This will pizz you off: Manny's cool
by Goofus on Sep 12, 2009 8:59 AM PDT
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Since everyone is in a bad mood, I thought I'd just pile on with a little story that'll bum you out even more.
A friend of mine from work, who's from LA and a Dodger fan (he's ok though) was in Phoenix on business. He went to an evening D'Backs/Dodgers game. When he got back to the hotel, he saw Manny Ramirez sitting in the hotel lounge area. Manny looked up and saw my friend in his Dodger shirt and gave him a thumbs up.
My friend went over, and almost apologetically, asked Manny if he'd mind signing an autograph for his son. Manny not only said "Sure! No problem!" but he proceeded to chat for a while with my friend. Then he said, "Do you have a camera? We can take a picture if your kid would like that." My friend was bummed and said he left his Iphone in up in his room. Manny said, "Well, go get it...I'll wait."
So my friend goes up to his room, gets his phone and goes back down there and Manny's still there waiting. the problem was that there was no one to take the picture so they hung out and chatted a while and a cocktail waitress comes along and Manny asks her to take the picture. They stand up and Manny puts his arm around my friend's shoulder and she takes the pic. Manny told my friend to check the pic and it was all blurry, so he asked the waitress to take another. That one turned out crappy too, so he had her take 3rd, which turned out well. They chatted a little more and that's the end of the story.
My friend was pretty amazed at how cool Manny was in an era where so many players have no appreciation for the fans. Not only was he more than happy to sign an autograph, but he was happy just to hang out and chat then went above-and-beyond in insisting my friend end up with a picture. I want to hate Manny because he's a Dodger and because he's Manny, but now it's pretty hard after hearing this story...goddamn it!
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I’ve heard that he’s pretty nice from other fans, too.
I remember meeting Will Clark when I was like 10-years-old. He was pretty surly. I met Bonds a few times, and he always was nice-ish, kinda in his own world, but not a total MONSTER like most made him out to be.
by xanthan on Sep 12, 2009 9:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I agree re: Bonds.
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by rotorueter on Sep 12, 2009 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I haven’t had the chance, but my dad has met Bonds a few times and he said pretty much the same thing.
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by jponry on Sep 12, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I met Will Clark in 1988 when I was 8. I remember him being quite nice, although he did seem quite shy for the most famous person in the Bay Area at the time. Will was such a huge deal in Northern California in the late 80s, and I don’t think he was ever comfortable with that kind of attention.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Sep 12, 2009 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I met Barry quite a few times like 8-10 years ago. His ego was bigger than he was, so I can totally see why he comes off as a dick. Did some great things for a charity my friend was involved in so I gave him a pass on the whole being a dick thing, but he will never be confused with being humble
Didn’t actually speak to Will the Thrill, but I was in a big group of friends that ran into him at the All Star game here. With everyone chanting his name and all that, he just smiled and waved and posed for pictures. Seemed very gracious and more worried about keeping his kid from being crushed by the crowds. Saw him again when he was herding down the ramps of the ball park and he didn’t seem to say much. Can definitely see him being shy as mentioned before
by m34josh on Sep 13, 2009 3:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I ran into Will recently, and he was totally awesome. Really friendly and accommodating.
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by kdl on Sep 13, 2009 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
TOO SOON!!!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 12, 2009 9:49 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Manny Being Nice Manny ?
I had not heard that about him. When Feliz first came up with the Giants in 2001, our Family was at the phone in August. Both of my daughters are big baseball fans, so we always waited out by the exit gate for autographs.
Most of the players waved inside the paddock, waved driving by on their way out or signed one and walked away. Feliz walked out to the barrier and started signing until every single kid there got an autograph. Dude, stayed out there for about fifteen minutes.
Even when Feliz was hacking at fastballs in the dirt, I still had a soft spot for him because of that moment.
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by nvsfg on Sep 12, 2009 10:00 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't think anyone ever thought Pedro was anything but a nice guy
Ie, no one would ever confuse him with AJ Pierzynski.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
by Aadik on Sep 12, 2009 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
curse you, goofus!
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by raisingcain on Sep 12, 2009 10:01 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Then he ate a baby, AMIRITE?
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by ringleader3 on Sep 12, 2009 10:08 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Fixed
Then he ate had a baby, AMIRITE?
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by Goofus on Sep 12, 2009 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fixed more:
Then he ate had a baby for breakfast, a baby for lunch, and a sensible dinner, AMIRITE?
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by ringleader3 on Sep 12, 2009 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like Manny
When I lived in Boston, he was easily my favorite, non-Pedro player on the Red Sox. The fact that he infuriated middle-aged sportswriters made me like him even more. ;)
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
by Aadik on Sep 12, 2009 10:10 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
What the heck was your friend packing , a Pocket Instamatic?
Don’t all cameras worth carrying have timers these days?
Ya know...ignorance really IS bliss.
Well - I do , anyway.
by victor frankenstein on Sep 12, 2009 10:11 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
It was his Iphone
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by Goofus on Sep 12, 2009 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whoops , my bad.
Just call me Spotty.
Ya know...ignorance really IS bliss.
