Dear Big Papi,

I’m a little disappointed by your record-breaking home run (#51) last night. First inning? The first pitch you saw from Johan “I don’t lose in the second half of the season” Santana?

Look, I’m not saying that it needed to be a walkoff, although we all love those. But you should have at least given Chris Berman enough time to ruin the moment. Instead of holding back his tears when he hugged you, Johnny Pesky would have been full-out balling if you had made it a little more dramatic. Hell, Johan Santana had time to tip his cap to you.

Even your teammates were a bit annoyed. When you hit your second home run (#52) of the game in the 7th (showoff) to dead center, they gave you the silent treatment.

But you do deserve credit for tying and breaking the Red Sox single season home run record at Fenway against the team that released you. That was a nice touch. So I guess we’ll let the other stuff go. Just make sure to be more dramatic when you break your record next year.

-Red Sox Nation

When I first wrote a post about Papi breaking The Beast’s home run record it read more like an overly emotional novel by one of the Bronte sisters rather than the light atmosphere I’d prefer to keep around here. In all honesty, I was ecstatic to see Papi hit that bomb off of Santana. And watching Johnny Pesky almost start crying as he hugged Ortiz was a great moment. It was the most fun I’ve had watching an Ortiz home run since Game Four, or Game Five, or the first game of the World Series, or the walkoff against Baltimore, or Texas, or…