Saturday, July 19, 2008

If They Gave One To Palmeiro...

Video today of Manny being Manny, which is to say video of a hair farmer being shit-tastic at catching a baseball. It's bad enough to miss the ball by three feet, but scampering after it on all fours like some hamstring-tear-suffering marathon runner trying to cross the finish line, then apparently using his cheeks to snare the ball once it stopped rolling?

On the bright side, this ensures Matt Murton won't finish last in the Gold Glove voting for the A.L.

4 comments:

Jerry said...

Yeah, but this is still not my #1 Manny in the outfield moment. Not even my #2.

#2 was earlier this year though, when he caught the ball, jumped up on the wall, high fived a Sox fan, then doubled off a runner who failed to tag at second.

But my favorite has still got to be when he dove to cutoff a ball thrown by Johnny Damon from center, getting up to his feet, and trying to throw home. Result of the play: inside the park home run.

Adam Kadela said...

I don't think I ever saw your #1. That's fantastic. Let me know if you know of a Youtube link.

Jerry said...

I tried to find it for ya, but everywhere I go, it leads to a dead link saying it was removed due to copyright violation claims by the MLB.

Why are they so damn protective of their old clips?

Adam Kadela said...

Oh well... maybe this means there's an ESPN "Best of Manny Being Manny" special in the works.