So what will happen first: Kenny Boy will use his standards to go after a mainstream media guy for PED speculation or Manny Acta will get fired? Looks like neither:Since Ken Rosenthal (among many others) is the mortal enemy of unfounded speculation, everyone is eagerly awaiting his takedown of L.A. Times columnist's Jerry Crowe's suspicious wonderings over Albert Pujols' power. It should be arriving any minute now.
If my story had "no basis," as Nationals acting general manager Mike Rizzo said, then the team should end the uncertainty over Acta's status and announce that he will remain manager for the rest of the season.
But if my story was correct, then the Nationals should make the change sooner rather than later. Acta, who has handled himself with grace and dignity throughout a trying season, deserves a resolution one way or another.
So now the Nats must tell Acta that he will be the manager for the remainder of the season because Ken Rosenthal wrongly said he was going to get fired this week? The Nats can do what they please with Acta without having to check in with Kenny Boy first. The team said the story had no basis, there is your answer Kenny Boy, you messed up not the Nats.
"I like playing for Jerry," Wright said. "I'd say that [report of Manuel's style wearing on the players] is false. I think Jerry brings a nice dynamic to this team. He keeps us loose, he jokes around, but it doesn't matter who you are or what you've done, he'll get on you if you need to be gotten on.
"So I have zero problems with Jerry. I think he's done a phenomenal job with the injuries and dealing with those and getting the most out of his players."
Sheff also stuck it to Kenny Boy:
"Who said that?" Sheffield asked testily.
Told it was Rosenthal, Sheffield said, "I never knew we had a Ken Rosenthal on our team so I don't know nothing about that."
Admiration and respect for Manuel in the clubhouse is not an issue, Sheffield said.
"I think [the Mets] love playing for him," he said. "I think I can speak for everybody in here."
Manuel did not address the column in his pregame meeting with the media, but Wright said there wasn't any need for the manager to respond to speculation and anonymous gripes.
"Speaking for me, I don't think he's ever really thrown me under the bus," Wright said. "If I play bad, I expect him to say I played bad. If I played good, I expect him to say I played good."
As for the idea that the players might not like playing for Manuel, Wright laughed.
"I think all these guys really enjoy playing for him," Wright said. "Again, that's kind of me speaking on behalf on the team. But you can ask everybody individually. I've never heard any whispers about guys not liking playing for him."
Once again Kenny Boy is wrong in his reporting.
Ken Rosenthal is an ass. That he opines for Fox is more proof of his mediocrity as a journalist or sportscaster. I'm sure the NY Daily Fish Wrap will snap him up once his tenure at Fox is over. This is not the first time I've read some of his garbage and said, 'wtf?'
of those guys, to quote Jimmy Buffett, who is "growing older, but not up." I know. I'm also one of those guys. As for growing older, Manny is doing it, but at a much, much slower 
pace than the rest of us, that's for sure. Thirty-six is not that old anymore for a well-conditioned ball player. (At 36, I was still going on 30 mile, 2500' elevation gain mountain bike rides, and skiing down double black diamonds at Tahoe. At 46, I was still playing drums in 6 hour jam sessions.) His work ethic and conditioning have been well documented. His production at the plate has been well documented. His performance on the field is much better than most realize. He is virtually guaranteed a spot in Cooperstown. Yes, he is a clown and a buffoon at times, but ask me if there is a stronger 3-4 combination in MLB. He's had his transgressions, but he has also apologized and paid for them.
Baseball fans all over the country love to dump on Manny, as they did to Barry, but I know their feelings would be much different if either had been clubbing all those taters at their team's park.
settle so you can see exactly what is happening before starting to spew?Manuel, in baseball parlance, "throws guys under the bus." His candor appeals to fans who are tired of hearing excuses for overpaid, underperforming players. But such an approach rarely works long-term.
Some of Manuel's comments probably are more harmless than they appear in print. Some Mets players are not even aware of them.
The Yankees, in dire need of a setup man, eventually will target the best available late-inning relievers — the Rockies' Huston Street, Diamondbacks' Chad Qualls and Astros' Jose Valverde. In fact, they already have expressed interest in Street, according to major-league sources.Really, the Yankees need some help in the bullpen? No shit. Maybe if Kenny Boy read some blogs like this one he would have known the Yankees were interested in Street and wouldn't be giving us old news.
Ken Rosenthal doesn't have a fucking clue. Not in life, or in his baseball knowledge, but in the execution of his whole pointless attack, going borderline Albom-esque ("I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!") on poor Jerod over a perfectly reasonable post that didn't deserve to get the national lambasting that it did.
Rosenthal: Grew up a NYM fan on LI Back then, NYM played NYY in Mayor's Trophy Game. Inter-league’s better! No, not a fan of any team now.
"I'm not even going to be critical of Manny for his first public comments since his suspension."Those comments were against league rules because Manny is not allowed in the clubhouse before games while he is suspended. Way to take a stand Kenny Boy.
Yet, fairly or not, Ramirez's messy divorce with the Red Sox could raise suspicions that the team prefers a certain type of player — unassuming, conformist, white. The current makeup of the team's roster might create similar notions
