Arts & Entertainment

World Series MVP Big Papi to Produce Show on MTV

David Ortiz will co-produce an MTV show about baseball and pop culture.

To those of us in Red Sox Nation, David Ortiz is the producer of clutch hits.

But MTV executives see Big Papi producing something else: a hit TV series.

The as-yet-unnamed show would meld baseball and pop culture in a 30-episode series set at the Major League Baseball Fan Cave in Manhattan, according to the Associated Press via ESPN.

Click through to ESPN find out why MTV execs picked the Red Sox designated hitter and why they think he'll be a natural.


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