About a week ago, Jeff Conine, a former major leaguer known locally as Mr. Marlin and current special assistant to Marlins president David Samson, had some harsh words for shortstop Hanley Ramirez on Dan LeBatard’s radio show. Conine said that he would consider trading Ramirez if he had the chance and that he doesn’t always try as hard as he should on a nightly basis. The latter is a sentiment not by any means unique to Mr. Conine.
When I read about this radio interview a few days ago, I thought that this might be a good opportunity for Hanley to prove his worth. Nothing will shut up a questioning front office guy like a 5 homer week or couple of 4 hit games. Instead, Hanley took the low road, the Chad Johnson (I refuse to call him Chad Eighfive or whatever stupid name he wants to go with, why are we so accepting of his stupidity? He’s not even that good) road, if you will. On Wednesday, Hanley went with the typical “if he has something to say, say it to my f...
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