Manny Ramirez

Manny Ramirez arrested

adamg — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:23:22 +0000

Alleged domestic abuse. And here's his Broward County arrest page.

Innocent, etc.

Manny being a kid

adamg — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:45:38 +0000

Sara 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

adamg — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:26:44 +0000

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

adamg — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:43:54 +0000

Don't let the broom hit you on the way out.

Bruce Allen does the media roundup, which focuses on Clay Buchholz.

Boo Manny?

adamg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:41:27 +0000

Will Manny Ramirez strike out again with his Ritz condo?

adamg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:41:27 +0000

John Keith reports he's put his condo at the Ritz Carlton back on the market, for $7.9 million, or $1 million less than the first time he tried offloading it - in 2002. Maybe he should sweeten the deal by throwing in a grill.

Dan Shaughnessy: The Tim McCarver of Boston sports columnists

adamg — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:46:28 +0000

During 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

adamg — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:50:13 +0000

Chad 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

adamg — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:55:09 +0000

Schilling 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

adamg — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:15:07 +0000

Cameron 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.

Say it ain't so, Manny

adamg — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:05:07 +0000

Manny being A-Rod? Manny Ramirez will be suspended 50 games for positive drug test, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Manny being melanoma

adamg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:49:37 +0000

The Herald posts some excerpts from a Jonathan Papelbon interview with Esquire, including one in which he called MbM a "cancer."

Red is especially enamored of the Bot's claims he wouldn't be afraid to lay down some smack even on David Ortiz if need be.

Does Manny Ramirez realize there's a recession on?

adamg — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:59:14 +0000

Michael DiMella wonders if Scott Boras is in charge of selling off the dreaded one's condo at the Ritz, because it just went on sale for $1.6 million more than it did the last time Manny tried offloading it:

... No takers the first time...ok, let's just bump the price 23%! Hmmm.....Sounds an awful lot like Scott Boras is now advising Manny on real estate deals as well. If at first you don't get the offer you want, just raise your price! ...

Team finally offers Manny a contract

adamg — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:29:37 +0000

Worcester offers contract to Manny Ramirez:

Worcester, MA January 27, 2009 -- The Worcester Tornadoes Professional Baseball Team has offered a contract to free agent outfielder Manny Ramirez for two years worth $24,000. The deal would pay the 12-time Major League Baseball All-Star approximately $3,000 during each month of the Can-Am Baseball Season. Unlike Major League Baseball, the Can-Am League operates with a salary cap, and the deal for Ramirez would be on par with other veterans in the league.

Via Daily Worcesteria.

Leave Manny be

adamg — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:38:39 +0000

Sure, he wasn't perfect, but let's not forget what he achieved while he was here, Denton says, wagging his finger at all the new Manny haters out there:

Last time I checked, Manny Ramirez hadn't killed anyone. He wasn't named in the Mitchell Report for pumping his body full of steroids. He didn't cheat on his taxes or his wife. He never even rolled his vehicle over on the way home from the strip joint. So how did he become the most hated player in baseball? ...