| 12 March 2009
This "dead horse" is beyond dead. We've beaten it so badly that it's not even a horse anymore... it's glue.
But Paps calling manny a cancer was worth posting - if only because his comments as a whole strengthen the image of the current ball club - an image that reminds me of the New England Patriots of the early 2000's... "the team comes first."
"It just takes one guy to bring an entire team down, and that's exactly what was happening," Papelbon was quoted as saying in the interview with Esquire's Chris Jones. "Once we saw that, we weren't afraid to get rid of him. It's like cancer. That what he was. Cancer. He had to go. It sucked, but that was the only scenario that was going to work."
Papelbon said Ramirez wasn't on the same page as the rest of the team.
"The beautiful thing about our team is, we don't let anybody get above the team," Papelbon said "He wasn't on the same train as the rest of us....We got rid of him and we moved on without him. That comes from the manager, and it comes from guys like Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield and David Ortiz."
But this was my favorite part of Paps pop-off:
"Nobody is ever going to be allowed to do that. Even a guy like me, just heading into my fourth year in the big leagues - if David Ortiz gets a little, you know - I'll tell him what's up! I'm not afraid to do that. I'm not afraid to put him in his place, because I think everybody needs that."
"And if somebody does it to me, I understand that. I most certainly understand that. Varitek tells me all the time, 'Just shut up. Do what you're supposed to do.'
Words to live by my friends.
Use these buttons to share this post...
<a href="http://www.yardbarker.com/author/new" onclick="window.open('http://www.yardbarker.com/author/new?pUrl=' + (encodeURIComponent('')).replace(/./g,'%2E')+'&pHead='+(encodeURIComponent('')).replace(/./g,'%2E'), 'yardbarker'); return false;">
ARTICLEURL
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
