Manny Being Manny: Has Red Sox Nation Grown Tired Of Manny Ramirez?

Then came the fight with Jack McCormick, an elderly man who works with the Red Sox as a traveling secretary.  Most fans found it hard to side with Manny on this one.  This is when the tide started to turn a bit.

Then Manny spoke out over the All-Star break, calling Red Sox management dishonest and basically doing his best Pedro Martinez-in-2003 impersonation: "Pick up my option, show me respect, stop lying to me, blah, blah, blah…"

We remember how the Pedro thing worked out.  We’re not liking where this is going.

People have slowly become skeptical of Manny—so much so that when Bob Lobel woke up from his drunken coma and claimed Manny threw a Yankee game in retaliation for the Red Sox fining him an insane amount of money following the locker-room incident with Jack McCormick, a large group of Boston fans actually believed it.

Let me repeat, some Red Sox fans believed that Manny purposely threw away an at-bat against the Yankees because he was mad at the front office.

So I ask Red Sox Nation: have we finally begun to tire of Manny being Manny?  If this is Manny’s last year with the Red Sox, are we actually okay with this?  Has the best right handed hitter in baseball worn out his welcome with both Red Sox management and Red Sox Nation?

I can only speak for myself, but I’m still glad he’s the Boston Red Sox left fielder.   I’ll be sad when he’s gone.   I love watching Manny play and I don’t mind the fact that he’s completely insane.  To me, it adds to his charm.  And if he complains a little, demands to be traded, gets into fights, stops talking to the media…I really don’t care.  As long as he shows up every night and hits towering home runs while doing crazy entertaining stuff out in left field, I’m happy.

But I’m pretty sure there’s a growing group of Red Sox fans who don’t feel the same way.  And that’s a shame.

I’m starting to get the feeling that there are people in the Red Sox organization who will argue that Manny’s not worth another year of aggravation.  I’m starting to get the feeling that there will be a contingent of Red Sox fans rooting for the team to not pick up Manny’s option. 

I’m starting to worry that Manny won’t be Manny in Boston next season.

Sean Crowe is a Senior Writer and an NFL Community Leader at Bleacher Report. You can email him at scrowe@gmail.com. His archive can be found here. You can find everything he writes, including articles for other publications, here.

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