The Baseball Chick

(Hanley Ramirez. Hey Hanley, Don't Point To God, He Doesn't Like You Either)

It’s a sad, shitty world we live in where self-aggrandizing little jerkoffs like Hanley Ramirez can continue to live, make bank, and play well only when they feel like it, while great men like Roberto Clemente die in plane crashes while on their way to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

Maybe Hanley should save the attitude for when he actually brings a team to the playoffs.   He sounds like he’s quickly becoming one of those players that coaches and teammates call a “cancer to the team.”  Winning teams don’t bring cancers into their clubhouses. Enjoy your career with the Marlins/Nationals/Mariners/Indians/Rangers/Royals/Pirates, buddy.

According to Sports Illustrated:

… after Ramirez failed to hustle after a ball he accidentally kicked into the left-field corner as two runners scored in a 5-1 Diamondbacks victory and then failed to apologize, Gonzalez made no excuses for Ramirez.He took a couple public potshots at his manager and one at his less talented teammates, who also are said in the past to have resisted revealing their negative feelings regarding the team’s best player. According to other Marlins people, Gonzalez was especially incensed about Ramirez’s attacks on the teammates, characterizing the situation to other people as Ramirez “throwing his teammates under the bus.”

Ramirez bolted out of the clubhouse on Monday. But the next day, in response to whether he intended to apologize for failing to hustle, Ramirez said to Marlins writers, “For what? We’ve got a lot of people dogging it after ground balls, and they don’t apologize.”

Things worsened from there, believe it or not, as he issued what seemed to be a sarcastic challenge to the rest of the team. An apology now may require a lot more time, as Ramirez appeared to suggest that his teammates are not in his league. True or not, that’s not something a good teammate should say aloud.

Playing off Gonzalez’s remark from a day earlier about the Marlins having “24 (other) guys busting their butt,” Ramirez told Marlins writers, “We’ve got 24 more guys out there. Hopefully, they can do the same things I do.”

Wow, I don’t know who lied to this guy and told him he was good.  Whoever it was should be taken out back and put down like Old Yeller.  Snell is showing some major ‘tude and has made it clear that he does not want to play for the Pirates anymore. 

“Ian spoke publicly about not wanting to come back and it’s tough to bring a player back into a clubhouse with 24 other players when he’s been strongly adamant he doesn’t want to come back,” Pirates general manager Neal Huntington said Sunday.

After going 2-8 with a 5.36 ERA in 15 starts for the Pirates, the right-handed Snell told the team he was weary of pitching amid criticism in Pittsburgh and would welcome a demotion. Snell has been dominant in Triple-A, striking out 13 consecutive batters and 17 overall in seven innings during his first start, but has not lobbied to rejoin the Pirates. (The Vindicator)

Too bad the Pirates have let everyone know that the feeling is mutual.  They apparently have no intention of recalling him in the near future.

“Waaaa!!!  I’m a crappy pitcher on an even crappier team with management that has every intention of keeping us as crappy as possible!!! ” Wait…did I actually feel bad for him for a second?  Basically, Ian Snell has reeked this entire season and should really focus on salvaging his prematurely dying career before it’s too late, instead of crying about his crummy bosses.  Snell was decent in 2007, but the rest of his career has been mediocre at best. However, GM Neal Huntington is either trying to destroy the last embers of dying hope for the last remaining Pirate fan or is near-retarded, and will definitely screw up dealing him.