{"id":273477,"date":"2026-01-08T04:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273477\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:30:07","slug":"david-ortiz-googly-eyes-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273477\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ortiz, Googly Eyes Eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of them correctly guessed that it was a baseball player, with many pointing to Googly Eyes\u2019 distinctive accent. Jenny guessed former Yankee <strong>Derek<\/strong> <strong>Jeter<\/strong>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/robin_thicke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Robin Thicke<\/strong><\/a> opted for Boston Red Sox\u2019s <strong>Manny<\/strong> <strong>Ramirez<\/strong> before quickly changing his guess to <strong>Pedro<\/strong> <strong>Martinez<\/strong>, leaving Rita to take Manny as her guess. But it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ken_jeong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ken Jeong<\/strong><\/a> who guessed correctly, identifying Googly Eyes as former Boston Red Sox designated hitter <strong>David Ortiz<\/strong>, a.k.a. <strong>Big Papi<\/strong>, who helped the team win the 2004 World Series\u2014their first after 86 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gotta tell you man, that\u2019s a straight up workout boy,&#8221; David told the crowd about his costume after being unmasked. &#8220;I don\u2019t need to go to the gym for about a month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it was so much fun, man. It was so much fun,&#8221; he continued, joking that when it comes to his big number &#8220;Turn Down for What,&#8221; &#8220;I can sing that all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the World Series champion couldn&#8217;t leave the stage without giving the judges one of his signatures lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got something for them,&#8221; he began, &#8220;daaaaaaaaaaa Yankees lose!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But David wasn\u2019t the only star to say goodbye on the first episode. The end of the show teased that the duo of The Croissants were also headed home in a triple elimination, but it left their unmasking for episode two of the season. The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to meet the other mystery celebs who are going on to compete next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of them correctly guessed that it was a baseball player, with many pointing to Googly Eyes\u2019 distinctive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-273477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115857606320782107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}