Manny Ramirez

Bart · Oct 19, 2007

Mr. Hustle he is not.A poster boy for the style over substance, self indulgent, Latin player.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=ArUUq2GnuGGPDlX0QTB4z WkRvLYF?gid=271018105

A day after he rankled Red Sox fans by saying "Who cares?" if Boston were to lose, the enigmatic slugger struck back.

Ramirez sent Sabathia's first pitch to center, where Sizemore went back to the wall. But as he reached up, Ramirez's shot caromed back onto the field.

Ortiz scored easily, but Ramirez, thinking his shot was long gone, was only rounding first when the Indians retrieved the ball. Boston manager Terry Francona argued it should have been a two-run homer, but after a brief meeting, the umpires kept Ramirez at first.

Slow-motion TV replays were inconclusive, and the ground rules at Jacobs Field state that a ball must completely clear the yellow line at the top of the wall for it to be a homer.

Whatever the outcome, it was Manny being Manny -- again.

The funky, fun-loving outfielder irritated some of the Indians when he posed to admire a homer in Game 4, even though his 451-foot shot had only brought Boston within 7-3.

Edited by: Bart

nhl411 · Oct 19, 2007

ehh I really thought that his quote was misrepresented, I saw it as him trying to get across that he and the team was relaxed and confident and honestly even though he can be spacey and give weird quotes like this one, he really just seems to me to be an odd, quirky guy who is off in his own world and likes his privacy. Hell as a Boston fan (and someone who grew up with him as one of my favorite players) I'm probably a little biased but I really don't have any problem with Manny, he's clutch and there are far worse people out there.

edit: I was also way to pumped about us destroying Sabathia for the second straight time (if he gets the Cy Young over Beckett I'm going to puke) to worry about anything else.Edited by: nhl411

Bear-Arms · Oct 20, 2007

He's right. Who cares? It's only a game and fans should realize that. However, he does get paid to play that game and he should care about his job. I seen him on ESPN and it looked like he was tired of answering stupid media questions. I won't get on him for that.

Bart · Oct 20, 2007

I've been watching the Sox - Indians game this evening. Manny Ramirez presents a pathetic image of a major league ballplayer. His hair, demeanor, and ill fitting uniform are better suited for a clown, or circus act.

Bear-Arms · Oct 21, 2007

You can say all you want about the guys character but he'll still go down as one of the best power hitters to ever play the game.

Tom Iron · Oct 21, 2007

Bear-Arms

A bum by any other name is stil a bum!

Tom Iron...

Don Wassall · Oct 21, 2007

Bart said:
I've been watching the Sox - Indians game this evening. Manny Ramirez presents a pathetic image of a major league ballplayer. His hair, demeanor, and ill fitting uniform are better suited for a clown, or circus act.

The word clown aptly describes him. It's only in the past generation that society, and his white teammates, would allow such an a-hole to carry on the way he does. A few beat-downs and a minimum wage job at Taco Bell for a year is what he needs to wise him up a bit.

Bear-Arms · Oct 23, 2007

Don Wassall said:
Bart said:

I've been watching the Sox - Indians game this evening. Manny Ramirez presents a pathetic image of a major league ballplayer. His hair, demeanor, and ill fitting uniform are better suited for a clown, or circus act.

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The word clown aptly describes him. It's only in the past generation that society, and his white teammates, would allow such an a-hole to carry on the way he does. A few beat-downs and a minimum wage job at Taco Bell for a year is what he needs to wise him up a bit.

I'm not saying the way he carries himself on and off the field is good for major league baseball. I just don't think it diminishes the fact that he's a good hitter.

Van_Slyke_CF · May 7, 2009

Manny Ramirez has just been suspended for 50 GAMES for failing a drug test. He says it was just a mix-up concerning some prescribed medication, and not for steroids.

LIAR

Manny Ramirez's bat never slows down, even though he's in his late 30s. WHY?

guest301 · May 7, 2009

50 games huh! Hurray! Tired of the whole "Manny just being Manny" crapola, turns out there is nothing unique about him, just another ballplayer using drugs. This should take the wind out of the LA Dodgers sails.Edited by: guest301

Riddlewire · May 7, 2009

I think it's safe to assume that MOST Dominican-born players, especially those from Santo Domingo, have at one time been juicers. They grow up doing it. That's how they get to the majors in the first place. They go back home in the offseason and resume their steroid and HGH use to stay in shape and build muscle mass. That's why so many of them have incredible starts to the season.
Hopefully, science will advance to the point where HGH use can be detected in recent users (since most accounts report that it's far more powerful than steroids for baseball purposes). Of course, that will also require weekly mandatory testing for all players. Which Don Fehr will never allow.

white is right · May 7, 2009

Geez a guy looking like a cross between a rottweiler and Bob Marley does PED's..... I would have never guessed..

Edited by: white is right

Colonel_Reb · May 7, 2009

I'm glad he got caught!

Van_Slyke_CF · May 7, 2009

So it sounds like it wasn't a steroid or HGH, but just something to help his nads regenerate after steroid use.

Just a little something to raise testosterone levels-not that it would help him on the field

-as he edges closer to the end of his career.

A little chemical enhancement that he and his doctor thought he could get away with as he tries to rake in the final $45 million of his career through 2010.

It speaks volumes when you consider that Jose Canseco has been about the only honest power-hitting Hispanic ballplayer of the past two decades.

