You're not going to believe this, but Bill Plaschke found fault with Manny Ramirez's return to Dodger Stadium last night:
The citizens showed up early in hopes that the mayor would come out early to greet them.
He didn't.
The citizens began cheering as he ran out for the start of the game in hopes that the mayor would acknowledge them.
He wouldn't.
The citizens chanted his name as he finished his first warm-up tosses in hopes that the mayor would at least throw them the ball.
He threw it in the left-field stands instead.
After blowing off honesty, accountability and one-third of the season, Manny Ramirez did something more egregious in his return to Dodger Stadium on Thursday.
He blew off Mannywood.
Given that Plaschke has been beating up Manny for months now, I can only assume that he had a "Manny disingenuously tips his cheating cap to the fans" column ready to go too. Either way it's more of the same ridiculous outrage from a guy who, in addition to being unable to write a paragraph longer than one sentence, is unable to appreciate that no one other than him feels betrayed by Manny Ramirez. The guy's a big flake, and that's one of the biggest reasons why the people who like him like him.
To suggest that the fans out in left field feel diminished by Ramirez's alleged slight is to assume that Dodgers fans are simpletons. Some folks like him. Some folks don't. No one apart from a few columnists lose much sleep over the guy, nor should they.
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I had a cousin who sat in Mannywood last night. She was posting frequent updates on her facebook page about the game. The pictures showed that they were having a pretty good time (to say the least). The only thing that disappointed her about the night was the "L". I suspect Plaschke did not talk to her before writing his column...
I don't understand how Plaschke still has a job. His writing "style" is bad even in an industry filled with hack work. Does he think his thoughts are so profound that each one needs to be set off in its own paragraph? He has to be one of the three worst sports columnists in the business today.
i hate that guy (b.p.) won't even read or write his name here. his posts are not worth it to anyone. get a life and move on already...
I like Around the Horn...'specially when that jerk from LA gets the boot!
I am unable to comprehend how Plaschke's editor let's him write with this Long Sentence As A Paragraph Followed By Short Sentence As A Paragraph pattern in every column. It makes the blood in my head swirl around a lot, and I'm grateful that I do not read him standing up. His book on Tommy LaSorda is the single worst thing I've ever read, and the only biography I've read that made me hate the person it's trying to elevate.
I agree that the Plaschke column is absurd, but LA Fans ARE simpletons...at least the ones who go gaga for Manny.