True Colors

As a Red Sox fan all my life, the last 6 years have been redeeming.

Yet, one portion of those 6 years has always remained, usually silently, subterraneaneously below the surface...a stench.

The stench of the bad attitude of one man: Manny Ramirez, perhaps the greatest pure right-handed baseball slugger of our generation.

Before blogs were popular, I came out vocally in support to anyone who would listen during the 2004 season of the trade/dumping of the unhappy, petulant Nomar Garciaparra.

I came out on this blog, to dumping Manny earlier this season, and Manny has shown his true colors. In this article, Manny clearly indicates he dogged it during this season, and showed what a classless act he is.

Manny didn't like winning here in Boston, so he pulled every string he could (even to the point of shoving a 60+ year old man) to get out. He succeeded. He claimed he was hurt many weeks before he left, refusing to play, at one point refusing to get on the freaking team plane. Clearly, after the trade where he ran all out around the bases, posted a .400+ average and hammered several home runs.

Manny showed his colors, and he's all about one thing...him and his money. Most players these days are, but he took it to another level. I'm glad he's gone. What a maroon.