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My Last Manny Man Love Post (Part 1)

September 29, 2008 · Filed Under MLB, RED SOX 

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… the media.

Here are some of the key statements Manny made in the interview:

“Baseball in Boston is like a Sunday football game, but played every day,” Ramirez said. “We lose in LA, I go to breakfast and people say, ‘Well, you’ll get them tomorrow.’ In Boston, it’s ‘Hey, what’s going on, the Yankees are coming.’ It’s just a different atmosphere. The fans in Boston got your back no matter what, but I’m talking about the people who write all this bull because it means so much to them. If your happiness depends on Boston winning or losing, you have to get a life.”

I could not agree more, if your happiness and moods in life are a direct result of the score of a game you need to rethink your philosophical makeup.

“I would bring my kids to the park [in Boston] and I want my kids to be kids, but there’d be people trying to interview them. That’s so stupid.”

Anyone who disagrees with that is an asshole, period.

Here Simers asked Ramirez about Schilling talking shit about him being a “problem in clubhouse”.

“I don’t wish him anything bad, although it did make me madder and play harder to show everyone who I am,” Ramirez said. “I don’t disrespect or takes shots at anyone. I don’t want someone going to one of my sons and saying your dad is a punk and talks bad about people behind their backs.”

Doesn’t wish anything bad on a guy who went out of his way to talk shit about him. What a prick this guy is!

My point is this, everyone in the world over the age of 12 has been the victim of only one side of a story getting out. Everyone knows there are two sides and we all get pissed when we hear something untrue being said about us without being able to refute it. Manny was the victim of this, except the one side was the Red Sox PR machine and The Boston Globe. Imagine if someone who disliked you and wanted to smear your name had that type of power behind them?

Manny got pissed, can you say that you wouldn’t have?

This concludes part one of the Last Manny Post, check in tomorrow for Part 2 titled “It’s all Scott Boras’ Fault”

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One Response to “My Last Manny Man Love Post (Part 1)”

  1. The Hambino on September 30th, 2008 3:41 pm

    Oh how i still love Manny let me count the ways.Oh yea when he leads the Dodgers into Fenway in the Series you punk ass bitches who wanted to suck Mannys Dick for 8 years better give him a standing OVATION!Go SOX!

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