Heres what AJM thinks about a columnist (Steve Kelley) criticizing Ramirez over greedy comments:

http://www.lonestarball.com/2008/12/3/679141/kelley-professional-athlet

This sort of thing is ridiculous.

Professional sports columnist Kelley doesn’t like it?

Go cover intramurals, brother.

People have been proclaiming the end of pro sports because of overpaid, spoiled athletes for as long as athletes have been paid.

It is tiresome to read the crap spewed by some of these columnists who, it seems, are worn out by sports, who have stopped deriving any pleasure from professional leagues and seem to be rooting for things to fall apart.

And people like Steve Kelley — like a lot of fans, for that matter — seem all too willing to pop the players for this, when at the end of the day, they are simply out there seeking to get paid what the market will bear.

They are the proletariat, taking advantage of the capitalist system.

Manny Ramirez isn’t the one that chooses to hold a community hostage and threaten to leave if there isn’t a new publicly funded stadium built.

This crap pisses me off. Angry old men ranting about spoiled athletes making too much money and not acting right, and then trying to extrapolate it into some larger point about the economy at large, simply serve to display their own foolishness.

I’d love for Steve Kelley to tell me how Manny Ramirez taking less money would make the price of Citibank stock go up.

LOl, seems like AJM is pretty darn upset at those “angry old men” when they dare accused his favorite players of being mercenaries..

But he posts a “gold digger” video for Teixeira, right..I guess he’s an “angry old man” according to his own column..

Whatever happened to "
They are the proletariat, taking advantage of the capitalist system." LOL