Manny Pimp Slaps Youkilis
June 6, 2008, 4:08 pmFrom the NY Times (Jack Curry):
Before the fifth inning, television cameras caught Ramirez and Youkilis barking at each other and Ramirez giving Youkilis a back-handed slap. Teammates quickly intervened to separate them, but the skirmish, which only lasted a few seconds, was jarring. There is not much footage of two players on the same team slapping each other in the face.
Youkilis and Ramirez were unavailable for interviews after the game and Manager Terry Francona tried to minimize the incident. The two players, one a hard-nosed first baseman and one a free-spirited left fielder, might have been arguing over an earlier brawl.
According to The Boston Globe, Ramirez was one of the last players on the field after James Shields of the Tampa Bay Rays drilled Coco Crisp with a pitch in the second inning. The Globe said Ramirez was not on the field until the Red Sox relievers were involved in the fracas. The relievers had to run in from the bullpen, which is over 300 feet away. Ramirez had a much shorter jaunt from the dugout.
And people always talk about the Yankees and their “clubhouse” dynamic. I don’t recall seeing Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez every bitch slapping each other in the dugout. Then again, we’ve seen Alex Rodriguez bitch slap Bronson Arroyo when running to first base, so maybe the two teams aren’t so dissimilar as bitch slapping is part of their communication process.
When did Rodriguez bitchslap Arroyo? Duringv hat brawl in 2004, prior to the Sox bitchslapping Yankee Nation in the playoffss, it was Varitek who jammed his glove in A-Rod’s grill before he took him to the ground with a single leg takedown. Get your facts straight. As far as troubles in the Yankees’ dugout? Those fairycakes don’t have the ballss or the fire to argue amongst eachother like men, let alone fight eachother.
stop embarrassing yourself, please (fairycakes? haha, come on!).