For the most part, the Red Sox and their players have been mum on the big, 800-pound dreadlocked elephant in the room: Manny Ramirez's ugly midseason departure. Few have talked out of turn. "Few", unfortunately, does not include Curt Schilling, who of course felt it necessary to offer his opinion. Curt's like that when he gets in front of a Wordpress dashboard.Among the quiet ones has been Manny's friend, or former friend, David Ortiz. No more. Ortiz broke his silence today to WEEI in Boston:
Ortiz said he urged Ramirez to get along with the front office, his teammates and the media.Obviously, that didn't happen, and now Manny is a man without a country -- no longer a Red Sox, no longer a Dodger; merely one of Scott Boras' minions. See what happens when you don't listen to David Ortiz, kids?*"Everything started one day that I told Manny: 'Hey look, look at the numbers that you have put up your whole career, and you have never been able to win an MVP, there's a reason why,'" Ortiz said. "And the media is our family." He urged Ramirez to "pull yourself together and start getting connected with the media because that's how you express your feelings and people get to know more and Manny's good things, that people don't know about Manny. And he agreed with me."
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11-12-2008 @ 11:14PM
Janet said...
Manny is a talented a -hole, but an a-hole just the same....
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11-12-2008 @ 11:27PM
rockincat said...
David Ortiz IS and always has been a class act. I know for all their years together on the Sox, Big Papi tried to reason with Manny and his "me-first" attitude. Too bad Big Papi's "team-first" mentality, humble demeanor and professionalism didn't rub off on a (wasted) talent such as Manny. Big Papi's right; just look at Jim Rice's stats and his sour history with the media and look where it got him: poor press and no Cooperstown (YET).
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11-13-2008 @ 10:18AM
Suit Jacket said...
If that is extent of David Ortiz statement about Manny, I don't see where he would be a former friend. Since when does not taking a friend advise, cause the end of a friendship. It takes two people to get along, or not get along, If Manny didn't get along with the front office or the media maybe it was the front office and the media that was causing the problem. If Manny felt that he was not getting the respect he felt he deserve he has every right not to get along with them. Athletes don't owe the press any thing and it is not thier job to make the press job easy. And if a sports writer who gets to vote on the MVP, decided that Manny Ramirez deserves and MVP but did not vote for him because he didn't like Manny personally, than that shows what ethics that sport writer has and maybe Ramirez was right about getting along.
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11-18-2008 @ 7:14PM
RAMON GONZALEZ said...
LETS BE STRAIGHT ABOUT ALL THESE PLAYERS GETTING ALL THIS MONEY, ITS ALL ABOUT THE GREED AND NOT ABOUT THE GAME OF BASEBALL ANYMORE, RUTH,DIMAGGIO,RIZZUTTO,WILLIAMS,ALL THE GREATS FROM HIGH AND LOW PLAYED FOR THE GAME AND THE LOVE OF THE FANS THESE GUYS TODAY DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE SPORT ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY-A NOTE REMEMBER LYMON BOSTOCK
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