Is Manny vs John Henry Really a Big Deal?
Manny Ramirez might get his meeting with John Henry, but the Red Soxprincipal owner will have a hard time giving his slugger any sympathy.Henry responded via e-mail to Ramirez’ statement in The Herald yesterday saying that he hoped for a postseason meeting with ownership to clear up their plans for his future. “I want no more (expletive) where they tell you one thing and behind your back they do another thing,” Ramirez told The Herald. “I think I’ve earned that respect, for a team to sit down with me and tell me this is what we want, this is what we want to do.” “I find remarks that we have been anything other than completely straightforward to be personally offensive,” Henry wrote. Thank God for this. Because we’ve been forced to endure, what… two weeks?… since the last media-fueled Manny controversy. Which is like sitting through five minutes of a Michael Bay movie without an explosion. As with the previous 5,000 of these dust ups, there’s really nothing to this thing. It’s simpl
