All this controversy about Manny Ramirez showering as the Phllies made their comeback is no big deal in baseball.
He’s being singled out because he has been categorized as one of the “bad guys”.
There’s a tradition that has developed in Major League Baseball where a pitcher or every day player will go into the clubhouse once he is removed from the game, shower get dressed and sometimes leave before the game was finished.
Nobody makes a big deal about it.
At times I witnessed this while covering MLB games, but I wrote it off as a baseball tradition which we never adopted in football. You would never see this happen in football.
Injury was the only reason you got showered and left before the game was over in an NFL game. You were headed to hospital to get some tests or treatment.
I remember Roger Clemens doing that a few years back when he was only in town and with the team when he was pitching. Sportswriters said nothing about it because during his career Roger was always categorized as a “good guy”.
This is a bogus story.
