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Friday, September 12, 2008
The other night I saw Reggie…uhh, Manny, racing back for a ball that had gotten by him…I then realized I had time to sort my Alymer miniature toy soldiers by vest colors! BANNERS FORWARD!
Manny Ramirez is the worst baseball player I have ever seen.
I am not kidding.
A ticket-selling novelty slogan is a great excuse for a player you do not want to settle your fate with his legs, arm, glove or mind. In other words, this guy is a liability anytime he doesn’t have the bat in his hands.
...This is why the Dodgers have a designated hitter in left field, a hair case trigger swinger whose numbers hurt the opposition but who hurts his own team in ways numbers won’t register. He is a poor addition to running a ballgame and a drain on a bench. He’s a terrible National League player. You must run the game around him and not let him run the game. Only a very good team, which the 2008 Dodgers are not, can absorb the runs he gives back with his mistakes and still win a championship.
But Ramirez is also a reason why some detest the modern game. He plays a watered-down version of what the game was designed to be, and baseball has embraced this glossy version of over-the-line.
Repoz
Posted: September 12, 2008 at 10:24 AM | 26 comment(s)
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1. X-Roid User Posted: September 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM (#2939028)At least he quickly forgot about Andruw Jones.
I will borrow that when I launch XLB.
Gammons is aching for the Dodgers to sign Varitek to a contract in the offseason and move Martin to third. He thinks the Dodgers need a "pitcher-minded catcher."
A Nats game?
Is Dodger stadium supposed to be some kind of retirement home for the 2004 Red Sox?
Lowe and Manny have worked out pretty well, but a Varitek looks to be as useless as signing Bill Mueller - pay him a 'thank you' contract, give up a draft pick, and get zero production out of him.
Then they can resign Nomar, send Loney back to AAA for lack of veteranness, bring in Kevin Millar, then give Pedro and Schilling incentive-laden injury rehab contracts. Trot Nixon wouldn't be hard to sign, and the Yankees might be willing to move Damon's contract even though he's been pretty productive for them.
So the Red Sox FO wants to get rid of Varitek on friendly terms and ask their favorite shill to help.
He's woefully incomplete in every way, except in one of the two ways he can be incomplete.
Prexactly.
beat me to it.
but boy am i glad he's playing like this right now.
The real question is what does Geraldine Ferraro think about Manny Ramirez.
The new jerseys will be tight, form-fitting Under Armour!
On a certain level, this would be excellent. It would also make home HDTV sales plummet.
Indeed! Why in my day, we never put good-hitting, poor-fielding players in LF or 1B. Never, ever, ever. Every fielder was a gazelle. Greg Luzinski was poetry in motion, a Baryshnikov.
And Manny is "glossy"?
It is not that he has suddenly become an acceptable fielder -- small sample and luck of the draw means that he has not done them any significant harm in the time he has been there. Thus, his play for the Dodgers, producing a batting line of .396/.488/.776/1.264, 14 HR, 40 RBI, 27 R in 38 games, has been an unalloyed positive, to date.
Dick Stuart could play short in today's game. And I mean, he could play it TODAY. This product they're passing off as 21st century major league baseball disgusts me.
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