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After a day or two of pissing and moaning about being taken out of the Florida Marlins’ lineup against the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday, Hanley Ramirez, the Marlins’ drama-queen-of-the-week all-star shortstop — accused by his coach of not hustling the day before — has sucked it up and apologized to his teammates.
After a 10-minute meeting with Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez, it’s being reported
that Ramirez approached each player individually and apologized for his
TO-esque behavior in the media — and his on-the-field shenanigans —
over the past two days.
If you missed all the hoopla, here’s how New Times‘ Paul Rubin described the play on Monday.
The D-Backs’ Tony Abreu dinked a ball to short left over Ramirez’s
head with two runners on base. Ramirez chugged after it, but the ball
dropped in front of him.
Somehow, Ramirez then accidentally kicked the ball down the line
about 100 feet (the left fielder was of no help as he was charging in
and had no momentum).
Trouble was, he jogged after the thing (he said later that fouling
a pitch off his shin in the first inning had kept him from moving any
quicker) and both runners scored easily. Abreu ended up on third after
the error.
As a result, Gonzalez benched Ramirez for alleged loafing and a media
shit-storm ensued, complete with Ramirez pullin’ the Rodney Dangerfield
card, telling reporters “I respect everybody. But I don’t know if I get
the same respect back.”
Ramirez sat out during the Marlins’ 8-0 slaughtering of the D-backs bullpen yesterday but he is in the lineup tonight as the Fish take on the Cardinals in St. Louis.
