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Manny: The Bangladeshi viewpoint
By adamg on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 10:05am
Paul McMorrow gets an earful from a Bangladeshi cabbie who drove him home from last night's Meltdownsuzaka:
... These guys forget where they came from. I'm from a place like that. Dollars, man - that's a lot of money in some places. If I were him, if I could hit like that, I wouldn't playing around for $20 million. All I'd need is $1 million over two years. Why do you need more than that? ...
Meanwhile, Adam Hart suggests Manny-hating Peter Gammons should wipe the spittle off his face and stop claiming Ramirez takes himself out of the lineup against hard throwers, by researching each of Manny's off days.
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How much money does Manny make for the Sox
I bet he grosses the owners $10-20 million for every million of his salary. He should demand everything that he is worth. If he didn't take $20 mil where do you think that money would go?
My Response to Adam Hart
Let me see if I get this right? As long as the Sox win when Manny’s out (whether it’s justified or not), then it doesn’t matter that his real reason for being out was that he’s dogging it? That’s actually the exact same line of thought behind Gammo’s write-up! Except he points out that Manny has done plenty more besides just sitting out a few games to demonstrate that his attitude is degrading. Gammons rightly says that we win with him, great, but it means selling ourselves short on integrity to let a guy run over the team in the clubhouse with phantom injuries or whatever else comes up that lets him, say, visit with out-of-town visitors from opposing ballclubs.
If Hart's only point is to show that he sat out for the fastballers AND other guys too, then he only served to extend Gammons’ point that Manny rests whenever he needs it, whenever he feels like it, AND whenever another OF needs some playing time. Hell, this season he’s been extensively (31 of his 98 games this year) used as the DH(!) while Papi has been out…and then he still needs days off in the midst of all that?
One of Adam's comments is that he played the All-Star game only to sit out just afterwards as a trade-off? Whoa, all 2 ABs! Rough life! There are 2 days that no major league sports are played, right? Before and After the All-Star Game…those don’t count as days off for Manny? So, I guess July 23rd (against King Felix) really was warranted to make up for having toughed it out at the All-Star Game.
All in all, his “in-depth” analysis of Manny's off days is pretty shallow.