POSTED BY Sarah Green ON 9:47 am, April 16, 2008 - POSTED IN Diamond cuts
For the last few years, Manny Ramirez had been something of a recluse in Red Sox nation. He stopped doing commercials. He never spoke to the papers. He didn’t go on television. But late last season, Manny emerged from his hermetic seclusion like a prophet returned from the wilderness. Nowadays, as befitting his new meditating, The Secret-reading lifestyle, he’s got the dreadlocks of a Bob Marley and the ‘stache of a Kahlil Gibran. And this week he offered some wisdom in haiku/poetic form:
Focus
It’s not hard to play.
It’s easy. It depends on
What you focus on.
Home Run Ball (Right There)
I was looking
For a good pitch–
Something that I like.
It was right there.
Like a fastball–
It was something like eighty–
Or a change.
It was right there.
Even When You Do Not Come Back
Even when you do
Not come back, we love this job
We love to compete.
All the Way
We never give up,
Man.
We just play
Hard.
All the way.
162
David’s gonna hit.
That’s why this is a hundred
And sixty two-games.
Hitting for him
He’s fine. It’s only
Fourteen games. If he doesn’t
Hit, I’ll hit for him.
Good Things
There are things you aren’t
Gonna like, but you have to
Look at the good things.
What I’m Not
Don’t know, I’m not a
Pitching coach. You got to talk
To the pitching coach.
Contract Extension (To Work Out)
Why isn’t it going
To work out?
Of course it’s going
To work out.
Everybody knows it’s going
To work out.
A Player Like Me
I
changed everything.
Boston never had a player
Like me.
They had Mo Vaughn
In the ’90s
But after that,
Nothing
Like me.
I went there,
And my attitude
Changed everything.
Booed
I can’t control that.
I just like to come and play
The game and go home.
Sarah Green 
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Lyndsay 
Sarah, I’ve never seen anyone live blog a Spring Training game. I’d make fun of you, but I’m reading it intently. So… What does that say about us?