You might remember back to the incident in Houston where Manny Ramirez shoved Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick. Well it turns out Manny said he was “disrespected” by McCormick.
As for the incident that had him knocking down a Red Sox executive, “I was wrong,” Ramirez said.
He said the relationship with the executive had been deteriorating for some time, and a day earlier the guy had said some nasty things to Ramirez in front of Ramirez’s teammates.
Ramirez went home troubled, returned and asked for a meeting with the executive. “I told him, ‘I can’t have you disrespecting me in front of my teammates.’ ”
When he didn’t get the response he liked, it escalated into a shove.
“I didn’t handle it the right way,” he said.
We knew the truth would come out eventually as to what really happened but let’s think about this for a second.
Manny says he was disrespected by McCormick but what did Manny do to the Boston Red Sox organization, his teammates and the fans just a few weeks later. He disrespected them by faking an injury and not playing. He disrespected them with his many comments about how he wanted out of Boston.
Then he has the balls to say when he gets to LA that he thanks the fans of Boston for supporting him. Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black.
