Although Manny Ramirez's
attempt to help out a neighbor by selling his grill online didn't quite work out -- eBay took down the listing when they couldn't verify Ramirez as the owner and when the bidding reached $99,999,999 -- the whole episode may have resulted in Manny picking up another sponsor. From the
Boston Herald:
eBay removed Red Sox Manny Ramirez's Jenn-Air gas grill from the cyber-auction site Wednesday because the webmasters couldn't smoke out whether the super-deluxe rig was actually being sold by No. 24. And that's against the rules.
But while eBay wasn't so thrilled with the sale of the grill, the Jenn-Air people, according to Manny, were fired-up about it!
"The grill people called my agent; they want me to do a commercial for them," he told redsox.com yesterday.
I guess
Jenn-Air likes the publicity, but aren't they missing the point? He was trying to get
rid of the grill. I'm not sure he can offer the best endorsement. (But bloggers, on the other hand, I heard they make the best endorsements. And they don't even want money, just
a grill to use for, uh, testing purposes.)
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3-23-2007 @ 7:26PM
MurphNewBedford said...
"Manny being Manny."
-Murph.
Oh, I can't wait till mid-june, Barry "insert nickname here" Bonds comes to Fenway..Barry, you ain't in cali no more..hahahaha! gonna be fun. Go Sox!
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3-24-2007 @ 2:34AM
jim said...
Now i see that it is true MONEY goes to money o well . Now here's a great idea for the commercial ''''manny sitting in a hammock sipping on a corona lite bragging about how he put this great
NEW "" JENN-AIR "" GRILL and then turns to his wife and ask when are the BUGERS going to be ready as he falls off his hammock and look up and says
OH WELL I GUESS ITS MANNY BEING MANNY
PS as for E BAY have your friend give it to you then its yours sell it and give him the money
DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT MANNY MAKES ABOUT $ 32.000 A DAY YA A DAY
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