Boston Red Sox designated roider David Ortiz is being sued by the current king of Harlem and rap Jay-Z for naming a club in his native Dominican Republic after Hova’s line of 40/40 clubs that Z originally started in Manhattan.
I’m sure it didn’t help matters that Z is a New York native and major Yankees fan.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, accuses Ortiz of calling his Santo Domingo club Forty-Forty in the hopes of trading on the rap star’s fame.
Jay-Z’s string of bars can be found in Manhattan, Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
The name of the club, 40/40, as most baseball fans know represents a player that hits at least 40 home runs and steals 40 bases in the same season.
There has only been 4 players to accomplish this feat in the history of baseball.
The first being Jose Canseco, the master of roids. The other three are Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Alfonso Soriano. Bonds and Rodriguez of course have been linked to the performance enhancing drug as well.
Ortiz, never known as a speedster and a mediocre home run hitter since he was busted for steroids, should have more accurately called his own club the 18/0 club.
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