Can a DH be a MVP?
His clutch performances get Ortiz mentioned in the same breath with basketball legend Bird, the Hall of Famer who helped the Boston Celtics win three NBA championships in the 1980s. Maine Gov. John Baldacci sent 41 lobsters — one for each homer — to Ortiz at Fenway Park last week because Ortiz said in an interview he had never visited Maine and wasn’t sure exactly where it was. Ortiz says he’ll visit the state, part of his attempt to make himself more of a New Englander. Unofficially, he has been adopted. The first huge step was in the 2004 postseason series against the Yankees. Ortiz ended Game 4 with a 12th-inning home run, starting the unprecedented comeback. A year later, his heroics added another layer to the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry. The 2005 AL Most Valuable Player race between Ortiz (.300, career highs with 47 homers and 148 RBI) and the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez (.321, 48 homers, 130 RBI) was another 1-2, New York-Boston finish. “I was disappointed,” Ortiz says. “I thought what I
