Rays manager Joe Maddon told Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times earlier today that Manny Ramirez called him following his shocking retirement announcement Friday afternoon.
?He�expressed disappointment in himself to me,? Maddon said, ?but also had really high praise for us as an�organization, as a�group, so I felt pretty good about that.?
Asked if Ramirez apologized, Maddon said:�?He just said he was disappointed, he didn?t necessarily apologize. And I wasn?t looking for an apology actually. I�wasn?t. He spoke to me kinda like man to man, person to person, manager to player kind of a thing. So I�didn?t think he owed me an apology.?
Ramirez doesn?t exactly come off as a sympathetic figure here. He foolishly failed his second (technically third) drug test, left a giant hole in the Rays? lineup and didn?t even have the decency to speak with the team before making his decision official.
On a more playful note, Craig Robinson of Flip Flop Fly Ball has a must-click graphic of how much time Ramirez actually spent playing for the Rays. It?s not quite 10 minutes like Jonah Keri estimated, but it?s pretty darn close.
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