Media morons and Manny Ramirez

By adamg on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 12:48pm

Bruce Allen discusses that Manny quote (you know the one, the one that's been repeated about 67,000 times already) and why all it proves is that Manny should never talk to the media again.

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Manny (Thankfully) Being Manny

By Suldog on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 1:16pm.

It's because of an attitude like Manny's that the Sox came back in 2004, and have a chance to do so again this year. In a game like baseball, the looser you are, the better. It's the guys who get all wound up who have less of a chance of getting the job done. Compare Dustin Pedroia to Mark Bellhorn, for instance.

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http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

Manny being mellow

By sam on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 1:27pm.

I still think that a champion needs that fire in his belly, the drive to win. Of course, Manny did win in 2004 so maybe I'm wrong...

http://postgame.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/manny-ramirez-likes-to-lose-kills-puppies/

Baseball is a different game...

By Suldog on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 1:35pm.

... from football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and just about all others I can think of at the moment. Whereas in most sports intensity can be channeled into useful aggression, in baseball there is no such outlet for most players. Even the most obvious aggressive act - batting - requires a looseness to allow for adjustment. A strictly fastball pitcher can use some nervousness to his advantage, sometimes, by throwing "nervous hard", but even that more often than not results in overthrowing.

The game is far too contingent upon reflexes to allow for tightness.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

Check out Yanksfan vs.

By DC on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 2:22pm.

Check out Yanksfan vs. Soxfan here:

http://yanksfansoxfan.typepad.com/ysfs/2007/10/a-n...

Quoted from the NYTimes, 1991:

"In Washington Heights, people are already telling Manny Ramirez stories. He will be remembered as the young man who worked harder than anyone else. He woke up at 4:30 A.M. to fit in his roadwork and practice before school, spent his weekday afternoons with his high school team and weekends in Brooklyn with his sandlot team. In the evenings, he swung a bat over and over in his apartment (without ever breaking a window). ..."

That's fire in the belly. Manny has it.

What's wrong with a half full glass?

By Rozzie Fan on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 1:40pm.

I have to say I'm pretty outraged by this coverage. It was a perfectly reasonable statement. Now maybe, if we were playing the Yankees, it just might be the end of the world. But really, I can't get too upset by the prospect of Cleveland in the World Series.

Management should thank (specify deity here) for Manny

By Parker Posey on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 3:31pm.

Henry, Werner and Lucchino are doing their best to bleed every fan of their money. Cold, calculating businessmen. And that's not a bad thing but fans like to get warm and fuzzy over the dilapidated shell that is Fenway, enter Manny to lighten the atmosphere. I think he is wonderful. Plus, in local bars there are 50-year-old guys named Fitzy and Dominic who have strokes when he says these things. Just beautiful.

Leave Manny Alone!

By Othemts on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 4:33pm.

That's all I have to say.