Manny Ramirez Apologizes For Red Sox Split

Y’all are just screwin’ with me.

The only ex-sox player I still hold animosity towards is Damon, and even then it’s because I’m stuck in my ways. Manny plays for the White Sox now, my fourth most hated team in the league. I’ll probably start booing him, not because of the Boston thing, but because he plays for Chicago.

because he is a future hall of famer..

He may be not a nice person, but he was a great hitter… Besides the MFYs hate him, so an enemy of my enemy is..

I said this in the SBNation comments as well, but wanted to reiterate here…With a contract up in the air, should it surprise anyone that Manny is playing the contrite apologist and will follow it up with a solid run at the plate in a playoff race coming home? He’s playing the PR game to the max and another $40 or $50 million hang in the balance.

that will not change

I’m not even totally sure why. I can look at Manny and all he is done and freely admit how bad it was for the team and yet…at the end of the day I still love him. Damn you manny.

Look at the last 2 lines. Who says that? It’s like he only said the appology so he could justify being a real man.

and after he had left i was no fan of his!

He did run himself out of town and he admits to it and he is sorry. Wasn’t a part of an Epstein and Co plot to ruin the career of a future HOF’er or any of that. Manny was being Manny and doing dumb shit to get himself traded. But he’s sorry, which I can accept, most players don’t have the class to do that.

My take on Manny has always been this: in spite of the goofy antics and the dreads, he’s basically a quiet, private guy. I think he legitimately loves the game, but he wants no part of the public eye or of the baggage of being a celebrity athlete – in other words, he loves showing up at the park and getting paid well to do it, but beyond that he really values his privacy. And things often don’t end well for guys like that in Boston.

His leaving the team was, I think, a combination of immaturity (which he’s owning up to here), frustration with his contract (sort of understandable, since 2 years ago was basically his last shot at a big payday), and just being sick of sports media, particularly the Boston sports media. I think he probably got tired of teammates and others in the organization ripping him in the local papers; even I got sick of reading hand-wringing articles about Manny not running out a ground ball. Love the Sox, but the way things get aired out in the media with them is one of the few things I regularly dislike about them.

At the end he’s like saying, I just helped the old lady across the street. Everybody look at me. You don’t apologize to try to prove you’re a good person or a real man, you do it because you believe it’s the right thing to do, but at least he did apologize in some way albeit goofy.

Please sweep these douchebags
Thanks,
Twins Territory

Yeah, we suck.