Welcome to Mannywood

By Jeff Bradley
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Everybody being Manny. Imagine that. Imagine every single player in the big leagues, all 750 of them, "Being Manny." Crazy? Sure. A little scary? Absolutely. But, believe it or not, most of them would sign up for that right now. Maybe not the whole package, like the part where Manny half-asses it down the line on ground balls or forgets how many outs there are while playing defense. Not the part where Manny gets into dugout shoving matches or, much worse, a physical confrontation with a 64-y ...

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