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May 14, 2007
Lost in the euphoria over yesterday's improbable win over Baltimore, and the concern about Josh Beckett's finger injury, was the fact that it was not a very good day for Manny Ramirez.
Ramirez was booed after failing to make a play on Kevin Millar's pop up in the eighth inning; he misplayed a base hit by Jay Payton in the sixth and he did not run hard on a fourth-inning double play. Ramirez came out of the game due to hamstring tightness and was not a part of Boston's winning rally. We'll s
What They're Saying: Jerome Preisler, YesNetwork Web columnist, author and semiprofessional Red Sox hater, tells The New York Times why Manny is bad for baseball. My comment: Blaming Yankee hatred on a "Calivinistic New England outlook" in the year 2007 is pretty disingenuous. I'd say that most people in this most liberal, not to mention most Catholic region of the country don't take many cues from that icon of the Protestant Reformation, John Calvin. But they'll probably still be saying that about New England 200 years from now.
Angels pitcher John Lackey calls Manny the toughest hitter he has ever faced.
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