This is Bobby Valentine and who was just fantastic.

Oh, the writers, how they fawned all over him when he got hired here.

David Ortiz has a new book called Poppy that will be released soon.

And Sports Illustrated had some sections of it.

And surprisingly enough, David Ortiz and the team were not fans of Bobby Valentine.

And remember when they were in spring, I'm not patting myself on the back here, except I am.

Remember in spring training while all the writers were like, oh, this is so revolutionary.

Look at what Bobby Valentine's doing. I said that if you had a 14-year-old travel team, they'd be rolling their eyes at these drills. This is absolutely ridiculous. The fungobat stuff, the grounders to each other. I mean, it was, you're reading it. Yeah, you can't do that. All the stuff he did with his Japanese league teams, he basically came over and did here. He stood in a batters box with Bogart's to teach him how to bunt. He actually was giving Jose Iglesias fielding tips. Remember this? Yes, he was out there. The glacius, one of the best fielding short stops on the planet. And people knew that back then in 2012. No, he was out next to him. He was out next to him. Bogarts was on that team, right? Yes. Yeah, and he was Bogart's. He was in the batters box. He might have still been a minor leaguer at the time. Regardless, he was up in spring training.

And he was standing with him in the box, showing him how to bunt. Right. And it looked like something you would do with legitimately an eight-year-old kid. He was treating them like eight-year-olds. Well, here are some excerpts from the book. This is him, David Ortiz talking about Bobby Valentine.

It was all... treating them like eight-year-olds. Well, here are some excerpts from the book. This is him, David Ortiz talking about Bobby Valentine.

It was all about him in the spring.

It was as if he wanted to prove how smart he was by running us through all these drills he used while he was managing Japan.

Drills that we had never done before.

Bobby was in his own bubble and I just wanted to get him out of it and tell him F you.

One day we were doing all his drills and the S hit the fan.

We were hitting pop-ups, and Bobby had said that he didn't want the infielders to say,

I've got it, I've got it.

He thought that it was an unreliable way of calling off a teammate because in a

noisy stadium, the player who had been called off might not hear the teammate taking control.

Can you imagine sitting there with Ortiz at the time is like 35 or something?

36, yeah.

36. Can you imagine sitting there with guys that have played baseball their entire lives, they've made millions

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