Over the course of seeing 32,181 pitches, stepping into the batter’s box 8,070 times and appearing in 1,875 games for the Red Sox, David Ortiz has pretty much seen it all. Pitchers who owned him, crazy teammates, aloof general managers, friendly managers — you name it, Ortiz has experienced it. So with that in mind, here’s a series of quick hits from Ortiz on a potpourri of topics that he’s dealt with since first joining the Red Sox in February of 2003:

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Crazy teammates = naked teammates:

Kevin Millar – “Everything he did was crazy. He’d go out naked around the clubhouse. He would walk around naked right next to Pedro – ding, dong Pedro Martinez.”

Johnny Damon – “Naked pull-ups in the clubhouse. Crazy.”

Manny Ramirez – “He would do crazy things, if you insisted that he do them. If you kept on pushing him, he would do it. Like, walk around naked, too.”

Julian Tavarez – “Crazy. Very crazy. Mucho loco.”

Craziest teammate by far: Alfredo Aceves

“Oh my god. Him. Aceves was NASA crazy compared to Julian Tavarez. You know that when you’re ‘NASA crazy,’ you are out there. That one game he showed up 20 minutes before first pitch, we were all, ‘Who the hell does that?’ Think about it. You are the starting pitcher, there’s a 7 o’clock game and it’s 6:30, nobody knows where the hell you are. That’s the craziest (expletive) I’ve ever seen. I almost (expletive) myself. We’ve got no starting pitcher. We sent (Franklin) Morales to bullpen. Then here comes Aceves. He’s wearing his uniform, he came straight from his house.”

Favorite teammate: Pedro Martinez

“The greatest I ever had.”

On Curt Schilling

“He was a veteran already, so he had his own way to do things. I didn’t mind.”

On Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez:

“Good guys, but different. With teammates, I don’t want you to be like I want you to be, I will like you the way you are. As long as you respect me, I will respect you. That was the case with both of them. I loved Adrian. We had good communication. I had good communication with CC but me and Adrian used to click more often.

“Adrian had good seasons here, no question, but they didn’t give us what the team was expecting. CC had his issues with a lot of things going on. I know he could have done it better but things didn’t work out at the time.”

On drinking Manny Ramirez’s Mama Juana 2004 playoff concoction:

“Very interesting, those Mama Juana shots. But not pregame. Only after the game.”

Who did he hit his first home run off of as a Red Sox?

“No idea.” (Answer: Mickey Callaway, 14th-inning game-winner, April 27, 2003, in Anaheim)

First home run in big leagues?

“That I remember. Julio Santana. I remember that because he was my (winter ball) roommate. I gave him a lot of (expletive deleted) about that afterwards.”

On his relationship with Red Sox managers:

Grady Little – “He believed in me. He kept me patient. He told me my time would come, so be ready.”

Terry Francona – “A great manager, gave us a lot of hope. I had a great relationship with Tito.”

Bobby Valentine – “Not so good, not so well. And you know the rest of the story.”

John Farrell – “Great. A guy that has been able to keep us peaceful and positive. He makes clear what his point is, and you go from there.”

On how his relationship with current president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski is different than what he had with GMs Theo Epstein and Ben Cherington:

“Theo was in his own world most of the time, same with Ben. They had their own personality, their own way to do things. I guess that was their way. I never had a relationship with them. I have a better relationship with Dombrowski right now than what I had with Theo and Ben. I always believed there was a better way to communicate with players than that. I love Dave. The minute he walked in, the minute he became our GM, he started building a relationship with the players which is something that gets you confident. Last year, he showed interest from me in what we need and what he needs to do to get us better.”

On why his 27 career strikeouts against Mike Mussina, most against any pitcher, needs clarification:

“I had problems with him the first few at bats, because I only saw him once or twice a year. But once I came here, I started hitting him better, way better. I think I had at least 12 or 14 punchouts first 20 at-bats against him. After that, I figured him out.” (In his first 20 at-bats vs. Mussina, Ortiz went hitless. In his final 42 at-bats, he had 15 hits, a .357 batting average and 14 strikeouts.)

On Baltimore left-handed reliever Brian Matusz, against whom he still struggles (.138 batting average, 4-29, 13 strikeouts, no home runs):

“I don’t know why he gives me trouble because I see the ball pretty dang good off of him. Trust me, I don’t think he’s the toughest guy I ever faced. I have faced a lot of pitchers tougher than him. He gives me a lot of pitches to hit, too. I guess I have a hard time picking up the ball because he hides it pretty well. But it’s not like he’s got this nasty stuff that you can’t hit.”

On former Tampa Bay 6-foot-9 left-hander Mark Hendrickson and other pitchers who gave him trouble:

“(Hendrickson) fooled me a lot. We all had those pitchers. They don’t have to be that special to get you out. I remember I asked Barry Bonds one time, ‘Who was the one guy who gave you a hard time?’ And he said, ‘Jesse Orosco of the Mets, I used to hate facing him.’ It happens. Those guys coming out of the bullpen that you’re facing once in awhile, I don’t pay much attention to them – I pay attention to the starter more.

“As you get more experience you start to figure things out. All of them give you a hard time. You hit well off of them, but I always believed they give you a hard time, and it will go back and forth.”

Favorite place to hit?

“Yankee Stadium.”

New or old Yankee Stadium?

“Both of them. I see the ball well there, the dimensions are the same. I see the ball well in New York.

A bad place to hit:

“Fenway, day game. Not so good. That shadow that gets in between the pitcher and the hitter. Horrible.”

A favorite HR?

“Not really.”

Favorite road city?

“I never get to do anything anyways. You’re not going to believe this but as I got older, I did less and less and less. I’m at the field by noon when I’m on the road. I don’t get to enjoy anything because after the game I go back to my room. When I was younger I used to do more things, you know, but not anything crazy. Go to eat. Besides Boston, New York has a lot of choices. Miami, Chicago. Tampa’s not a bad place.”

Of his three titles with the Red Sox, which was his favorite?

“‘04. Definitely ‘04.”

Why?

“The first one in a long time.”