Did he really just say that on live TV? No, he didn’t.
However, some Red Sox fans may have been understandably confused following Eduardo Nunez’s appearance on the Fox postgame show after the team’s World Series-clinching Game 5 win. In a jovial exchange with retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, the third baseman was asked about the mood inside the team’s clubhouse Sunday before the game.
Nunez said it was generally relaxed.
“You know, we play cards,” he said. “I bring Mamajuana to my house.”
The two Dominican-born baseball players laughed knowingly together.