Watch: Pedroia, Gronk slay at Big Papi roast

Warning: Story/video contains coarse language.

The Boston Red Sox will bestow a great honor upon newly retired icon David Ortiz on Friday, hanging his number No. 34 from the right-field facade at Fenway Park along with the franchise's other all-time greats.

Before that happens, though, his buddies had to get their chirps in.

Ahead of the highly anticipated ceremony, Boston luminaries - from Dustin Pedroia to Rob Gronkowski to Bill Burr - gathered at the House of Blues on Lansdowne Street on Thursday night to roast Ortiz.

The video is full of great zingers and hilarious anecdotes, but this one, from Pedroia (11:40), stands out:

It was in 2015, so I'd already played with David for, I don't know, nine years, and I hit right in front of him for nine years. I was kind of struggling at the plate. We go on deck - we're playing the Indians at home - and the umpire went to go pee, so the catcher blocked the ball and the ball kind of rolled over, and the catcher comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, what's up, Dustin?' I go, 'Hey, what's up, man?' David walks over and goes, 'What the fuck did he call you?' I go, 'What?' He goes, 'What'd he call you?' I said, 'Dustin.' He goes, 'Well, why'd he call you that?' I go, 'That's my fucking name.' He goes, 'Oh, is that right?' I'm like, 'Yeah, bro. I've played 1,600 games with you. They've actually said it 5,000 fucking times. Now batting, number 15, Dustin Pedroia. And he goes, 'I thought it was Pee-Wee.' So now the umpire - this is dead serious - now the umpire comes back and I go - I'm standing there; I haven't gotten a hit in a week - and I'm looking at him, I go, 'You thought my parents would name me fucking Pee-Wee? And he's just looking at me; we're having a conversation. The umpire's yelling at me. The catcher's laughing because he can hear, kind of, what he's saying, which is, I don't know. That's my favourite.