Robert Frost Hates Manny Ramirez
October 18, 2007 by Albert Bianchi
Filed under Sports Rumors
Manny being Manny is getting irritating. During yesterday’s inexplicable off-day — which I’m almost certain had something to do with Joe Buck being on Conan last night — Manny topped his insignificant showboating by showboating about being insignificant.
With the Red Sox just one loss from elimination, the star slugger was asked about Game 5 of the AL Championship Series against Cleveland.
“Why should we panic?” he said Wednesday in a rare clubhouse interview. “We’ve got a great team.”
And then, this: “It doesn’t happen, so who cares? There’s always next year. It’s not like it’s the end of the world.”
That would make him the only person in New England to feel that way. To quote famous New Englander Robert Frost,
“You should hate not to win. Nothing can be done with people who don’t mind losing.”
But that’s just Frosty being Frosty.
Nice comparison! Maybe we can make Robert Frost an ancestral honorary member of Red Sox Nation.
Didn’t Frost also claim that good fences make good neighbors? So, when Ramirez hit the ball over the fence, he was just being a good neighbor, ergo the celebration.
Um, or something like that…