My Last Manny Man Love Post (Part 1)

September 29, 2008 · Filed Under MLB, RED SOX · 1 Comment 

by the goat… I know, I know I need to let it go, but we have until wednesday before the MLB playoffs start and the Patriots had a bye week (hopefully Tom Brady got #12 sewn up by now so he can stop wearing #16). There is nothing much to talk about, so I am sneaking in my last Manny post (which conviently has two parts).

Manny opened up a bit in an interview with T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times recently and the big picture is starting to develop. It is hard to piece it all together living under the spell of the Boston media, so I am going to lay it out for everyone.

Most people here get 90% of their Red Sox “news” from Dan Shaughnessy and Bob Ryan, the two worst reporters in the history of the english language. Bob is just an out of touch toolbag who for the last five years has been on a constant audition for ESPN with his over the top schtick. Dan Shaughnessy should be writing for the National Enquirer. His stories are rarely true and are so sensational that they should have original Batman television show style cartoon captions accompanying them. “Manny ate Terry Francona’s baby!” Kapow!

All of these stories that came out about Manny’s antics, they were leaked by the Red Sox to douches like Shaughnessy by other douches in the Red Sox front office (alot of douching, I know). Namely Larry Luchino. It is what he does when they are about to make a trade involving a beloved player. He did it to Nomar Garciaparra. He leaked stories about him faking an injury to get people to think Nomar had to go. It is a crap tactic and Theo was so pissed over it that he quit and fled Fenway in a gorilla suit. Now I am not saying Manny didn’t want to get traded, I am just saying that the story we were getting was nothing more than Red Sox propaganda filtered by tabloid reporters. Think about it.

As all loyal B.S.P. readers know, I have long professed my undying man love for Manny, so I do not claim to be 100% objective either. I just want to get the other side of the story out there for some of you who don’t read everything you can on the greatest manchild in the history of baseball.

In the interview with Simers Manny made a few key points about the lack of privacy for him in Boston, and how he felt like he was living in a cage. I want to point out that this supposed fire breathing, horrible teammate, never threw one person under the bus by name. He also goes out of his way to say that he loved the fans, he just hated, get ready for the big surprise… Read more

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