The drama that is Manny

I'm straying a bit off my topic here but sometimes I wish the sports media would play some of these sports "stars" the way these stars play the media. Here in Boston, you could have thought it was "the second coming" with all the coverage that Red Sox player Manny Ramirez received for showing up late to training camp. (He was given "special" permission to show up late because ... well ... he's "special"). What if the tangled mass of jostling reporters decided to stay away? The columnists complain about these players' attitudes, but they also feed it by the exposure and hype they produce. And then there are all those embarassing inferiority-complex questions, "Do you still like Boston? Do you still like us?" Ugh.