Not in My House

As if baseball’s Hatfields and McCoys (or their boisterous and loyal fans) needed another reason to get worked up: Major League Baseball is planning to cast Boston slugger David Ortiz in the role of Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium.
Jack Curry reports for The New York Times: “Ortiz will have the opportunity to be like Babe because of a Call Your Shot promotion that is part of the home run derby.”
A Red Sox jersey excavated from the construction site at the new Yankee Stadium in April. (Damon Winters/The New York Times)
The promotion, organized by M.L.B. and sponsored by State Farm, will take place during the home run derby portion of the All-Star game celebration. “The Yankees were upset about the plans involving Ortiz and said they were unaware of the promotion until a reporter contacted them Thursday night,” Curry reports.
This is just the latest of a series of Red Sox intrusions on what many Yankees fans consider hallowed ground. In April, a construction worker had buried a David Ortiz jersey in the foundation of the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees had an “excavation ceremony” to remove the offending item.
The construction worker, Gino Castignoli, also reportedly told friends he buried a scorecard from Game 4 of the 2004 A.L.C.S. in which the Red Sox beat the Yankees in hopes of jinxing New York. Whether you believe in such voodoo or not, you have to admit: it’s cheeky.
But let me ask: how do you feel about Ortiz playing the Babe at Yankee Stadium during the All-Star celebration?
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Next » 1. May 23, 2008 9:56 am
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I think of it as a cheap publicity stunt. Why not choose A-Rod, a Yankee slugger,2011 New Arrival Sale, to show continuity with the Babe?
As for Gino Castiglioni, what an ingrate, considering the construction company hired him only because he lives in the Bronx and the Yankees insisted on giving employment to local people. Maybe he will return his paycheck.
— JR 2. May 23, 2008 10:02 am
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Enough with the Sox Love already!! Seriously, I went to a country music show in Austin TX the other night and saw like 12 Sox hats. In Texas! This is completely inappropriate and an obvious dig by a closet Sox fan as a means of piling on during what has been a difficult time to be on the Pinstriped side of the fence. Trost and Levine need to kill this garbage ASAP!
— Ryan 3. May 23, 2008 10:10 am
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Oh, come on, yankee fans. David Ortiz has slammed so many baseballs out of yankee Stadium, why should one more bother you?
— stefan 4. May 23, 2008 10:12 am
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It’s a total JOKE. Comparing him to the Babe is like comparing Bush to F.D.R. I’ve seen Babe Ruth play and Ortiz is no Babe Ruth!
— donniebaseball 5. May 23, 2008 10:14 am
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Well, where as New York has always been tolerant,Cheap The Hundreds Hats, the folks at Yawkey would never allow this. The red sox have only recently had success, and the their self-made nation has showed precociously to be sore winners. After all the success and class we [The Yankees] have had we can let the red sox pretend and play in our house and have a taste of an unmatched history of Success that will be returning to the Bronx very soon. To me it shows that red sox are still and always will be one step behind the Yankees. Bring it on papi!
— bowieno 6. May 23, 2008 10:19 am
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This is just another example of how the Red sox Nation thinks it should have its cake and eat it too… They continue to have a chip on their shoulder and believe it’s them against the world so things like this are “ok” when it applies to them but not anyone else… I can just imagine how Red Sox Fans would have felt in ‘99 if MLB had created a Ted Williams competition and casted Derek Jeter as Teddy Ballgame- Case and Point,San Diego Padres Hats sale, Discussion Ova!!!
— Jason 7. May 23, 2008 10:21 am
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As a lifelong Yankee fan,Florida Marlins Hats sale, I think the Yanks should just let this go already. They look dumb.
The place to beat the Sox is on the field. If you can’t do it there, then the rest of this just looks wrong.
BTW, apparently Rodriguez didn’t want to take part in this, and I can’t say I blame him. It’s a dopey promotion. Let it go already.
— Tim N. 8. May 23, 2008 10:22 am
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As to comment #2, get over it. !What you saw in Texas is only a fraction of “Red Sox” nation. At Baltimore games there are thousands of Sox fans. Also at games in Cal.,Cheap Chicago White Sox Hats, Arizona, etc. The Yankees need to stop whining and win a world series rather than choke in the first round of play-offs. Yes-I am a Red Sox fan!
— Raymond 9. May 23, 2008 10:35 am
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What jackass thought of this idea? How about having a YANKEE do the hitting? Ortiz being likened to the Babe? Sacrilege. The Babe will forever be a NY Yankee icon. Ortiz is a product of today’s “conditioning (wink wink)” and is nothing more than a pinch-hitter given all he does is DH. For the final ASG in the final season of THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT, why not highlight and focus on a Yankee instead of a Boston player? Give me a break. One more reason why Bud Selig is a moron…
— Steve 10. May 23, 2008 10:35 am
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I have entered the “pick the spot” contest, but I would change the contest to Fenway & have Dent or Boone do the hitting. Ask fenway faithful if they would like that contest…..
— Frank Napolitano 11. May 23, 2008 10:39 am
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As a Bostonian I find the article hilarious!! Maybe the Yankess should spend more time trying to find some decent pitching because if they do not the Red Sox and David Ortiz will be World Champions again this year. Boo Hoo!! Keep crying, we in Red Sox Nation love it!!
— Trish 12. May 23, 2008 10:42 am
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I have been a Yankee fan for 52 years, you could call me a die-hard. This is Baseball, it transcends the teams, Yankees and Babe, Red Sox and Big Papi.
