David Ortiz To Joe Girardi: 'Take It Like A Man'

For the sake of his pitching staff, Joe Girardi may want to quit talking about David Ortiz.

Girardi said he had a problem with the Red Sox slugger when he flipped his bat after hitting a home run in Tuesday night's game at Yankee Stadium.

After Boston crushed New York 11-6 on Wednesday - in which Ortiz nailed another homer - Big Papi had some harsh words for the Yankees manager.

"I don't care what Joe Girardi says," Ortiz said. "Take it like a man. I'm done with that."

Ortiz, who gently put his bat down after his home run in the first inning, said that he didn't think his bat-flip was a big deal.

"I don't want to have you guys asking me the same questions. I got almost 370 bombs in the big leagues and everybody wants to make a big deal because I bat-flip one of them," he said. "(Expletive) that (expletive), man. If I have to make that video on my (expletive), let's see how many bat flips I got on this (expletive). Good night."

The Red Sox will go for the series sweep in New York on Thursday night.

Comments

[hchavez]

03:32 PM on 06/17/2011

Good one for Ortiz.

[BillAnthony]

07:55 PM on 06/12/2011

It's the juice talking.

[Greatest Darthfruit]

01:44 PM on 06/11/2011

Ortiz's got a point

[hawkny]

12:42 PM on 06/11/2011

Girardi was looking to creat a smoke screen to shift the media's heat from himself and his player's poor performance to something frivolous. As it was, Ortiz ,was standing at home plate, facing his team's dugout. He spun his bat, in a reverse motion in that direction, away from Girardi, towards his teammates. He showed no disrespect to the Yankee players or Girardi. Papi has nothing to apologize for...

[LiberalAsTheDayIsLong]

07:46 AM on 06/10/2011

Hey Joe....the big baby store called they're running out of you!

[Greatest Darthfruit]

01:46 PM on 06/11/2011

that's a very used "Seinfeld" quote, so, your comment made me yawn

[LiberalAsTheDayIsLong]

09:55 PM on 06/11/2011

You woke up enough to comment....a true Yankee's fan.

[LiberalAsTheDayIsLong]

07:44 AM on 06/10/2011

Hey Yanks.....we're running out of brooms over here!

[Greatest Darthfruit]

01:52 PM on 06/11/2011

LOL

[Jason Olmstead]

09:56 PM on 06/09/2011

I'm glad to see Big Papi having some of that 2004 swagger that he did in the playoffs. It's great to see him back hitting the ball. Papi and A-Gon are tearing it up.

[Wide Stance]

07:20 PM on 06/09/2011

Keep flipping hitting, Papi.

Girardi, if you don't want people going yard to right, get a bigger yard (or better staff).

(That flip was such a non-story....)

[sowhostheliar]

05:50 PM on 06/09/2011

Come late October, neither will be around for any bat flipping or any other highlite for that matter.

[Spartan112]

06:24 PM on 06/09/2011

How do you figure?

[globalguy]

05:35 PM on 06/09/2011

I actually like big poppi and I'm a Yankee fan but as an ex-pitcher I would have drilled him later...

[Spartan112]

06:25 PM on 06/09/2011

Yup, and as a sox fan I would have been ok with that as long as it wasn't a head shot.

[jl4141]

04:39 PM on 06/09/2011

One of them flipped his bat, the other his wig. Go Sox!!!

[MahatmaCoat]

04:26 PM on 06/09/2011

CC, please DRILL Ortiz tonight. Follow the code.

[cookerman45]

05:00 PM on 06/09/2011

try not losing ya friggin yankee lover.....talk about choking....

CC HAS NO BALLS.

[tcnsrq]

03:48 PM on 06/09/2011

I see Papi may have finally recovered from his steroid comedown from the last 2 seasons....

[huffyISaHottie]

04:01 PM on 06/09/2011

He didn't take quite as long as AROD did.

[tcnsrq]

08:14 PM on 06/09/2011

yeah....I know...... looking at Papi its hard to believe he was doing cycles of premabolan.....

[breakingrocks]

03:47 PM on 06/09/2011

Why would anyone in their right mind want to get Big Papi mad at them?

[aceshigh11]

03:36 PM on 06/09/2011

Ortiz is having a monster year so far. He's been a joy to watch.

Shame that we're losing Pedroia for up to a month (potentially), but he's not healthy, and it's been showing. If he comes back stronger, it'll be worth it.