No, Eduardo Nunez didn’t say he smokes marijuana with David Ortiz
Mamajuana is something very different.
Did he really just say that on live TV? No, he didn’t.
However, some Red Sox fans may have been understandably confused following Eduardo Nunez’s appearance on the Fox postgame show after the team’s World Series-clinching Game 5 win. In a jovial exchange with retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, the third baseman was asked about the mood inside the team’s clubhouse Sunday before the game.
Nunez said it was generally relaxed.
“You know, we play cards,” he said. “I bring Mamajuana to my house.”
The two Dominican-born baseball players laughed knowingly together. The rest of the Fox Sports studio crew laughed as well, though some a bit less assuredly. Perhaps they were asking themselves the same question many on Twitter asked aloud.
But not to be confused with marijuana, Nunez was referring to Mamajuana, the national cocktail of the Dominican Republic. The often home-brewed drink is a mixture of rum, red wine, and honey soaked with herbs, spices, and even twigs or tree bark.
In fact, Ortiz even posted a video last week of a few Red Sox players playing cards, including Nunez, with a bottle of Mamajuana in hand.
“Mamajuana en la casa,” Ortiz said.
“This is how we do damage,” Nunez added, referring to the team’s official social media hashtag.
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It wouldn’t be the first time the drink made it into the Red Sox clubhouse.
During their historic 2004 World Series run, Manny Ramirez was said to have supplied the team with shots of Mamajuana, though it’s unclear if it was before or after the game. Pedro Martinez told Boston magazine in 2013 that Mamajuana was the spicy liquor, as opposed to Jack Daniels, that began their fabled routine of pregame shots. However, Ortiz has maintained that he only drank them after games.
Either way, it appears that Mamajuana has found its way back to Fenway Park. Subsequently, so has another World Series trophy.
