This is the best soundbite in sports history

As he did so many instances throughout his legendary Boston profession, David Ortiz confronted a succesful area of rivals and emerged victorious.

After 10 days, greater than 10,000 votes forged, and scores of spirited water-cooler debates raging up and down the Japanese Seaboard (or at the very least the New England portion of it), readers have settled on a champion to our 2026 March Insanity-themed bracket query: What is the best soundbite in Boston sports history?

The winner, by a considerably staggering margin, is David Ortiz reassuring the 2013 Fenway Park crowd that, “That is our f****** metropolis.”

The soundbite in its entirety encapsulates a lot of the greatness of Boston sports activities — emotional resonance, capability to ship the surprising, and selling a spirit of inextricable neighborhood — that it’s hardly stunning Ortiz’s speech gained.

As Boston.com columnist Chad Finn appropriately recognized in his recent piece looking back at the 2013 moment, “David Ortiz got here via, not solely when the Pink Sox wanted him most, however when Boston did. Each different quote on this bracket is enjoying for second.”

Outcomes primarily confirmed this declaration. Not solely did the Ortiz entry garner the only biggest variety of votes for any particular person spherical (totaling 2,796 within the first spherical), but it surely additionally gained by the only biggest margin of victory over one other entry (doing so in opposition to Larry Lucchino’s still-iconic “Evil Empire” quote within the second spherical).

But for all of Ortiz’s finally clear-cut path to the winner’s circle, the 2026 Boston.com bracket delivered some unprecedented upsets. Kevin Millar’s “Don’t allow us to win immediately” emerged from Eleventh-seeded obscurity to make a run all the way in which to the championship spherical.

Poignantly (given the quote and context), Millar staged an unbelievable collection of upsets, toppling higher-seeds like Kevin Garnett’s “Something is feasible” and Rick Pitino’s inimitable “Larry Chicken’s not strolling via that door.”

It’s the primary time that neither of the highest two seeds in web site’s annual bracket failed to succeed in the ultimate. In 2026, Boston.com readers voted for extra chaos, however nonetheless made an iconic alternative ultimately to as soon as once more cement Ortiz as a winner.