Now, in a move sure to raise eyebrows, David Ortiz and Rob Gronkowski have entered the music business. Well, sort of.

Many professional athletes are known for their questionable career moves. Michael Jordan was a pretty mediocre baseball player. Curt Schilling’s video game studio went belly-up . And Dennis Rodman’s meetings with North Korea’s dictator haven’t done much about Kim Jong Un’s nukes or his secret labor camps.

The Boston spokes-athletes have recorded four songs for Dunkin’ Donuts, the first of which was released online Sunday. The first single, “Sippin’,” had racked up nearly 5,000 views in the first several hours after being posted to YouTube.


“Do these guys even know how to sing?” a narrator asks in a promo video. It’s a valid question. The lyrics — “summer time, super-nice, everything’s better with Dunkin’ Iced” — aren’t exactly inspired, and Big Papi and Gronk’s voices are auto-tuned beyond recognition. Only a minute long, “Sippin’” features a cup-and-straw solo by Ortiz and a giant coffee cup dancing and cradling a guitar.

Three more songs will be released throughout the summer, and the musical duo’s website show teaser images of the athletes wailing on keyboards and sporting (groan!) cowboy hats. A Dunkin’ spokeswoman says the first song will be available to download for free on June 11.

Jack Newsham can be reached at jack.newsham@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TheNewsHam.