![]() “Every single thought has to be in a positive way, every single one, so you can bounce out of it. “I think that there’s no room for negativity once you get there,” he said. When we walked into the clubhouse for Game 4, we thought we were done.” ![]() “That actually changed our whole demeanor. “They’ve got to have somebody like we had with Kevin Millar, to step up and say: ‘Don’t let us win tonight,’’’ he said. Ortiz’s former '04 teammate Tim Wakefield, also at the tournament, feels like the Celtics need someone to lighten the mood. We had played those guys more than 20 times and we know what to do to beat them.' We just weren't doing it. “We pretty much were just thinking about: ‘Man, they scored a lot of runs the third game. “Pretty quiet,” he said in the interview, sitting at an outside table near the course. Ortiz recalled what the clubhouse was like after that game. Like the 2004 Red Sox, who were blown out 19-8 in Game 3, the Celtics are coming off a blowout loss in Miami on Sunday night. I cannot try to win three games at once.’” “Once you get there - even if you’re 3-0 - you’re not thinking about quitting, you’re thinking about ‘OK, I hit bottom. “Being 3-0, you’ve got two choices: You either quit or you go back out, and in professional sports, once you get to that point, there’s no way to quit,” said Ortiz, the 2004 ALCS MVP. The 47-year-old Ortiz, who was enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame last summer, knows how the Celtics must look at it. “If you do it in basketball, it’s got to be the same city. “Yeah, and there’d be no better time than this one for that happen,” Ortiz said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday morning at his charity golf tournament. It is the only team to do it in MLB history. Not only did they come back, Boston won the World Series. Ortiz and the Red Sox faced seemingly insurmountable odds in 2004 when they trailed the rival New York Yankees 0-3 in the American League championship series. It's happened 149 times in league history and the team in front has won the series. “Big Papi” knows no NBA team has recovered from an 0-3 deficit like the Celtics face in the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat. (AP) - Even though the odds are against them, former Red Sox slugger and Hall of Famer David Ortiz isn't giving up on the Boston Celtics.
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