Oh, what cries of discrimination will we hear in the next decade when frauds like Manny, Sammy and A-Rod are kept out of the Hall of Fame?Edited by: Van_Slyke_CF

Tom Iron · May 8, 2009

It's interesting that with so many blacks, it's only a matter of time until they do whatever idiotic thing they're going to do. The only question is, just what it's going to be. In this jerks particular case, it's some drug. Could've been anything else as well, from sticking up a liquor store to fare beating to molesting a puppy, etc. Only a matter of time.

Tom Iron...

Bart · May 8, 2009

Tom Iron said:
It's interesting that with so many blacks, it's only a matter of time until they do whatever idiotic thing they're going to do. The only question is, just what it's going to be. In this jerks particular case, it's some drug. Could've been anything else as well, from sticking up a liquor store to fare beating to molesting a puppy, etc. Only a matter of time.

Tom Iron...

Sooooo true.

Don Wassall · Jun 1, 2009

All time ass clown Manny Ramirez, in the midst of a 50 game suspension for juicing, is currently 4th in fan voting among NL outfielders for the All Star game. This has to be a new all time low for the DWFs.

The caste clowns on ESPN's Baseball Tonight must think there's a chance the DWFs will come through and vote Ramirez on as a starter because that possibility was a topic of discussion on tonight's show. Chris Singleton wrote a prospective letter that he thinks Ramirez should issue, telling the fans to vote for more worthy outfielders. Given the DWFs'

endless infatuation withblack ass clowns, buffoons and criminals, that's hardly likely to deter them.

Peter Gammons

intoned that baseball should use the All Star game to celebrate its young stars, specifically mentioning only non-white ones by name.

Edited by: Don Wassall

white is right · Jun 1, 2009

Torre has suggested that Manny should pass if he is voted in. The scene (if he is close to being elected) could resemble the WKRP episode where Carlson had tv ads where he urged voters don't vote for me. They also did this in the movie Brewster's Millions....

Don Wassall · Jul 24, 2009

Harmon Killebrew, a tremendous power hitter and class act who is now all but forgotten by the baseball world, took some good jabs at Manny Ramirez and the "records" in baseball's steroids era in this article.

All one has to do is look at how Ramirez was welcomed back by the vast majority of the DWFs and the media to realize that the career records of the cheats will be allowed to stand, and most of them will go into the Hall of Fame. Most DWF and media vituperation is reserved for Mark McGwire (who was an elite power hitter from his rookie year) and Roger Clemens (who was an elite pitcher from day one). For Hall of Fame a-holes like Ramirez and Sheffield and "fallen heroes" like "A-Rod," there is little genuine anger. As long as you're black (or at least not white in the case of baseball), you can get away with anything short of murder and no grudges are held, and in the case of at least one football player, even murder accusations are not enough to stem the love of the DWFs or slow the corporate endorsements.

Killebrew, in rare display of anger, takes swing at drug cheats in pro baseball

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/127516/

Don Wassall · Oct 8, 2009

Los Angeles Times sports columnist Steve Lopez is giving away his World Series tickets (assuming the Dodgers make it there; go Cards!) because he doesn't like Manny Ramirez. He is giving the tickets to the writer of the best "50-word sermon" directed to Ramirez, who he calls a "loafing slugger."

Lopez's descriptions of the DWFs and their endless manlove for Ramirez should strike a familiar chord to all here:

"I've got problems with the Dodgers' biggest star and I can't bring myself to pay good money for the privilege of watching a fraud.. . I still can't get over the number of fans who gave him a pass this year. They'd wear their Manny dreadlocks, looking ridiculous, by the way. They'd sit out there in Mannywood so they could be close enough to call his name. Wake up, folks, and take a look at yourselves. Do you really think Ramirez gives a fig about his fans? Ask that question in Boston , where Ramirez got run out of town after dogging it and letting his team down.. .

"You'd think a guy who held out for $45 million over two seasons, and then got suspended for 50 games just when this looked like a magical season, would bend over backward to earn the mercy and respect of teammates and fans. Not Manny."

jaxvid · Oct 8, 2009

Manny Rameriz is all you need to know about what is wrong in sports today. That POS wouldn't even be in the game 30 years ago. I see we have been ragging on this guy since 2007 (at least). What a dirt bag.

Westside · Oct 8, 2009

Don that is a pretty bold statement and action by a major sports writer. Wow. Hopefully Manny(just being a prick) will suck in the playoffs and Dodgers still win the whole thing. Sorry, Blue Fan all of my life.

Don Wassall · Oct 8, 2009

The DWFs further to the north will soon be cheering like crazy when Michael Crabtree makes his debut with the 49ers after holding out until yesterday. I remember when Brady Quinn held out of training camp a few days and the Cleveland Browns' DWFs were ready to crucify him. Just watching the vast difference between how the DWFs treat white athletes and black ones (or just plain non-white ones in Ramirez's case) tells you all you need to know about the possibly incurable sickness gripping White America. Edited by: Don Wassall

j41181 · Oct 8, 2009

My take on this issue is similar to what I have concluded to other sections recently:

Stupid DWF's will admire a sporting figure like Ramirez at drooling point, while told at the same time they cannot emulate and play like him because they are WHITE. How weak and spineless has White America become?

NorCal831 · Oct 9, 2009

i dunno bout DWFs, i would guess that theres much more DMFs (drunk mexican fans) that cheer for manny. remember we are talking about the Los Angeles Dodgers, they dont attract your typical baseball crowd.

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