pretty mediocre teams and feel compelled to take it out on someone else. Even when the sort of thing that you pretend to be upset about is something that's common league wide.

I feel bad for you that your hatred consumes you to the point where you'll have to twist your own ethics to the extent that you'll say you "love" a murder because it provides you the opportunity to "get your hate on".

I'll also point out that you have yet to comment on Dee Gordon, so your interest in cheating only seems important to you when it doesn't hit close to home.

In the end, I would say I'm tired of making you look like a fool and hypocrite on these sorts of postings, but in reality, It's not me that's making you look bad. You're doing all the heavy lifting.

I look forward to reading your "What about (insert Red Sox or Patriots player here)" whenever any discussion about ethics, integrity or character in sports comes up, as an attempt to shift the focus from whatever happened recently to some other incident from Boston sports. I'm sure the next time a Miami player gets bagged for steroids, beating his girlfriend, or even Suh's on the field shenanigans (remember the kind you used to be very vocal about when he played for Detroit), you'll be right there with a "What about Hernandez, or deflategate, or spygate, or Ortiz" doing your very best to try to avoid any discussion about the original subject of the post. Keep up the good work, "homers" everywhere appreciate you fighting the good fight.

[madinmaryland]

7. Hmmm. Two of those have a YUUUUUGE asterisk next to their name. And it's not Hammerin' Hank!

BTW, are you going to add a Roid Sox logo to your flip-floppiing avatar??

[Iggo]

8. Big Fat Cheater, you mean.

[mythology]

9. And just like Barry Bonds, he's a cheating piece of trash.