Well, you can now add David Wright to the long list of people who either wouldn’t mind or are down right adamant with their want for Manny Ramirez to be a Met. A day doesn’t go by without there being an article on the subject or an entire segment on local sports talk radio basically dedicated to the topic.
Today while Wright payed a visit to the Schneider Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park he commented on the possibility of Manny being Met and how the clubhouse may react:
“I’d be on board with Manny 100 percent, assuming he put the team first,” Wright said he doesn’t know Ramirez well, but thinks the Mets have a good enough clubhouse mix to allow them to absorb the player who many in baseball think quit on the Red Sox last season to force a trade to the Dodgers.
“I think we have a good enough clubhouse — I don’t even know what he’s like in the clubhouse — I would hope we have a good enough clubhouse,” Wright said.
I for one can’t get over the fact that the Mets are not a player in this at all. But I don’t want to just repeat the same arguments over and over again so I guess I’ll just start begging: Please Omar, please Fred and Jeff Wilpon wake up and make this happen.
Quotes via Newsday
Update 7:20 – Newsday’s Anthony Rieber relays some quotes via a Bloomberg News report that has Jeff Wilpon claiming Omar has never even approached ownership about Manny:
Wilpon, the team’s chief operating officer, told Bloomberg News that general manager Omar Minaya is not interested in signing the free agent slugger.
“I know the perception out there again is that ownership said no,” Wilpon said. “I don’t have the opportunity to say no because Omar hasn’t brought it to me as an option. Omar and the baseball staff aren’t interested.”
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