It looks as though the Red Sox will exercise the one-year, $12.5 million option on David Ortiz’ contract.

Ortiz loves playing in Boston despite the scrutiny he has faced from the media over the past two seasons.

Last week he said the following:

"As soon as you struggle for a week, it's going to be the same thing. People saying you are old, saying you have no bat speed anymore. People talking all kind of crap.” [source]

“I want to give this team another World Series, and dealing with all the other crap with people telling you you can't do it no more, or this and that, I have no room for that.” [source]

If the local media had any common sense, they would know that David Ortiz will start of slowly in 2011. And he will finish with respectable numbers. That’s been his forte for the past two seasons.

In 2009 he got off to a slow start and finished the season with a .238 batting average with 28 homeruns and 99 rbi.  He got off to a slow start in 2010 and finshed with a batting average of .270 with 32 homeruns and 102 rbi.

But history to these people is yesterday’s newspaper. God forbid they look as far back as last season and learn from it. And two seasons ago? Well thats ancient history.

What's scary is that the media in this town knows David Ortiz’ history…yet they have reacted the same exact way for the past two Aprils when he gets off to a slow start--they get nasty, they get negative and they perpetuate his struggles.

Well, at least Red Sox fans are smart enough to know that a slow April doesnt translate to a bad season, even if the media isnt.

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