MANNY BEING MANNY

by Jack Cobra, Cobra Brigade

Everyone needs to prepare for the media onslaught that is about to bury Manny Ramirez for giving everyone another soundbite yesterday.....

Ramirez was in the center again Wednesday, surrounded at his locker by writers whose pens sped up when he made a casual remark with the Red Sox trailing the Cleveland Indians 3-1 in the AL championship series that resumes Thursday night. "We're not going to give up," Ramirez said. "It doesn't happen, so who cares? There's always next year. It's not like it's the end of the world."

I am preparing myself today for every main stream media outlet to be all over this and all over Manny's case, but why? Who cares what Manny thinks? We already know he's a goofy dude and that he says some weird things at times. Still, he's one of the best right handed hitters anyone has ever seen and you don't become that without a lot of hard work and effort.

People seem to think Manny goes out there and loafs around the outfield and sleepwalks through pre-game....but if you look at the way he plays a ball of the wall in Boston or how he's rarely overmatched by a pitcher, you would know that he's almost always prepared.

So, in lieu of ripping on Manny today, give the guy a break for once. He may have said, "It's not like it's the end of the world," but he's still out there busting his butt to get Boston to the World Series.