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I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it now. I'm really, really going to miss David Ortiz.

 

Unlike a lot of you, I have not been a baseball fan all my life. I didn't really pay attention to or care about it until 2002, when my dad took me to a game and I got hooked. It was an April game against the Royals, Wakefield was the winner. Anyways, I was a fan from that moment on. Still, it is very recent as fandom goes, and that 2002 season was the only season I ever saw without David Ortiz. 14 years of Red Sox fandom, and 13 of them have been backed up by the awesome power of Big Papi. It's going to be very strange for me to see someone else regularly playing in the DH spot.

 

EDIT: Holy crap. I just looked up the boxscore of that game. I had no idea Jeremy Affeldt has been around that long.

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Porcello has sucked the life out of this game, and the feel good feelings about Papi's HR are gone.

 

He's given up two runs. He wasn't going to pitch like he has the first few games every time. Relax a little.

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and giving those runs straight back has sucked the life out of the game. I'm not saying the game's over or anything. Just disappointing, since we've seen the Hyde part of Porcello before and until he becomes more consistent, we'll always wait for the other shoe to drop.

 

Also, I want them to beat these turds so bad my eyes are bleeding.

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I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it now. I'm really, really going to miss David Ortiz.

 

Unlike a lot of you, I have not been a baseball fan all my life. I didn't really pay attention to or care about it until 2002, when my dad took me to a game and I got hooked. It was an April game against the Royals, Wakefield was the winner. Anyways, I was a fan from that moment on. Still, it is very recent as fandom goes, and that 2002 season was the only season I ever saw without David Ortiz. 14 years of Red Sox fandom, and 13 of them have been backed up by the awesome power of Big Papi. It's going to be very strange for me to see someone else regularly playing in the DH spot.

 

EDIT: Holy crap. I just looked up the boxscore of that game. I had no idea Jeremy Affeldt has been around that long.

 

That's pretty awesome. You picked a great time to get into baseball/the Red Sox, that's all I can say.

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That's pretty awesome. You picked a great time to get into baseball/the Red Sox, that's all I can say.

 

After 2003 I remember thinking "s***, what did I get into here? Is it always going to be like this? Well, that sucks. It's gonna be a long life." I have always felt vaguely guilty that I didn't have to suffer through a lifetime of disappointment. I got two seasons of pretty good Red Sox baseball in the postseason, despite the losses, and then suddenly they were the World Series Champions.

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I've said it a thousand times and I'll say it now. I'm really, really going to miss David Ortiz.

 

Unlike a lot of you, I have not been a baseball fan all my life. I didn't really pay attention to or care about it until 2002, when my dad took me to a game and I got hooked. It was an April game against the Royals, Wakefield was the winner. Anyways, I was a fan from that moment on. Still, it is very recent as fandom goes, and that 2002 season was the only season I ever saw without David Ortiz. 14 years of Red Sox fandom, and 13 of them have been backed up by the awesome power of Big Papi. It's going to be very strange for me to see someone else regularly playing in the DH spot.

 

EDIT: Holy crap. I just looked up the boxscore of that game. I had no idea Jeremy Affeldt has been around that long.

 

 

Same with me. I didn't get into baseball at all until 2003. I went to see them at Fenway against the Twins in May, barely knowing much about baseball. Also a Wakefield start. Ortiz played first base with Giambi as DH. Everyone went down to watch batting practice and I went up and sat in my seat the whole time like an idiot, and my friend came back saying David Ortiz walked up to him and gave him a ball. I laughed and said that Ortiz sucked... By the end of the year I was very wrong.

 

I've known no Red Sox team without him. Next year is going to be really weird

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After 2003 I remember thinking "s***, what did I get into here? Is it always going to be like this? Well, that sucks. It's gonna be a long life." I have always felt vaguely guilty that I didn't have to suffer through a lifetime of disappointment. I got two seasons of pretty good Red Sox baseball in the postseason, despite the losses, and then suddenly they were the World Series Champions.

 

I must have stared at the tv for five minutes, not moving, when the Sox 2003 season was ended.

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