Ortiz Is a Popular Pitchman for Many Brands in Retirement This is the first appearance by the former Red Sox legend in ads for DraftKings. The commercial depicts Hart hosting a Super Bowl party for many of his celebrity friends with a hook on their names that will be “Big” for Ortiz.

Three-time World Series Champion and former World Series MVP David Ortiz, affectionately known as "Big Papi," is an MLB studio analyst for FOX Sports. He contributes to the network's regular season, All-Star Game and MLB Postseason coverage.

The DraftKings Sportsbook MA commercial will feature names that every Boston sports fan is familiar with. David Ortiz, Zdeno Chara, Brian Scalabrine and Aly Raisman created a buzz when all were spotted filming the DraftKings commercial outside TD Garden in January.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me. Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston.

(A word on how he got the nickname. Ortiz had trouble remembering names, so he called everyone, “Papi.” Jerry Remy, the beloved late Red Sox broadcaster, took it from there. “I went up to him one day and said, 'You're a big guy, you mind if I call you Big Papi?' ” Remy said one night during a broadcast.

Three-time World Series Champion and former World Series MVP David Ortiz, affectionately known as "Big Papi," is an MLB studio analyst for FOX Sports. He contributes to the network's regular season, All-Star Game and MLB Postseason coverage.

At approximately 8:50 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time, Ortiz was "ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle", saw Ortiz wearing white pants, and shot him with a single bullet in the back.

A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Rather than negotiate a contract, or go to arbitration, the Twins instead decided to release Ortiz as a cost-cutting move on December 16, after being unable to swing a trade for him. In parts of six seasons totaling 455 games with the Twins, Ortiz hit 58 home runs and had 238 RBI.

Three-time World Series Champion and former World Series MVP David Ortiz, affectionately known as "Big Papi," is an MLB studio analyst for FOX Sports. He contributes to the network's regular season, All-Star Game and MLB Postseason coverage.

Ortiz, you see, tested positive for a banned substance during ostensibly anonymous survey testing in 2003, a year Major League Baseball and the MLBPA viewed as a gateway to performance-enhancing drug testing with penalties.