We’re adding to our staff here at No Regard. Before this fine, currently anonymous, gentlemen officially debuts here, we thought we would let him have the first crack at our (true) midseason awards. Here’s how it works:
We will give you our current top five and our projected top five for:
MVP and Cy Young (Voting Points): 7-5-3-2-1
We will also give you our current top three and our projected top three for:
Rookie and Manager of the Year (Voting Points): 5-3-1
I’m a big Manny Ramirez guy. He’s fun to watch and he doesn’t take himself too seriously on the field, which makes him even more fun to watch and certainly contributes a large amount to his success.
But what Manny did over the weekend, makes him pretty hard to like right now.
Apparently, Manny doesn’t take things so lightly off the field. According to the Providence Journal, on Saturday Ramirez pushed the Red Sox’s traveling secretary Jack McCormick to the ground when McCormick couldn’t grant Ramirez a ticket request.
Ramirez had asked McCormick for 16 tickets for Saturday night’s Red Sox-Astros game, an unusually high number for day-of-game. In addition to handling all travel details for clubs, traveling secretaries also take player ticket requests for both home and away games.
When McCormick cautioned Ramirez that he might not be able to fulfill his request, Ramirez responded by shouting: “Just do your job!”
An argument ensued and Ramirez pushed McCormick, sending him to the ground.
Later, the two met behind closed doors and Ramirez apologized to McCormick, who accepted the gesture. No further disciplinary action is expected against Ramirez.
That’s simply unnacceptable.
