Manny.......True garbage

A number of Red Sox players were asked if they could make the short walk to a tent that was set up just outside the ballpark and say a quick hello to the kids.

There were 32 teenagers on the trip to Fort Myers this year, all big Red Sox fans, all battling cancer. Two of them had just lost a leg to the disease. Many were making their first trip to Red Sox camp, and some would never be back.

Most of the players didn’t hesitate to visit the kids because that’s what most players do - the decent thing, the right thing. Jason Varitek went down, so did David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis and, of course, Tim Wakefield who quietly and selflessly does anything the folks at the Jimmy Fund ask of him.


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They signed a few autographs and posed for photographs. They brought smiles to the faces of some kids who hadn’t had many reasons to smile. It was no big deal for the players, but a very big deal for the patients.

Of course, there was one Sox player who couldn’t be bothered to visit the kids because he never can be bothered. The kids loved him, but he didn’t give a damn about them. That’s how it works in Manny Ramirez’ world. You serve him or you serve no purpose at all.

The tent was no more than 90 feet from the ballpark, which means Ramirez could have been there in 5.7 seconds, even going his usual half-speed.

But he declined this year, just as he has declined for the last six. And, as always, no one was surprised. Why should he care about a bunch of sick teenagers when he doesn’t care about his teammates or his manager or the fans who enabled him and apologized for him for 7 1/2 years?

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Typical Boston Herald. Why didn't they run this story after he was World Series MVP? Or after his batting title in 02? Or the morning after the game winning shot off K-Rod last fall in the playoffs? Not sticking up for Manny in anyway, but the Herald sucks.

 

Don't know much about the Herald.....I just know I've never liked Manny because of his attitude.