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March 21, 2007
If somehow you haven't heard about the Jenn-Air Grill that Manny Ramirez is hawking on eBay, here's the link. What started as a strange enough story when the ad went up on the online auction site, complete with pictures of Ramirez and the message, "Hi, I`m Manny Ramirez. I bought this AMAZING grill for about $4,000 and I used it once... But I never have the time to use it because I am always on the road. I would love to sell it and you will get an autographed ball signed by me =] Enjoy it, Manny Ramirez," has predictably become a complete farce, with "bidders" posting $99 million offers as of this morning. The usually reticent Ramirez actually spoke to the media yesterday, telling the Boston Globe's Amalie Benjamin that the grill is, in fact, not really his.
Meanwhile, Manny and the grill are the hot topic of conversation this morning on WEEI's Dennis and Callahan Show. There is much speculation about whether Ramirez is breaking eBay rules by trying to represent something as his when it is, apparently, not. Earlier this morning, the same radio show featured an interview with one Steve Mandl, Ramirez's coach at George Washington High School in New York City, who laments that he is constantly seeking donations to equip his players, who largely come from low-income families, while the fabulously wealthy Ramirez has become a nonentity. He says he expects that Ramirez will some day make his return and solve all of the baseball program's financial problems. But if that doesn't happen, Mandl says he has made sure that his current prospects understand the importance of giving back.
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