Horford has dinner with Red Sox star Ortiz

Post #1 » by **HMFFL** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:01 pm

Hawks rookie center Al Horford is finding the hospitality much to his liking in Boston.

He ate dinner Monday night at the home of Red Sox All-Star and fellow Dominican-born pro athlete David Ortiz.

Horford, who was accompanied by two Hawks' staffers, was invited to join Ortiz and several of his Red Sox teammates for a monthly dinner at Ortiz's suburban Boston home.

"It was definitely a good time," Horford said. "A real good time."

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DorfonCeltics · Post #2 » by **DorfonCeltics** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:25 pm

Pretty classy move by Big Papi to invite the young stud to dinner. Does anyone know if they are friends from somewhere or if this was out of the blue?

Joe Kleazy · Post #3 » by **Joe Kleazy** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:09 pm

HMFFL wrote:
Hawks rookie center Al Horford is finding the hospitality much to his liking in Boston.

He ate dinner Monday night at the home of Red Sox All-Star and fellow Dominican-born pro athlete David Ortiz.

Horford, who was accompanied by two Hawks' staffers, was invited to join Ortiz and several of his Red Sox teammates for a monthly dinner at Ortiz's suburban Boston home.

"It was definitely a good time," Horford said. "A real good time."

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Yea you gotta watch out for that type of sh** that happened in Celtic Pride :rofl:

evildallas · Post #4 » by **evildallas** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:42 am

Not a surprise considering they are both prominent Dominican athletes.

DorfonCeltics · Post #5 » by **DorfonCeltics** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:29 pm

Our FSN sideline reporter Gregg Dickerson said last night at the game that Tito Horford (Al's dad) was Papi's idol growing up as a kid. He almost stuck with basketball instead of baseball because of Tito's influence. Ortiz wanted to show Tito some respect by inviting his son to dinner at this place. I think it's a pretty cool story.