Outtakes from a Boston Globe interview with David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox:

Did you go vegan or vegetarian or try anything like that?

No, no, no. I like flavor. But I stopped a lot of things that I know had a lot to do with not losing weight, like the drinking, eating sweet stuff, eating fried things. Sugar is pretty bad. Everything has sugar pretty much, even if it doesn’t taste sweet.

First, he may know a lot about baseball, and be one of the all-time great Red Sox sluggers, but vegetarian foods actually have more flavor than meats, until you burn them, and add dangerous additives such as MSG, salt, and dairy.

Second, even he knows the dangers of sugar.