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    Does Manny Ramirez refuse to wash his batting helmet during the playoffs? It's filthy.

    Question #100198. Asked by star_gazer. (Oct 13 08 9:45 PM)


    leelee63

    		He doesn't wash it off during the regular season either. Doesn't want to get rid of the luck! (That was his excuse when he was out here, playing for the Red Sox.)

    Oct 13 08, 10:05 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Uni Watch is referring, of course, to players who smear pine tar all over their batting helmets. The Sox feature several charter members of this club, led by Manny Ramirez, who often spreads the gunk so thick that you can barely see his helmet logo. Other Bosox pine barons include Trot Nixon and Kevin Millar. And just to corner the market, the Sox made mid-season trades this year for longtime helmet-smudgers Orlando Cabrera (whose pine tar acumen had been honed with the Expos) and Doug Mientkiewicz (whose tar-smeared habits go back to his days with the Twins and the 2000 Olympic baseball team).

    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/041021

    Oct 13 08, 10:37 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Why?

    Oct 14 08, 5:56 AM
    zbeckabee

    		Why...what? The pine tar on the batting helmet?

    Apparently he hits the helmet at every at bat...voila...instant pine tar...voila...instant super grip.

    Oct 14 08, 7:08 AM
    Baloo55th

    		Oh. Another of those incomprehensibles of American sport. Worse than cricket at times....

    Oct 14 08, 7:31 AM

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