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karma.
Dude acts like an idiot, and his team does nothing after that.
Manny
seriously, did anyone catch his pose after he hit a home run last night to cut the lead to 4. Some pitcher needs to put one in his ear.
karma.
Dude acts like an idiot, and his team does nothing after that.
Manny
That's what he does after every homerun...
If a team in basketball is winning by 30 with 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter and someone on the other team hangs on the rim after a dunk, I would say...
who cares?
Manny is such a waste of air.
Riiiight. He is one of the greatest right handed hitters in history, the best post season homerun hitter in history, and the best 2 strike hitter in baseball....and you say he is a waste of air.
Manny did the pose because the Sox just made 3 straight HRs and he wanted to try to get the team fired up and feeling good offensively for the first time in 20 innings....chill the out.
saw nothing wrong with it, especially since it's manny and he has no sense of reality. i dont think he does to outright disrespect anyone. i just think he has no clue. and jim is right, he's one of the best hitters in baseball EVER. ultimately, it doesnt matter what he did anyway. the bottomline was 7-3. i hate to use the cliche, but at the same time, its appropriate ... thats just manny being manny.
why worry about what manny did its 3-1
One which you would love to have on your team.
"I'm just trying to go have fun," he said. "If somebody strikes me out and shows me up, that's part of the game. I love it. I like that. I like to compete and when people strike me out and they show me up, it's all good. There's no hard feelings."
Ramirez spent seven-plus seasons in Cleveland and was part of the Indians' World Series teams in 1995 and 1997.
The Indians' Kenny Lofton didn't have a problem with Ramirez posing.
"It's the playoffs, and you've got to enjoy it," said Lofton. "If I hit a ball like that, I'd do it, too."
Manny has been having fun playing baseball and not taking it too seriously for years, and that is fine with me.
do you want to take back your defense of Manny after what he said yesterday? Basically that it's no big deal if they lose and he doesn't really care
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl.../SP4QSRLKC.DTL
Yeah, and then later, in the SAME article, he says:"Who cares about the records? We just want to go out and win."
You can't take anything Manny says seriously. He marches to the beat of his own, slightly-off drummer.
And I don't know why an Indians fan is so concerned. You are on the verge of winning, if a guy from the other teams doesn't seem to care (in your eyes), then that would be good, no?
I still say the Sox win tonight. After that, who knows.
ehBasically that it's no big deal if they lose and he doesn't really care
what he says is true.
Its just a friggen ball game. That I don't have a problem with.
Standing with your hands in the air looking like a dumb down 4 runs, akin to making a routine tackle and celebrating down 30.
Um, no. Making a tackle and hitting a HR in the playoffs are as far apart as night and day.
You should get excited when hitting a HR, especially when it was the 3rd straight HR for your team that was down 7-0 just 5 mins prior....RIGHT???
This BS is baseball where you can not celebrate is so far out dated it is unreal. In basketball, they are allowed to jump up and down when hitting a big shot or make a big dunk. In football, you are allowed to jump up and down and scream when you catch a TD or thrown one, so wtf can you not enjoy hitting a HR????
Manny is a beast.
yeah and how many times do you say "Amare Stoudamire looks like a jackass"In basketball, they are allowed to jump up and down when hitting a big shot or make a big dunk.
Yeah going from 5 down to 4 down, whew, CELEBRATE!!!!You should get excited when hitting a HR, especially when it was the 3rd straight HR for your team that was down 7-0 just 5 mins prior....RIGHT???
god whipe your eyes and listen.This BS is baseball where you can not celebrate is so far out dated it is unreal.
No problem celebrating in baseball, none at all.
But DOWN 5, cutting it to 4? WTF are you celebrating?
Now had that tied the game, cut it to 1 run in that inning?
Yeah, I'd be down with that.
Idiot!!!! They just hit 3 straight HRs. That is only the 3rd time in history that that has happened in the AL Pennant championship. Do you not need to get 3 runs first in order to get to 7 runs in your comeback?? Why would he not get excited??? Did Manny not think that he was in the middle of a great comeback? Probably yes....so lighten the up.....
congrat they are probly the first team to hit back to back to back homeruns and still lose
Anyone who thinks Manny is going to change is deluded.
And anyone who thinks Manny committed some unpardonable sin in Game 4 with his home run pose is taking this stuff a bit too seriously.
Why?Idiot!!!! They just hit 3 straight HRs. That is only the 3rd time in history that that has happened in the AL Pennant championship. Do you not need to get 3 runs first in order to get to 7 runs in your comeback?? Why would he not get excited??? Did Manny not think that he was in the middle of a great comeback? Probably yes....so lighten the up.....
Cause your getting your ass kicked.
Get it through your thick skull IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!
Not that far.And anyone who thinks Manny committed some unpardonable sin in Game 4 with his home run pose is taking this stuff a bit too seriously.
But hes a showing up punk.
Who cares? What difference does it make? Manny hit a home run in a playoff game -- an absolute bomb the other way, at that -- and got excited about it. He celebrated in his own way and that was that. It didn't change the outcome of the game; it didn't change the fact that Manny crushed the ball.
I don't see why we get so worked up over this stuff. It's a freakin' game. Nobody deserves to be hit with a baseball just for showing some emotion in playing the game.
Our notions of what cons utes disrespect these days are really odd to me.
All that needs to be said. A lot of Spurs fans seem to think every damn thing is disrespectful, and most of the time it isn't. I don't know what the Cleveland fan's problem is, if his team was in a 1-3 hole I could see him maybe ing but instead of celebrating a possible WS berth, he has to piss and moan over a HR that had no bearing on the outcome of the game.
And the best part is that in response to something he thinks is disrespectful, he does an equally classy thing in calling for Manny to get thrown at
in haters. Manny is the .
Showing up a pitcher or the perceived showing up of a pitcher almost always draws a response from the other team/pitcher, just not in the playoffs. It wouldn't surprise me if Lewis beaned Manny next year.
It's part of the game.
It's not as if this is my first exposure to baseball -- I guess my question is: why is that part of the game?
It's the same jackass nonsense as the significant number of hitters who glare at the pitcher (or even take runs at pitchers) every time they're dotted. happens; move along and don't get your panties in a wad about some jackass acting a fool. The better revenge isn't to throw at him; it's to dominate him in succeeding plate appearances.
I guess my issue is that everything now is seen as showing up someone else. A pitcher lets one slip and buzzes a hitter and he's showing up the hitter. A hitter takes too long to get out of the box on a home run and he's showing up the pitcher. Where did all of this nonsense come from?
I can see the issue of throwing at a hitter when a player on your team has been thrown at -- that's part of being on a team and it exacts precise revenge for an intentional act by the other team. I can't see using hurt feelings over a home run celebration as a reason to put a runner on base.
Throwing at Manny won't change the fact that he celebrated that home run; and it's unlikely to deter him from celebrating other home runs that might seem as significant at the time he's hit them. In fact, throwing at Manny might just encourage him to continue with those celebrations -- if you're going to give him the base and you're going to expose your pitcher to the possiblity of ejection, that's a win for Manny.
Baseball is chock full of inane codes that I don't understand at all. Right, wrong and understanding have nothing to do with most of these traditional codes; they are what they are.
Just one example:
If the score is 1-0 and the opposing pitcher is throwing a no-no into the 8th or 9th, you lay down a bunt to get on base and that's not acceptable? I don't get how trying to get on base and possibly into scoring position to tie the game is the wrong thing to do.
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