Sox Fans Flabbergasted to Learn that Manny Ramirez Actually Has a Mental Approach to Playing Baseball

"Measured, systematic indifference" key to slugger's success. CLEVELAND, OH (Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) — Never get too high. Never get too low. It's the mantra of baseball players everywhere – and a good thing too, given the inevitable ups and downs of a 162 game season. Unlike football or basketball, baseball is best played with a contained intensity. Facing elimination leading up to game five in the ALCS against the Cleveland Indians, quirky Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez shocked many with his casual, almost dismissive remarks, particularly given the team's dire position: "We're not going to give up,'' Ramirez said. ''It doesn't happen, so who cares? There's always next year. It's not like it's the end of the world.'' If it hadn't been abundantly apparent before his remarks, it has since become painfully obvious that Ramirez takes a decidedly different approach to the game – and anyone who's followed his remarkably productive career would have a hard time arguing with the results. People who know him best – a small, intimate circle that surprisingly doesn't include any of his teammates – glowingly speak of his unflinching, unwavering, bullet-proof, all-weather "indifference" (or, as his former sandlot coach Mel Zitter put it, "measured, systematic indifference") no matter the pressure, the game situation or even the life circumstance. Indeed, it's an approach that Manny takes with him when he wanders home from the park and wherever the fates lead him that day, at that very moment.