IMO Greatest Red Sox player ever. he will be missed but looks like he plans on going out on top! and we appreciate that.
should be a 1st ballot HoFer.....
My personal favorite Papi story....
2006 the Sox at Philadelphia. lucky enough to get Diamond Club seats at philly's new ballpark. got there early with my wife and 9 month old son (Manny) to enjoy Sox BP. standing in first row on deck circle Papi comes out to take BP. he glances over and then stops dead in his tracks and jogs straight up to me and my boy and he grabs Manny's checks and pinches them and says "Big cheeks". he then signed his Boston Red Sox onesie he was wearing (i have it in a shadowbox frame). he also signed my RS jersey i was wearing (thanks Papi). i wondered why he glanced over and then stopped dead in his tracks and came hustling over to just us. a few months later i saw a picture of Papi with his son D'Angelo (who is 1 year older than Manny) and realized what stopped him in his tracks. they were almost identical twins.