Well - I do , anyway.
by victor frankenstein on Sep 12, 2009 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Spotty
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by The Thrill on Sep 12, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Beam me up, Spotty
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by Goofus on Sep 13, 2009 7:04 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s pretty obvious to me that Manny was nice to your friend because he was attracted to him. It’s all those female hormones he’s injecting. Did your friend say he has a nice rack?
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by rxmeister on Sep 12, 2009 10:17 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Manny being clingy Manny?
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by baetown415 on Sep 12, 2009 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Manny being womanny
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 12, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It almost sounds like Manny was in need of normal contact
I’ve never really had a problem with Manny, he’s an awesome player and a bit of an airhead, but he’s clearly no asshole.
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by marcello on Sep 12, 2009 10:40 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
He may be great with fans
but didn’t he also push an elderly traveling secretary to the ground and the stand over him? That sounds like an asshole move to me.
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by icanplaythird on Sep 12, 2009 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
correction
“then stand over him”
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by icanplaythird on Sep 12, 2009 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
Although we don’t know the whole story. If that is the case, well it was an asshole move. It doesn’t make him an asshole though, necessarily. He just fucked up bad.
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by marcello on Sep 12, 2009 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's hard to imagine the side of the story that would justify what he did.
You are right, you can’t judge someones character based on what was likely their worst moment. Still, Fuck the Dodgers.
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by icanplaythird on Sep 12, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That old person had it coming
They eyed me aggressively.
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by marcello on Sep 12, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
My only problem with Manny is that he's not a Giant.
Even with the 50 game suspension I’m pretty sure he would have given the Giants atleast 5 more wins, quite likely more.
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by The Thrill on Sep 12, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i couldnt help but think that same exact thing last night
Thing A
by sam23 on Sep 12, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Uh, no.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
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by Cookyman on Sep 13, 2009 5:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good story
Thanks for bumming me out even more, Goofus!
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by Kitspool on Sep 12, 2009 10:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I only hate Manny because he is a Dodger. I liked him back in his Boston days.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
by rotorueter on Sep 12, 2009 11:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm pizzed!
A buddy of mine met Albert Belle in a bar and had a beer with him. He said he was cool.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Sep 12, 2009 11:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I’m not surprised. Sportswriters especially are guilty of turning athletes into these binary caricatures who are either totally evil and cancerous (Bonds) or flawless saints (David Robinson. Bad example, David Robinson actually is a saint.) People are complicated, they have different sides to them. Kirby Puckett was the nicest guy in the world, and he hit his wife. Manny Ramirez pushes a traveling secretary and spends time chatting with a Dodgers fan and making sure the picture of the two of them looks okay.
I think we can all agree, however, that Fred Lewis is history’s greatest monster.
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by Kitspool on Sep 12, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
A couple of my friends met Lincecum at a bar back in March. They said he was really nice, took a couple pictures and even had a round of jagerbombs with them.
I think I received 200 text messages and 45 voice mails that night because I had decided to stay home and watch a movie… that was a mistake.
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by j14 on Sep 12, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good Will Hunting line
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by achiappanza on Sep 12, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jeff Bagwell wanted to buy my sister a drink
But she turned him down.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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by baetown415 on Sep 12, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Liar
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by The Thrill on Sep 12, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Her story, not mine
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
by baetown415 on Sep 12, 2009 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This doesn’t piss me off.
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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by Natto on Sep 12, 2009 11:25 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Manny’s always struck me as a happy guy who’s just trying to enjoy the heck out of life. This certainly fits!
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by Skaldheim on Sep 12, 2009 11:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
RAGE
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by jponry on Sep 12, 2009 11:51 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, good for him. It’s nice to hear about a ballplayer who isn’t a flaming dillhole.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 12, 2009 12:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That’s one area where he is clearly the polar opposite of Barry Bonds
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by Useful_Idiot on Sep 12, 2009 12:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
Barry would never chill in a hotel lounge.
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by Natto on Sep 12, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Though
he once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.
by Hoist That Rag on Sep 12, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know I've mentioned this before
…but my brother works in a high-end retail business in SF and has met substantially all of the professional athletes in SF. He insists that, by far, the nicest one he’s met is Randy Johnson. That doesn’t gel at all with much of the ink spilled about him.
I’ve met very few pro athletes, but I guess the friendliest one I’ve met was Dustin Hermanson.
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by antinous on Sep 12, 2009 1:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
The friendliest I ever met was Randy Cross
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by The Thrill on Sep 12, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mine was Rod Beck
He bought me a coke and asked me about little league.
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by icanplaythird on Sep 12, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Read this without the “a” at first. Woaaah boy.
by ryanmiles on Sep 14, 2009 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sergio Romo was the nicest guy I’ve ever met, yet Thomas Neal is pretty cool too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 13, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bill Laskey is mine. He would give me a ball every time I’d show up at a Sunday game in the early ’80s.
Also, Jeff Brantley went out of his way to ask who I was when he saw me perform as Action in “West Side Story.” I can’t believe i haven’t mentioned that before.
by Grant on Sep 13, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He might have wanted to make sure he didn’t ever accidentally see you perform again.
