BOSTON -- Red Sox fans will soon have another memory of recently retired slugger David Ortiz when traveling out of Boston's Logan Airport.
An employee of JetBlue Airlines announced to Big Papi and a crowd that the airline was naming Gate 34 in Terminal C after him during a private party to honor the star at a restaurant in Boston's Seaport District on Friday night.
"You mean I'm going to have my own gate at the airport?" Ortiz said, holding a microphone on the stage. "You're [messing] with me, aren't you?"
The event was sponsored by JetBlue, MasterCard, Bank of America and Dunkin Donuts and was billed as "an evening dedicated to honoring David Ortiz.