latimes.com - 10/21/2009
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Ramirez says he was showering and missed the Dodgers' late collapse in Game 4. He should have been in the dugout, period.
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Jonathan Broxton was sweating. Russell Martin was fearing. Joe Torre was grumbling.
latimes.com - 10/21/2009
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latimes.com —
That's just what a team trailing three games
to one needs to hear. That the other guys...
are playing better and there's nothing they can do. On second thought, maybe it's better that our fertility drug fatale wasn't anywhere near the dugout. "I think ...
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Manny excuses for absence in the ninth just don't wash
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... But it only goes downhill from there. The LATimes' Bill Plaschke is obsessed with images of Ramirez in the shower, which is frankly a little creepy: ...
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... Manny Ramirez is getting killed in the press for taking a shower. The LA Dodgers left fielder was removed from Game 4 of the NLCS game against the Philadelphia Phillies, left the dugout, and went to the clubhouse. When asked after the game if he saw the Phillies two-out comeback, Ramirez told the press he was taking a shower: ...
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