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I was referring to on-field shenanigans. ON-field. Off the field, many ML ballplayers can be idiots. No big deal. But there are not that many players who have pulled the chit on the field that Manny Ramirez has. Can that honestly be denied?
And yes, the fans still love him. But not nearly as much toward the end of the season, for sure. Even the Boston sports writers were tiring of his antics - and wrote as much. And if you read some of the articles in the baseball magazines, you'll see many writers have offered the same.
As for him in New York - as I said, I don't think the fans would tolerate him. Not for long, anyway. That's my opinion. But chances are good we'll never know.
Being neither a Red Sox nor a Yankee fan, I'm not bridled by blind fan devotion. So we non-fans can be a bit more objective. Not necessarily more accurate in our opinions, just more objective.
By the way, I'm not about to defend Yankee players - the ones you mentioned in your post in particular. As said, I'm not a Yankee fan anyway, and I definitely don't care for Steinbrenner.
Ramirez is, of course, a gifted batter. But I can't remember any ball player who's pulled more on-the-field stunts and blunders as he has. But yet, a large segment of the fans love him. "He's our Manny", as the expression goes. Ya' gotta' love it.
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