Just Manny Being An A-Hole

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I just can't resist a mug shot. Especially when the guy arrested is a former Suck Sox Hero who through his cheating helped them break a perfectly good curse established by selling Babe Ruth to the 27-Time World Champions so the old Suck Sox owner could produce a Broadway play.

When Manny was on the Sux there were a lot of fans of the team who lived with the horrible behavior because he was unbelievable at hitting the ball over the wall. (Even though the wall is only 260 feet away from the plate).

The media and the announcers forgave the boorish behavior in a sport where acting like a self-congratulator used to be met with a fastball to the ribs. There are still guys that play that way.

They wear pinstripes.

But those teams for the Suck sox reveled in their dirty clothes, their idiotic behavior and throwing 75-year old coaches to the ground.

I hated them.

I thought they were cheating.

They were.

So was everybody else.

Manny cheated more than the rest. He got busted twice after everyone knew that they were being tested.

That's a moron.

Last night he fought his wife. That isn't in dispute. She hit her head on the headboard of their bed after he either slapped her (that's her account) or he shook her (that's his account).

Baseball won't let him back in the game. They suspended him twice.

His wife won't let him within a thousand feet of her. The restraining order says so.

The Hall of Fame won't even consider him. Cheating does that for you.

It's just Manny being Manny, someone will say in the next couple of days.

Just Manny being an asshole, if you ask me.

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