What it must be like to be Manny

BILL LAMBERT

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Wednesday, July 30. 2008

I didn't get the whole Manny flap during the past week or so. Seems to me like Manny only described his contract situation as it is and voiced an honest assessment. If you take all that was said in summary, Manny said that if the Sox want to pick up his option, he'd be fine with that. If they choose not to pick his option and trade him, he'd be okay with that, too.

What else could he say, in all honesty. Was Manny just being too honest?

This is another one of these media fueled controversies. No surprise, Dan Shaughnessy of the Globe--separated at birth from his twin, Bozo the Clown--sticks his pudgy puss smack in the middle of it. Is there anyone out there in Beantown nott sick and tired of Danny-Boy's tirades against minority athletes?

He's as predictable as Rush Limbaugh, and twice as lame.

Oh, Dan can sure write. He puts the words together quite well. Maybe too well... stuck on himself, he can't resist making up stories when there's no story there.

In Dan's defense, every one in the media these days does the same thing... they make up news and then try to put themselves in the middle of it.

Some defense that is.

Manny Ramirez, in the outfield during warmups, practicing catching flies with his tongue. Manny will someday be elected into the Red Sox Goofball Hall of Fame, joining former Goofball Greats Jimmy Piersall, Gene Conley, Pumpsie Green, Bill the Spaceman Lee, Roger Moret and Bernie Carbo.

It will be a sad day in Boston, if and when Manny Ramirez moves on. He is one of the top 25 offensive players of all time, accomplished through hard work and dedication to the art of hitting. Manny is never intimidated at the plate, never 'down in the count', ever the threat, and deadly in the clutch. A true free spirit, one of the best at doing what he's paid to do, Manny is Bob Dylan, John Lennon, George Carlin... an artist.

Think of what it' must be like to be Manny, sitting way up there in the drivers seat of life. What would you do if you were the best?

Posted by Bill Lambert in Beantown Fan Attic, Red Sox at 10:17 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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