The Bangladeshi cabbie who took me home from last night’s frustrating Sox game had some interesting thoughts on Manny Ramirez. He peppered me with questions about the game – how he’d looked at the plate, whether the crowd was on his back – and then solved this whole sit-down strike thing for everybody.
Manny, he said, shouldn’t just stop acting like a child; he should remember that in a lot of places – be it Washington Heights or some island somewhere – money is still money.
“These guys forget where they came from. I’m from a place like that. Dollars, man – that’s a lot of money in some places. If I were him, if I could hit like that, I wouldn’t playing around for $20 million. All I’d need is $1 million over two years. Why do you need more than that? And then, after that, if I’d been good, maybe get $100,000 more. Please. You gotta say please. Where I come from, a dollar gets you, like, seventy dollars. And then you go home and everybody wants you to buy the drinks!”
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