Hanley Ramirez

[funkster]

<!--quoteo(post=97006:date=May 19 2010, 01:18 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ May 19 2010, 01:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=97004:date=May 19 2010, 01:13 PM:name=funkster)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (funkster @ May 19 2010, 01:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Whether or not the runners would have scored is beside the point. Without all the pertinent facts its hard to determine whether or not Gonzalez acted inappropriately by speaking to the media about this. Regardless, I do wish more managers had the balls to do this when the primadonna superstars act like this.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I don't. I think taking him out of the game and "resting him" for a couple of days should be the extent of the managers public actions. Anything involving words should be man to man and not something one man reads the other man saying in the paper. I have no sympathy for Ramirez' hurt pride...and this may actually be effective but it doesn't show Gonzalez in the best light. Whether or not a manager needs to use the media to humiliate a player, he should never look like he needs to.
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I actually meant had the balls to sit their superstars, not necessarily calling them out in the media.