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David Ortiz practically misplaced a $100,000 piece of jewellery in a London sewer

June 26, 2023 by gajah.uk

Pink Sox

“I stared on the grate, which seemed prefer it had been sealed at in regards to the time of the Tudor dynasty.”

David Ortiz at a reunion of the Red Sox 2013 championship team.
David Ortiz practically misplaced out on $100,000 throughout his newest trek to London. Stan Grossfeld / Globe Workers

Pink Sox legend and Fox Sports activities broadcaster David Ortiz made probably the most of his quick stint in London for MLB’s two-game sequence between the Cubs and Cardinals at London Stadium.

Among the many highlights was Ortiz gifting new Fox broadcaster Derek Jeter with a custom-made Pink Sox jersey on Saturday. However Ortiz’s time throughout the pond additionally noticed him practically lose an costly piece of jewellery. 

Fellow Fox Sports activities reporter and The Athletic columnist Ken Rosenthal detailed the incident in his newest pocket book abroad. Whereas on their technique to dinner, Rosenthal was strolling behind Ortiz when the previous slugger’s diamond necklace fell off and slipped proper by way of a grate and into the London sewers. 

“’Massive Papi’ set free an enormous expletive (trace: it was a variation of the one he uttered in his legendary “that is our f—— metropolis” speech at Fenway Park after the Boston Marathon bombing),” Rosenthal wrote. “I stared on the grate, which seemed prefer it had been sealed at in regards to the time of the Tudor dynasty. And whereas the sewer was shallow, I figured Ortiz was by no means getting that necklace again.”

But it surely didn’t take lengthy for Ortiz to show Rosenthal mistaken.

Whereas Ortiz and the remainder of the Fox staff had dinner, workers on the resort the place Ortiz was staying managed to open up the grate and fish out the expensive necklace.

Ortiz acknowledged later that the necklace was priced at $100,000.

“If a traditional individual – in different phrases, somebody not nicknamed ‘Massive Papi’ – had suffered comparable misfortune, he could be plain out of luck,” Rosenthal mentioned. “In fact, a traditional individual wouldn’t be carrying a $100,000 necklace, however we digress. Ortiz mentioned the necklace fell off as a result of he did not lock it correctly. And he claimed the resort worker who recovered it was a fellow Dominican, which in his thoughts defined every little thing.”

The Fox sports activities staff relieved the second throughout Saturday’s pregame present at London Stadium.

“How a lot of a tip did you give that man?” Kevin Burkhardt requested Ortiz.

“Massive-time ideas,” Ortiz responded. “He simply saved $100K for me proper there. I assumed I misplaced it after which unexpectedly, [I hear] ‘Papi, right here’s your bling,’ and I used to be like, ‘My man! My man!’”

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