{"id":3412,"date":"2005-07-31T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2010-07-13T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:36:19","slug":"stalin-shmalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3412","title":{"rendered":"Stalin Shmalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The REAL question in my mind right now is: what is going to happen with Manny Ramirez?<\/p>\n<p>I thought Francona&#8217;s press conference last night was a masterpiece of saying NOTHING.  I think you want that in a manager.  You protect your players.  I loved Varitek, too, surrounded by reporters, saying in response to some question about Manny (but the reporter had only said &#8220;teammate&#8221;): &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what teammate you&#8217;re referring to.  David Wells, my teammate pitched a great game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But obviously SOMEthing&#8217;s going on.  I could never be a sports reporter.  I&#8217;m too in awe.  If I asked Tek a question about Manny, and he responded like THAT, I would never come back with: &#8220;Yeah, but what about Manny &#8230;.&#8221; I would say:  &#8220;Oh, yeah, man, Wells did great!!&#8221;  That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t pay me the big bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REAL question in my mind right now is: what is going to happen with Manny Ramirez? I thought Francona&#8217;s press conference last night was a masterpiece of saying NOTHING. I think you want that in a manager. You protect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19154,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/19154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}