So what, big deal – a Red Sox player will try to hit the ball out of the park with a fan calling the shots – in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? Will that eclipse the player who hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium at his first at bat? 50 years from now will they still be referring to Yankee Stadium the “House that Ruth Built” or “The House that Manny Ortiz tried to hit the ball in the stands where the fan pointed?” Lets be real about this – it is for fun.
I am far too young to have seen Babe Ruth play but in films he appears to be a man of large physical stature. In all my years watching Americas pastime, I haven’t seen many who have the barrel-shaped torso of the Babe; maybe Boog Powell or Frank Howard, in their later years playing.
Big Papi comes close to the size and appearance of Babe Ruth – so just let him hit the ball where the fan points and have some fun with it. Remember it is Baseball and only Baseball.
As for A-Rod participating in this one-time event, he will have plenty of opportunities in the present Yankee Stadium, and the New Yankee Stadium for Ruthian moments, as he draws closer to and surpasses the many Yankee records set in the “House that Ruth Built.” Maybe 50 years from now people will be referring to the Yankee Stadium as the “House that Ruth Built and A-Rod made his Home.”
— Joe Salvia 13. May 23, 2008 10:46 am
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As for Gino Castiglioni, why even bring him up and give his name anmy attention. All he is looking for is, as Andy Warhol put it so saliently,Cheap New Era MLB Hats, his 15 minutes of fame. And for Die-Hard Yankee Fans – and him, his 15 minutes ended long ago.
— Joe Salvia 14. May 23, 2008 10:50 am
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Yankee fans should flood the voting, since you know all those Red Sox fans are voting to call the shot in the short porch! If the contest happens (and I can’t see the Yankees stopping it) at least make it as difficult for Ortiz as possible.
— Mary 15. May 23, 2008 11:06 am
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MLB should definitely feature the talents of David Ortiz from the league leading World Champions instead of also ran A-Rod from cellar dwelling wild card flops.
— Paul Barrett 16. May 23, 2008 11:07 am
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Ortiz should be permitted to try to hit the homer as long as he wears a Yankee uniform while he’s doing it–kind of like that ESPN spot last year!
— Joe Baseball 17. May 23,Cheap Rockstar Energy hats, 2008 11:09 am
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If I were a Yankees fan, I would find this annoying. However, I would find so much more to be unhappy about this season that the contest in question would be a mere blip on the radar.
If the Yankees organization and fans are as “classy” as they always pretend to be, they will let it go. MLB is all about entertainment dollars. The HR Derby is stupid, anyway, and has little to do with the actual game of baseball.
— gail 18. May 23, 2008 11:11 am
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Hey, I live in Texas and have been a Red Sox fan almost my entire life. Still remember Yaz’s triple crown year and the many “so close” years. Red Sox nation has been around for years, but only recently has gotten such notoriety because of their recent success, especially the 0-3 comeback against the Yankees. Give it a rest; wearing a Red Sox cap in Texas or anywhere outside of New England is just fine with me.
— Longhorn 19. May 23, 2008 11:16 am
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It is part of the home run contest get over it. I would be more concerned with being in the basement…hey can you get me a beer from the fridge while you are down there?
— Matt 20. May 23, 2008 11:16 am
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The stunt is stupid anyway, since the famous home run in question took place in Chicago. Hey, do it at Wrigley. But the Yankees wanted this All-Star Game. ASGs attract all kinds of dumb-but-sponsored events.They can’t demand that MLB turn such a sponsored event into a Yankee-centric stunt by forcing State Farm to make their guy the chosen slugger. The key word,Pittsburgh Pirates Hats, though,Scarves, is “sponsored”. If they wanted to nix the thing altogether that’s another story. But I don’t think they’ll do that. Money makes the wheels turn. What goes around comes around if you get my meaning.
— Joe Lee 21. May 23, 2008 11:19 am
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tolerance-yes. Big P can have his swing. He has the Bambino physique down; dont ya think?
but let A-Rod and maybe Thome and Thomas have a shot at it too.
— peterboy 22. May 23, 2008 11:22 am
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NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!
— Sandra Smith 23. May 23,Houston Astros Hats sale, 2008 11:27 am
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Sure Longhorn, you and everyone else down here are “lifelong Sox” fans. Whatever, I’m sure if I bothered to get to know any of you that I’d find a Yankee hat from the late 90’s somewhere in your home. Maybe if some of you would root for the Stros or Rangers, they’d have a reason to improve their teams. I don’t root for either as I’m a transplant born and raised in the Bronx. Why don’t “ya’ll” give it a rest and hop on a local bandwagon and stop drinking the NESPN kool aid.
— Ryan 24. May 23, 2008 11:28 am
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Let’s see … Ortiz is fat, he occasionally hits clutch homers (but none bigger than Dent’s or Boone’s – why not use one of them?), he’s never hit more than 54 home runs in a season (which Ruth did 4 times in a 154 game season), his lifetime batting average is 40 points lower than Babe’s (and that’s not even including Popi’s .205 average so far this year), he’s not a major league beer drinker, and, most importantly, he’s never been a Yankee. No way should this travesty be allowed. It would be like honoring the Patriots by using Eli Manning as their poster boy.
— John Arch 25. May 23, 2008 11:29 am
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Whoever thought this up needs a stern lesson in baseball history. To choose a Red Sox player to “call a shot” a la Babe Ruth is sick and wrong in so many ways. It would be like building a “bloody sock” promotion around Andy Pettite. Or having Jorge Posada mimic Carlton Fisk’s World Series home run from 1975. I like David Ortiz as a player, and would have no problem with a promotion where the Home Run Derby finalists — whoever they are — get to call a shot. Some re-thinking is needed here in a hurry.
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