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...When commoner Letizia Ortiz married Prince Felipe in May 2004, the former journalist not only catapulted herself into the glossy pages of Spain's hungry gossip magazines, but took her unsuspecting family members with her. None of them, not Letizia's teddy bear of a divorced-but-dating father, nor her firebrand of a grandmother, nor even her tragic youngest sister Erika, who killed herself in February 2007, got as much attention as Telma. Young, pretty, apparently good-hearted (she works for the Red Cross) and best of all unattached, Telma made perfect fodder for what the Spanish call...
Pity the shy, retiring girl whose sibling marries above her station. Yesterday a judge in Toledo, Spain ruled that, like it or not, Telma Ortiz, sister to Princess Letizia - and hence sister-in-law to the heir to the Spanish throne - is a public figure. According to the court, she is not entitled, therefore, to keep the paparazzi away...
True, the Red Sox slugger broke out of a truly embarrassing slump over the weekend, but he did so against the Texas Rangers, the second-worst team in the Major Leagues. And even with that, Ortiz - whose big smile and clutch hitting over the past five years have made him arguably the most popular player in all of baseball - has hit just two home runs in 79 at bats and is batting a meager .177. Fewer than a dozen AL starters have worse numbers...
...Ortiz hitting? With the Yankees playing as if they are human, Manny Ramirez exploding, and J.D. Drew returning to the form of his youth, Big Papi is just getting a slump out of the way when the Sox can afford to absorb it. When the team urgently needs him, which they will, he will do as he has always done: bend down to pick up the mortals around him and single-handedly carry them on his back. Alternative explanation: Julio Lugo gave Ortiz hitting tips in the Dominican Republic in the off season...
...years David Ortiz has carried the Red Sox on his shoulders. Now it is our turn to carry him on ours. Those of us who are true (admittedly irrational) fans have long understood that our emotions and our rituals affect the play on the field. So we must replace our negative fears about what is wrong with absolute certainty that this will pass so that our confidence in him can restore his confidence in himself. P.S. In the 1950s, when Brooklyn Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges was in an equally terrible slump, entire parishes prayed for him. And I gave...