Found January 12, 2012 on Yahoo! Sports:
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In one scene, he choked back tears. In another, he frolicked with some elderly ladies in a swimming pool during an exercise class. For those reasons alone, this ESPN video of slugger Manny Ramirez being interviewed by Pedro Gomez is must-see TV. Ramirez, who promptly quit baseball this past April after being suspended for 100 games following another failed drug test, told Gomez he is a "changed" person, and that he still has something left in the baseball tank: "I want to show people that Manny can change, that he can do the right thing," Ramirez told Gomez. "And to show people that I still can play. I don't want to leave the game like I did. I also want to show my kids that if you make a mistake, don't quit. Just go back and fix it. And if you're going to leave, leave the right way." Oh, and he wants to be a "role model." Ramirez, 39, appeared to have more problems than retiring gracefully when, in September, he was arrested...
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