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by Goofus on Sep 13, 2009 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sergio Romo’s the only guy on the Giants I’ve met. It was in 2007 at San Jose. My Little League team was hanging out by the bullpen, and he came out and chatted with us for a few innings. He even talked to the team’s resident Dodgers fan.
"What are the odds Buster Posey ever plays for the Giants?"
"He won’t play until he gets some major league experience."
by El Person on Sep 16, 2009 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
THIS STORY SOUNDS LIKE A LOAD OF CRAP
he’s just lucky he didn’t catch manny off his fertility drugs, he gets real moody then…
by HOLDEMUPwuzzBANNED on Sep 12, 2009 1:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I was at a Dodgers vs. Giants game on July 4th in Los Angeles several years ago.
I was sitting right next to the fence that separated the visitors’ bullpen from the fans.
I was one of the few people in a Giants hat, which I think caught the attention of the guy sitting down there at the time: Robb Nen.
He came over to the fence in-between innings and chatted with me and my dad. The Giants lost the game and Nen never warmed up, but I didn’t care. There he was, one of the coolest Giants ever, talking to me for half the game.
Coolest part: When a guy a few rows back of me caught a home run, he asked Nen to sign it and tossed the ball over the fence. Problem was, Nen wasn’t paying any attention. There was another person down there (don’t remember who it was, but he was a coach or bullpen catcher I’m sure) who grabbed the ball, signed it, then grabbed one of the chairs and stood up on it to get it over the fence without throwing it.
Giants are just classy, period.
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by Gabafnerhagen on Sep 12, 2009 4:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
i've heard of two baseball players Manny helped
one i think was Brian Wilson – supposedly they were members of the same workout/fitness club and Wilson(i think it was) tells Manny he wont be around the club anymore as hes out of $$$, then Manny says no problem and pays several months or a years worth of membership fees for him……yeah, sounds incredulous that a mlb player couldnt afford fees at a workout club, i know….
the second incident i heard not too long ago and i think it was Brad Penny, not positive…but this player shared the same agent as Manny but didnt really know Manny or anything – this player was needing to make a down payment on a house and didnt have it and i guess the word got to the agent and Manny supposedly made a $100,000 down payment for this guy, dont know if he had to pay it back, im guessing probably….
i heard both of these stories on KNBR and i think the Penny story was related when Radnich interviewed him the other day after his first start….i think they are both correct but if anyone knows otherwise or better details please post…..
that said, im still not much of a fan of his….
by grako on Sep 12, 2009 5:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That wasn’t Brian Wilson. It was Billy Sadler.
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by Natto on Sep 12, 2009 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, Penny told that story in his Radnich interview. I had a whole different picture of Manny then. That is a seriously generous person. He even told Penny he didn’t have to pay him back.
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by kdl on Sep 13, 2009 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Some of the guys with bad reps with the writers may be ok with the fans.
Met Bonds a few times, he was very nice. One time I was introduced to McCovey and he was in a really grumpy mood. I was surprised, being his reputation is so good.
by bradleybear on Sep 12, 2009 9:11 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I hear Mays can be quite the unapproachable one.
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by cheno on Sep 12, 2009 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It could be that having signed tons of autographs during his playing days, he now prefers doing planned events since he retired.
I have an autograph of his obtained at a Giants Dugout store. We would give the item to a girl sitting on a table who passed it to Mays, so there was no direct contact. The best part was as I was the first in the next group to go in at the door, I observed him turn to an associate and laugh over some joke or anecdote.
by boogalou on Sep 13, 2009 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Like most San Francisco Giants fans, Mandel adored Willie Mays, and he tells us rather pointedly that Mays would not agree to be interviewed for the book, which is a true shame. (Certainly Willie was talked about, in this book.)
Good book, BTW. I found it at the Los Altos Library.
"What are the odds Buster Posey ever plays for the Giants?"
"He won’t play until he gets some major league experience."
by El Person on Sep 16, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I saw Joe Montana at the Sonoma County Fair watching his daughter show her horse. I felt bad for the guy b/c he was mobbed in the stands while he was trying to watch his daughter and be a family man. I also got to meet him at a friends who owned a ranch next to his property. He was really cool, and did a lot of the work himself.
I R 5
by say hey nation on Sep 14, 2009 5:57 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I saw Joe Montana at the Sonoma County Fair watching his daughter show her horse. I felt bad for the guy b/c he was mobbed in the stands while he was trying to watch his daughter and be a family man. I also got to meet him at a friends who owned a ranch next to his property. He was really cool, and did a lot of the work himself.
I R 5
by say hey nation on Sep 14, 2009 5:57 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I work at a country club in Milwaukee, and one of our members had Hank Aaron in to golf one day. Well I work in the mens locker room, and one thing turned in to another and I ended up seeing his penis. If I felt like typing it’s a pretty great story. That is the only connection I will ever have with him, unless he remembers me showing him his locker because he’s so old he doesn’t remember where his shit is. I’ve also met Jerry Kelly (who?), but nicest person ever. He gave me tickets to the golf tournament he was in (US Bank Open).
by wanna Ishikawa? on Sep 14, 2009 6:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
::waits for the Goofus penis jokes::
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