Ortiz has always been a royal pain in the backside for the Yankees and their fans. So on the day that he collected his 536th career home run, tying the one and only Mickey Mantle for 17th on the all-time home run list, a website has come to the forefront, asking fans of the Evil Empire to show their “admiration” for Big Papi by dropping trou with a cheeky salute.
Perhaps it’s not the classiest send-off, after all, the Red Sox did do right by Derek Jeter in 2014, but the taste of bitterness is fresh after the way Sox fans chanted “We Want A-Rod,” in hopes of further embarrassing him before his own retirement, barely a month ago.