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SAN DIEGO -- In the fourth inning of Tuesdays All-Star Game, with baseball memories unfolding all around him at Petco Park, David Ortiz entered a small auxiliary press room with metal lockers and folding chairs. For the next 20 minutes, he held the room in his sway with each cackle and heartfelt reminiscence. He talked about his friendship with Jose Fernandez, his respect for the young players wholl come after him, and explained for the umpteenth time that he does not expect to be sitting on a beach holding an ice-cold beer a year from now and magically get the itch to return.It was a wonderfully personal glimpse of the David Ortiz that Major League Baseball will spend an entire summer embracing on his farewell tour of big league parks. But deep down you wondered: Why wasnt he still on the field?Ortizs 10th and final All-Star Game had all the ingredients for a poignant goodbye -- except time and exposure. After giving his teammates a pregame pep talk and tipping his cap to the Petco Park crowd along the first-base line, he grounded out on a hard shot to first base against Johnny Cueto in his first plate appearance and walked against Fernandez in his second.Big Papis final line: 0-for-1 on 15 pitches, followed by about twice that many dugout hugs.And just like that, Ortiz was gone from sight and headed out of town. For fans who might have wanted one more swing or smile to savor, the whole thing was too brief and stage-managed for comfort.As Ortiz explained in hindsight, this is the way things were mapped out from the outset. He typically gets a couple of at-bats in the All-Star Game, and the plan Tuesday called for him to make two plate appearances before being replaced by Torontos Edwin Encarnacion at designated hitter. American League manager Ned Yost would stray from the plan only if Ortiz failed to reach base his first two times up.Ortiz knows how difficult it is to make an All-Star team, and he has too much reverence for this stage to try to hog the spotlight over four or five at-bats and nine innings. In Ortizs eyes, the spotlight belonged to everyone Tuesday. That was part of the message he tried to convey in his pregame speech.The All-Star Game is a moment that you want to give everybody the opportunity to go out there and play, Ortiz said. You dont get to the All-Star Game just because you have a good name and just because you come from a good family. Its a lot of hard work.There was a tinge of drama beforehand when Fernandez -- whom Ortiz lovingly refers to as my boy -- approached Big Papi the day before the game and suggested some shenanigans might be in store. He might just feed Ortiz three straight heaters and go power against power for the sake of posterity.The mood quickly changed from drama to slapstick comedy when Ortiz stepped to the plate in the third inning and Fernandez improvised on the script.He told me yesterday, You know what? Im going to come with my best fastball. I want to see if you can hit it, Ortiz said. So he throws me a changeup the first pitch. So Im looking at him, and he was like, It was the catchers fault. He called it. Then its 3-2 and he throws me a slider. Im like, Whats going on? Do you want me to break my back or something? Ortiz squawked at Fernandez a little bit on his way to first base, and it was reminiscent of the old days, when the All-Star Game was played strictly for pride, and weirdness could erupt out of nowhere. Those were the days when Barry Bonds could playfully lift Torii Hunter off the ground for stealing a home run from him, or Randy Johnson had the freedom to throw a ball to the screen and nearly send John Kruk into cardiac arrest, or Larry Walker could turn his helmet around and bat from the right side against the Big Unit for laughs.Now that home-field advantage in the World Series is at stake, impromptu moments in the Midsummer Classic feel conflicted or restrained. In 2012, when Justin Verlander said he threw his fastball as hard as he could and tried to let it eat for the entertainment value, the declaration was at odds with the image MLB was trying to convey. And when Adam Wainwright admitted that he grooved a pitch to Derek Jeter in the Captains final All-Star Game in 2014, all sorts of outrage erupted on social media.So now we have Ortiz and his abbreviated goodbye, which didnt make a whole lot of sense given that he came into the game with 22 home runs and an otherworldly 1.107 OPS. For sake of comparison, when a fading Kobe Bryant appeared in his final NBA All-Star Game in February, he hoisted 11 shots and played more minutes than any Western Conference player not named Stephen Curry. Fans in Toronto saw more of Bryant than they did of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Chris Paul. Fans in San Diego on Tuesday night saw two at-bats from David Ortiz, at which point he headed down a runway and put his larger-than-life personality on display in a glorified locker room.Marketing experts might say this was a case of baseball failing to seize the moment. 