Manny Ramirez, Are You R-E-T-A-R-....Emotionally Challenged?

As a parent, I try to teach my kids right from wrong. Though unpopular, I do strive for political correctness.

We use all of those cute little, annoying nicknames for physical or emotional disadvantaged people (I grew up calling these handicaps). Short is now vertically challenged. Fat is circumferencely challenged, and bald is follicly challenged. A housewife is a domestic engineer, a janitor is a custodial engineer, and a gardener is an ecological engineer. All of these euphemisms are nice little Mr Rogers-esque little ways to make those less fortunate than you or me feel good about themselves.

But sometimes mentally challenged is still spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-E-D! 

After man child Manny Ramirez's latest episode of "Manny Being Manny" while "Scott Is Scott," one has to wonder if Ramirez and agent Scott Boar-ass both drove the short bus out of La-la Land.

Over my four decades as a baseball fan, I've heard the term, "he has a high baseball IQ," used hundreds of times to describe someone who understands how to play the game. A person who thinks a bit quicker than others and who knows the fundamentals and nuances of the game.

Manny clearly has one chromosome too many on the baseball IQ test. There has hardly been a man to don the stirrups with a lower baseball or perhaps mental IQ than Ramirez.

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