Apparently, Manny Ramirez cannot count.
For the rest of the baseball world, three strikes means you are out. For Manny, two strikes - or two times busted for performance enhancing drugs - and Manny is out, retiring from Major League Baseball earlier today.
For Tampa Bay, this is addition by subtraction. After losing several key players this past off-season, Tampa Bay is hardly likely to do well, so Ramirez, who no longer can produce, was taking up a roster spot from a young player who may eventually be key to a future Rays' squad.
I sent a text to friends and family today, notifying them of this development. Here is what they said:
Says my brother-in-law Robert. "Matter of time. He was in a severe decline."
"Glad he's not on the (Red) Sox any longer," my friend Doug M. said.
Danny, my friend and fellow Brew Crew softballer says "Wow! That is crazy!"
The best response comes from my friend Robert. "What a dumb fuck!"
-B. C Helm
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