Yes, he is an annoying selfish douchebag. The next time he stands at home plate admiring one of his homerruns he better get plunked hard. Hopefully Joba or Phil Hughes can take care of that. I wonder if them never hitting Manny for being a jackass was a Torre thing or because they had guys like Mike Mussina and Kei Igawa starting games.

And I don’t know if Manny is actually lazy. He doesn’t seem to care about fielding, which is why people get that impression. But everybody says he works hard to stay in shape and spends a lot of time taking extra batting practice — and it’s pretty obvious that that practice has been effective.

That said, he’s an annoying douchebag, who cares more about himself than his team or the sport.

It may actually be interesting to see what effect this has on Punto.

But really, its quite the odd couple. Punto is a very hard working player but has no natural ability, talent or baseball skills to speak of. Manny on the other hand is very lazy, but has ungodly amounts of talen and ability.