He's really gone from rags (im Minnesota) to richs in Boston.
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He is one of the most important hitters on the Boston Red Sox.  The Minnesota Twins made a big mistake in trading him, though he wasn't as good in Minnesota, but that's because they were trying to get him to swing differently.  Nice job, David Ortiz!...\n***\nHe loves it when you call him Big Papi\nOrtiz has a lot to smile about.\nLife is good when you are rich, play professional baseball and, as Jeff Passan writes, are named David Ortiz.\nThe Big Jig\nBy Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports\nBOSTON – David Ortiz strolled into the press conference that announced his $50 million contract extension earlier this week wearing the Gross National Product of a small country in diamonds. Fat ones weighted down each ear, about 25 smaller ones hung in a necklace, petite ones encrusted his watch and an uncountable number shone from a bracelet.\n\n"You can get diamonds like that, too," Ortiz said Friday. "You've got to make $50 million first."\n\nOrtiz laughed, and it was no ordinary laugh. It echoed around the Boston Red Sox clubhouse, loud and cacophonous and addicting. It was as coy as wearing half a million bucks or so in jewelry, and it was vintage Big Papi.\n\nSubtlety doesn't exist in David Ortiz's world. Everything is big. His laugh and his bling. His car (a $280,000 Mercedes) and his swing (a looping uppercut into which he thrusts all of his weight, listed at a kindly 230 pounds). His life is one big carnival, and he's the kid walking around with the biggest stuffed animal.\n\n"I'm a happy person," Ortiz said. "Everything about life. If I started telling you, I couldn't finish."\n\nSo we'll start where Ortiz would: On the field at Fenway Park before Friday's victory against Seattle, rekindling an old handshake with Matt Lawton – a two-kick, one-hand slap, no-pretense jig that sent them both into convulsions. Of all the things Ortiz enjoys, bantering with friends might come in third to hitting home runs and spending time with his family.\n\nOrtiz spent so much time commiserating with Lawton and Eddie Guardado, his former teammates at Minnesota, he missed a round of batting practice. When Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell pointed out that Ortiz was about to miss a second turn, he scurried into the cage and walloped two balls over the Green Monster.\n\n"He does enjoy what he's doing, and he should," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "If you were David, you would have fun, too. He's making a boatload of money, he's one of the best hitters in the game and he's a good guy."\n\nAll of those factors have conspired to take the 30-year-old Ortiz from a practical no-name at the beginning of the 2003 season to the lynchpin of the Red Sox franchise in 2006. Ortiz led the American League in RBIs last season, finished second in home runs and got jobbed in MVP voting. In a matter of three seasons, he went from being not offered a contract by the Twins to such ubiquity in the New England area that women parade around in T-shirts reading:\n\nPLEASE ME\nORTIZ ME\n\nWere Ortiz simply a great player, he would not inspire the idolatry he does. It is his joie de vivre that makes him a hero in his native Dominican Republic and Boston, two places that couldn't be any more different. It's also the egregious bat flip when he hit home runs in the World Baseball Classic against Cuba, and the smile that glows like his teeth were made of ivory, and the ability to wear sunglasses indoors and not look like a moron.\n\nThe demand for Ortiz has grown commensurate to his numbers. During a photo shoot this spring, Sports Illustrated wanted to play off outfielder Coco Crisp's name with a pitcher of milk.\n\nOrtiz was in charge of figuring out what to do with it.\n\n"It was scripted for a little bit," Crisp said. "And it all fell out the window when I felt how cold the milk was. It was a warm day, and the milk was ice cold. When y
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I don't know what became of him, either.  However, he has been immortalized, such as it is, through baseball memorabilia.
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He's no longer active.\n\nWhat a shame, he's one of those guys who peaked too soon and had his best years in college.
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His track record lately has not been any good. He has to go to a team that does not have too many high expectations and be given time to build the team.
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Because his world just got a lot harder. He had free reign on everything for awhile. But not any more. Time to pay the piper.
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I hope he gets sent back to wherever he came from along with all the other illegals from his family.  American citizens have had enough of taking care of your problems.  Help your own Country grow.
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I think with his history of aggressiveness, or that the aggressiveness has been attributed to him, that just the fact that he "came back" will prompt a few aggressive changes.  I think he'll be the one to make a Roger Clemens type deal, or something.
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Sounds like he is regretting his rash decision.
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no he inherited his wealth and now he's going public (both his business and himself)
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He has done a good job. Of ruining the economy with his supply side economics, He has done a good job of further dividing the american people, He has done a good job of taking us to a war against the advice of many world leaders. He has abandon the poor in this country in a time of need in favor of his rich buddys. I certainly hope that enough people turn out in this next election to return the democrats to power in one or both of the houses to provide a check against some more of his good jobs, he is hell bent on destroying america and its dreams.
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Probably not Philidelphia. Why not stay at boston and simply move to a cheaper apartment. If not, go to New York.
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his name is rich fields.
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I think his family became more important to him. Kids will do that to you.
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Seems he has many other things going on his life.\n\nK
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He obtained his original fortune from his family's Cleveland-based shipping company.  He used that money to purchase the Yankees in 1971, and most of his current fortune is a result of the massive increase in baseball revenues over the last 35 years.
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He'll be stayin put in Minnesota. ★
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It would be nice to assume that he lives in Chicago, but since he can afford it, he may have homes in several different places. Unless you ask him yourself, the answer to this question may be unknown.