Manny Ramirez
Manny Ramirez arrested
By adamg - 9/12/11 - 8:23 pmAlleged domestic abuse. And here's his Broward County arrest page.
Innocent, etc.
Manny being a kid
By adamg - 4/26/11 - 5:45 amSara Rimer, who first met Manny Ramirez when he was still in high school, tries to make sense of it all:
I don't remember the first time I saw that quicksilver swing. What I remember is what it felt like to be there on that rock-hard artificial surface atop the hill next to the high school, among his euphoric teammates and fans shouting his name, merengue blasting from someone’s boom box in the concrete bleachers behind the third-base line, the major league scouts lined up behind home plate as Manny came up to bat in his baggy black-and-orange secondhand uniform and red cleats and slammed one home run after another, day after day.
No Manny in Fenway on Monday
By adamg - 4/8/11 - 3:26 pm
Manny walks away for good. 2008 photo by Paul Keleher.
Peter Abraham tweets Manny Ramirez has just quit baseball, something about another issue with drug testing.
Photo copyright Paul Keleher. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Manny should come back to Boston more often
By adamg - 6/21/10 - 7:43 amDon't let the broom hit you on the way out.
Bruce Allen does the media roundup, which focuses on Clay Buchholz.
Will Manny Ramirez strike out again with his Ritz condo?
By adamg - 3/17/10 - 8:41 amDan Shaughnessy: The Tim McCarver of Boston sports columnists
By adamg - 5/10/09 - 4:46 pmDuring yesterday's painful Sox loss, Tim McCarver, when he wasn't busy mispronouncing Massachusetts place names and just being Tim McCarver, kept blathering on and on about how Sox fans felt about stuff, as if he actually talks to Sox fans.
Today, Dan Shaughnessy does the same shtick, writing that:
Red Sox Nation is beaming over the news of Manny getting slapped for 50 games for using a banned substance.
Really, Dan? Yes, many people are relieved Manny's no longer on the Sox, but beaming? Is there anybody out there actually happy that Ramirez is now an all-but-convicted steroid user?
Aside from Shank, that is, who once again has somebody to heap hate on now that Curt Schilling is retired?
No tainted Sox love even with Manny in the lineup
By adamg - 5/9/09 - 10:50 amChad Finn explains why, even if Manny were on the juice in 2004 and 2007 - and there's no evidence yet he was - the Sox victories those years were no worse than any other team's titles over the previous ten years (especially the 1999 and 2000 Yankees).
Curt Schilling: Don't blame Mannywood for your own kids' problems
By adamg - 5/8/09 - 4:55 pmSchilling says stop worshiping ball players, just accept the fact that tons of players (but not him, he hastens to add) juiced up, and don't you dare suggest 2004 is now "tainted:"
... Relish in the Halladays, Rolens, Sabathias, Lowells, Counsells, Variteks, Garnetts, Jameses, Bruschis, Vrabels, the Jason Bays of the world. Relish in men of supreme character and tireless work ethic who respect the game and their teammates and suit up every day to leave it all on the field. If 100 more names come out I can still give you my word there are a lot more great men and phenomenal people in the game than not ...
Then go home and raise your own damn kids with your own set of values, integrity and morals. Be accountable to them and responsible for them and stop blaming video games or the 25-year-old kid from the Dominican who can hit a baseball 455 feet but you don't know and never will, for the "problems of today's youth". It starts and ends under your own roof. Your kids idolize the people you allow them to, and believe things you don't refute or discuss, and that's no one's fault but your own.
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Meanwhile, Comcast SportsNet interviews Jonathan Papelbon about Mannygate.
... I don't know who that guy is. He quit on me, he quit on our team ...
This is the deal, regardless of what you take and regardless what you put in your body, every year at Spring Training they give us a long list in Spanish and in English of what you can do and what you can't do. There are no excuses.
Some people really can't stand Bill Simmons
By adamg - 5/8/09 - 8:15 amCameron Martin tells the Sports Guy what he can do with his maudlin back-from-the-future piece about how he has to explain to his kid that everybody on the 2004 Sox juiced up:
Grow a pair, Greenwich boy, and stop acting like a dumb, naive homer.
Dan Kennedy, meanwhile, tries to pinpoint exactly when Manny started shooting steroids taking fertility treatments. He narrows it down to the end of the 2007 season, not sure of the month and day yet.