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Its almost disheartening, because I work very hard and its a very competitive field internationally, and people in our country just dont really know about it.Im a three-time champion and should, in my eyes, be kind of all over the place. But there are still people who are like, I didnt even know you guys were in the Olympics. Yep, we are. Its been a few cycles now.I absolutely hate the statement Youre too pretty to wrestle. I think people used to view female athletes as very butch, masculine -- you kind of had to disregard your femininity to excel at an elite sport. Now its just a different world.With heavyweight wrestling, people are expecting this Helga type of woman, obese and going out there on the mat to try to smash peoples heads. Its so much more than that -- the weight is really low, so its about technique. Its skill, strength, power and executing that in a very precise way.When I talk to young girls, I tell them you can have the best of both worlds. You are allowed to be a female and be considered beautiful and still be an athlete and still be badass in that realm.I would hear, years later, Yeah, that guy was afraid of you in high school. Why? Im nice! I just dont understand where that came from. Its like saying a boxer just goes around hitting people all the time. Ive never been in a fight, Ive never hit anybody. I never challenged anyone at a party. So I dont know why that fear exists: Oh, she can beat me up if she wanted to! Yeah, but ... I dont really fight people.I really dont even consider myself so much of a fighter when I get onto the mat. Im more of a calm person who goes out there and has better technique and better strength and skill than somebody -- theres a lot more strategy that goes into it than people realize. Theres what Id call calculated aggression, but yeah, my immediate reaction if I get too upset or too frustrated with something is to cry. 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Then my weightlifting coach kindly put me on a new, very intensive program for upper-back strength, and I gained half an inch on each side of my back. I had to really hold my breath throughout the night, and at the end of the night I busted the dress dancing. The whole side of the dress was just shredded. I wont have to fake like I was ever going to be wearing that dress again!Theres definitely something to be said about wrestling at your natural weight. Im now wrestling a lot closer to my natural weight class, and Im getting to focus more on wrestling and just getting better and making my body stronger, rather than constantly fighting to make my body small enough. Everyone is so focused on losing weight -- your body likes to fit within a certain range, and if you force it to go one way or the other, its difficult.I had to cut almost 30 pounds for the 2012 Olympic team trials. Before the matches, I was eating dinner with my mom and I just stopped and was holding my jaw. She was like, Oh, did you get hit in one of your matches? No, my jaw is sore from not chewing food for the last three weeks before this event. I was just eating protein shakes for every meal. The realization that I hadnt chewed and used those muscles in so long that they would cramp up and get sore halfway through a meal ... it was almost heartbreaking, because why would somebody do that to their body?I can be so stubborn when it comes to rehab. I dislocated my knee in 2010 at a World Cup event, and over the course of rehab, I didnt realize that I was basically dislocating it every day. One day I was driving back to Denver to see my family, and when I went to press on the gas pedal, my kneecap popped out. I had to hold it in place the whole way to Denver -- just cursing my sport and my whole situation the entire time.Its amazing how limited I still am on that side. Eventually, I had surgery, but I had to accept that my leg was never going to be the same leg it was. And I think every athlete goes through that moment when they realize that the arm they broke is never going to be 100 percent but that they can still win with it. I think thats what has made me such a great athlete -- I dont have to be 100 percent, I just have to be good enough to win. Finding that new normal just takes some time and some coping.I dont have cauliflower ear. My dad was adamant that I wear my headgear growing up. Thats because I was born with a dysfunctional eustachian tube, which connects your throat to your ear canal. Most people have a certain degree of tilt, but mine doesnt have enough tilt to drain properly. Ive had 15 ear surgeries, and Im partially deaf on my left side just because I have so much scar tissue buildup.I want to impart some dreams to young girls who havent had opportunities in the past. Boys really have a leg up on us because they have these professional leagues that they can dream about. So if I can be like Serena Williams or like some of these main stars out there who are being iconic and groundbreaking and are role models for this next generation, it would be an honor and a blessing. ' ' '