Big Papi breaks Jimmie Foxx's Big Record
I have been down on Big Papi lately. Not because he is not hitting the ball, but because he opened his mouth. He made some comments about the MVP balloting (and there is certainly an argument to be made for Ortiz for MVP); but, I wish he would just keep his mouth shut. He is paid to hit a small, horsehide-covered sphereoid, not comment on the MVP, the War in Iraq, or the falling price of oil. And regardless of his comments, he is still the most popular man in the Commonwealth. Hell, if he weren't from the DR, people in Red Sox Nation might just make him the governor.

Ortiz broke an ancient record. He becomes only the second Red Sox player to hit fifty taters in a single season. What do you know, a record held by a pair of Sox.

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060921&content_id=1675295&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos

Congratulations to David Ortiz, a man who puts people in the seats at Fenway even though the Red Sox are in their September Swoon. (The new slogan of the Sox: "Only another 84 years to the next World Championship.")

Pisser.