Manny: Incident with Red Sox official is 'over with'

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Quevedo's Quorner
Published 7/4/2008 by Chip Wesley (noreply@blogger.com) at Thunder Matt's Saloon
... Manny Ramirez pushed the Red Sox traveling secretary for stepping on his Oakley Thumpz not getting him 16 tickets to an upcoming game. "Pushing the traveling secretary" is the new "Choke-slamming your GM". ...

Baseball Divas
Published 7/5/2008 by Peter Schiller at Baseball Reflections
... that ended with the shoving to the ground of a club employee by a player. This time it was over tickets. A team’s travelling secretary is the person who can get players tickets for family and friends on the road, when possible. The players usually get allotted tickets for each road game and it is the job of the travelling secretary to act as the team’s concierge. This time Ramirez had asked for 16 tickets on game day and when McCormick told him that it might not be possible, the ESPN story , based on the original story in the Providence Journal, said that a confrontation began ...