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After 20 memorable seasons in Major League Baseball, David Ortiz took the field for the final time last night in Boston. With Ortiz’s storied career now in the books, The Players’ Tribune looks back at our favorite photos of the legend known as Big Papi. I have to start with a story.We used to have this vending machine when I was playing rookie ball in Arizona in 1994. It was one of the fancy new machines. When you put your change in to get a soda, it would tell you on the screen how much money you were missing. So this one day, I see one of my young Dominican teammates standing at the machine, looking confused.

He was missing 10 cents.The screen said, “Please add a dime.”In Spanish, the word dime means “tell me.”So one of my other Dominican teammates goes up to this kid and says, in Spanish, “What’s... What are you doing?”The kid says, “I don’t understand what’s going on with this machine.”He wraps his arm around the kid’s shoulder and points to the screen. “Bro … you see that word there? Dime. Dee-may. It knows you speak Spanish.

The machine is telling you to ask for what you want.”The kid looks at the vending machine. Then he looks back at my teammate. Then he looks back at the machine.He leans in real close to the coin slot and starts shouting, “A Coca-Cola! I want a Coca-Cola! A COCA-COLA!” We were in tears.

We were rolling around on the ground. The poor kid just kept shouting his order, looking all confused, until someone put a dime in the slot and a Coke rolled out.These days in the Dominican, a lot of kids grow up... Now you have satellite TV and social media teaching them the language at a really early age. But back when I was coming up in the ’90s, a lot of the Latin ballplayers coming to the States could only tell you 10 words. I was one of the lucky ones. I knew maybe 30.You would hear stories about guys trying to order food and all the different things they did just to get by, and it was amazing.

This one time, I saw one of my boys in rookie ball trying to order a chicken sandwich at McDonald’s by flapping his arms like a chicken in front of the lady at the... These memories are funny now, but when you’re hungry and you can’t really speak the language and all you want to do is get some food, it’s not so funny. It’s a real struggle for guys.It was definitely a struggle for me, and that’s why I started by telling you this story. You know David Ortiz now. You know Big Papi. But when I came to this country, I was David Arias.

I was a simple guy who was trying to have fun and make his dream come true.People ask me sometimes, “Why do so many Latin players struggle early in their careers? Why does it take them a while to figure things out?”And I just look back at them like, Are you serious? You’re trying to do the hardest thing in sports — you gotta hit a 95-mph fastball every day. But you’re also completely new to a country and a language and a way of life. One day, you are able to laugh and joke and carry on conversations in Spanish, then the next day you get on a plane for the first time in your life and you come... The culture is different.

The way of life is different. I’m so proud to be American, but it took me some time to learn things.I went from rookie ball in Arizona, to Single A ball in Wisconsin. Cactuses to Christmas trees, bro. When I got there at the beginning of the spring, it was still snowing. I was 19 years old, and I had never seen snow in my life. David Ortiz: The Big Papi Story is the most comprehensive chronicle to date of the life of Red Sox icon and three-time World Series champion David Ortiz.

After his release by the Minnesota Twins, a chance encounter would change the trajectory of David's life forever. David Ortiz speaks for all of us when he addresses the city in its most trying moment, following the Boston Marathon Bombing. The Sox finally stand up to the bullies, "The Curse" is broken, and in doing so, Papi becomes a sensation in Boston, and a Red Sox immortal. A special audio series celebrating the rise of a man who willed himself to greatness — and in the process, changed the culture of a city. A thick fog covers the tallest buildings throughout Boston as the crowds at Fenway take to their feet. They stand to give a heroic send-off to the man who continually renewed the strength of one of the most iconic cities in the United States.

That man is David Ortiz. Ortiz, also known by his nickname, Big Papi, saw his final stand begin as his regular season play came to an end on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. He entered one of the greatest send-offs of all time in a pre-game ceremony that started with a walk to the pitcher’s mound as the resounding sound of 37,497 fans chanting “Papi” filled the... He was given a solid gold Big Papi bat, a custom pair of No. 34 L.L.

Bean boots and was even graced by the attendance of the president of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina, who threw out the first pitch to Ortiz. One is more likely to be electrocuted in a rubber suit than to find a Bostonian who does not know the meaning of the No. 34, a number that as of next year will be retired by the Red Sox organization. Ortiz led the Red Sox to their World Series victory in 2004, the season that ended their 86-year World Series drought and ended the “Curse of the Bambino,” a superstition that supposedly began when... Destiny was spelled O-R-T-I-Z as Papi recorded three postseason walk-off home runs in 11 days, two of which contributed to the unthinkable as the Red Sox came back from a three-game deficit to beat... It was unprecedented.

No team had ever come back after losing the first three games of a seven-game series – prior to the Red Sox. The Soul of Sound: How AI Challenges Human Expression in Music In an age where artificial intelligence can mimic the voice of Freddie Mercury or reimagine pop hits as synthwave ballads, a new frontier has emerged — one that blurs the line between innovation and... While AI offers undeniable benefits in technical domains, its intrusion into creative arts, especially music, raises urgent questions. Not just about copyright, but about culture, education, and the very soul of artistic expression. These powerful lyrics remind us how much good is inside each of us and that sometimes we are too blinded by our imperfections to see the other side of the coin, to see all...

The song was sent to me late in the middle of the night. I was still awake enough to plug in my headphones and listen to it immediately. I always did this when my best friend sent me songs, never wasting a moment. She had sent a message with this one too, telling me it reminded her so much of both of us and what we have each been through in the past couple of months. What's your sign? It's one of the first questions some of us are asked when approached by someone in a bar, at a party or even when having lunch with some of our friends.

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