David Ortiz as we all know won the MVP
of the World Series X however
Colin Cowherd ESPN radio host and
personality
had some interesting comments I believe
that we are all allowed to be a little
suspicious when it comes to major league
baseball in
guys who appeared to be over the hump at
one point the column coward
may have taken it to another level for
sport those quotes very quickly here's
what he said
David Ortiz was shot two years ago is
now babe ruth I broke the same way twice
that's a like David were here good
totally missed that sorry yea made a
great comeback to that's a great story
and I'll
his sorry getting shot and I don't want
to get in the way of that great story
because it will make people really
really mad
last time I saw guy like this was Barry
Bonds but sports is about storytelling
and hero worship
and called nicknames and fan at ok
that's our boy that's a big one
fans get mad when you derail that here
was a guy in May 2009 betting
222 with a slugging percentage at 300 no
injuries couldn't hit
the Red Sox as a team are heading about
190 in the World Series he said this on
Wednesday
he's hitting eight hundred against
pitchers he didn't face all year
significantly better today and several
years ago interesting story
the story David Ortiz hitting 733 about
as believable as Bigfoot
then I am
a good thing is that I i agree with car
coward
I would not have said it that sorted
definitively it is
we are in an era where if you don't
question where you can choose that
question because you don't want to
but if you if you don't question the
sluggers in this era
used for paying attention I mean or
you're just in denial
right like David Ortiz the hit
more than 50 home runs again and again
in a season where
everyone around him was doing steroids
and he was named in that 2003
report which had very little substance
to it except
it was reported guys who knows though
there with the testing process at that
point had guys who would have tested
positive
if they had taken over-the-counter
supplements so yeah
it's possible that he took over the
counter supplement and that's why he
tested positive
but in an era when his teammates were
doing it and every other big slugger was
doing it
and it's a guy who was thought as
greater threats like made a great
decision recognize just how
taken from Minnesota yes buddy any was
not a better Minnesota visible to
employer
but you know so they they took him and
then he got great an era when everyone
was doing this saw
its it's so unusual not on president but
unusual that somebody at this age six or
seven years after was supposed to be a
sprite
is doing this well they also I
so at everybody has a right to be
suspicious these ballplayers
I mean you know a I i'm sure the people
play with them are all gonna say things
like I never saw no there's no way he's
doing
in this point I would I would guess it
harder not to be clean
than it was before I'm pretty clear and
I think that
the so I but I i think is well within
his rights be suspicious it you know
it's so rare to see something this age
have better bat speed
the right that before yeah that's the
one thing that yeah it but but it's not
that doesn't mean that he doesn't you
know
they all they also they work harder than
anybody else I mean you know
like a nobody worked harder than Barry
Bonds according to everyone to play but
we don't know
will mean would love the steroids works
you know the most
all this you know yet because like his
power numbers were actually down low but
this year still quite good for about his
age
on and he didn't he hit one home run to
the World Series he was in singles right
yea I was gonna say seven others 11 hits
going into labor early last night it was
world because the slow I'm if they were
but they were all said one big hit movie
still having this conversation he didn't
have that
you know the Grand Slam burial probably
would but but he
if first but then again that the part
about it pictures he never faced before
expect pictures is all know that he said
billion
that was silly on he he hit like
below 200 like 133 against the Tigers
tliat
less than 130 area and he was like under
a hundred video 91-88 against the Tigers
all seventy-nine so he
you know like was he not using the
steroids that
notebook great right but we don't know
like if he took a bunch right after that
series does it but also when it doesn't
look like doesn't mean like what
even when everyone was taking it Noel
was hitting seven hundred per season to
rate under foresees a right there
waiting in the 302 there were many more
home runs
which he did so indefensible a forties
yeah he didn't do well against the
Tigers he had a great World Series
people
for ever happened what about David
Freese why we're not on the David Freese
he
was an average middle of the year player
who ended extraordinary were right
because it hit two
remarkable notes I yeah but you know
what i'm saying is like that
that where there's smoke there's often
fire and certainly there smoke around a
bit to report the other quote very
quickly I believe this from awful
announcing
oh and that 2003 doping list and MLBPA
statement from 2009 indicates that the
number of players on the list
exceeds the number a positive test from
the tooth from 2003
and that legal supplements could trigger
a positive result due to flaws
in the testing process saying Ortiz has
a link to pee Dee's because that New
York Times report
is shoddy journalism considering how you
yeah
out either you're gonna say something
Michael Zak I how few specifics are
known
about the doping list beside the forties
was a PD
abuser when he have been caught in the
previous decade like Manny Ramirez
also mentioned as being on that list
yeah so I
I thought that was pretty good that's a
good critique above taking the other
side and it's a good will take the other
side here
I mean if you can take the other side I
think that perfectly fair I
gets I think they're both wrong um but I
just because like
Alex Rodriguez was never caught Barry
Bonds was never never thought that I
double wire was never right
it does bother they'll that their 70's
famosos ever caught
analyst Rafael Palmeiro cost profit
America
right but you know so I look mad
like you just have to it it's
frustrating but what cowards most write
about is this that we get are
here up because we don't want the story
screwed up in the story is so good right
and David Ortiz
is so legally likable like for
everything that you
but what makes it hard for me to
thoroughly hate the Red Sox is David
Ortiz button
letterpress governor Jon Lester's kid
comes into their apps while Jon Lester
stalking letters like sh
the kid jumps up notices like and get my
hug and the kid comes over and out
you really good yeah
