The Red Sox are confident it wasn't Manny just being Manny.

Manny Ramirez has apologized for pushing the team's traveling secretary to the ground in the visitors clubhouse during a confrontation Saturday in Houston, according to a report in The Providence Journal.

Ramirez had requested 16 tickets from Jack McCormick for Saturday's game against the Astros, the report said.

After McCormick said that might not be possible, Ramirez replied by yelling, "Just do your job," according to Monday's report.

Ramirez and McCormick later discussed the incident in a private meeting, during which the left fielder made amends.

"That's over," Ramirez said Sunday, according to the report. "We're fine now."

Boston manager Terry Francona said the team had resolved the matter and was "satisfied with how we handled this."

"Sometimes things happen," Francona said, according to The Journal. "And when they do, we choose to handle them internally."

Said McCormick: "It was an unfortunate misunderstanding and it's over with as far as I'm concerned."


It wasn't the first time this season Ramirez was forced to put a sour incident behind him.

Ramirez, who on May 31 became the 24th major leaguer to hit 500 home runs, had to be separated from first baseman Kevin Youkilis earlier this month after apparently taking a swing at him during a dugout argument.

"It's in the past," Ramirez said the next day. "It's a new day."


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After watching the new NESN commerical and hearing about this and death threats, Boston Red Sox are just a bunch thugs.

OK it's just one incident, the whole team will put it behind them.

Manny shoving Youk another incident though

Haha if Melky did this, THU would be congradulating him. Instead, the SOX R TEH THUGS!

Well its not jus tthis, if you watch the commerical they have been in a lot of fights. I thought chacon was being an ass for what he did. I don't even like melky...

Yeah how much of a thug do you have to be to... receive death threats... from some crazy fan... yeah, thugs do that.

Its more of all theirs fights against teams and in their clubhouse.

And gets away with it because he is Manny

Then why throw that in if it's not about that? Kinda pitiful to be reaching that far. How many fights have the Yankees been in? Probably about the same, different teams, but are the Yankees thugs too?

It's an internal team matter and he'll probably get fined by the team and that can be that, really simple huh?

IDK I've never seen a 70 second commerical on YES Network that had clips of yankees fights. Death Threats are for what black politicians and ghetto rappers.

And hey, you know I could pretty easily make some if I had the available footage, because a minite of footage, hell you could probably get at least 10 times that from any team. And I'd be willing to bet that there have been random anonymous threats against the Yankees as well as the Red Sox before. Not hearing about it doesn't mean that they didn't happen.

And haha, sup racism?

I doubt any other team would dip their class enough to be proud of fighting other teams. I know some fans would though. Farnsworth was a thug, wish he still was though, those glasses must make him a pussy or something.

Yep, but its the truth.

Gomes is a thug if thats helps you accept it.

And tell me, how many people in those clips are still with the team beyond the one this year? Making a clip of something for publicity doesn't make the players thugs, especially because most of the footage features people who are no longer Red Sox, or the one where a DRay charged the mound. News flash: any pitcher who has ever hit a batter is a thug.

And no, it's only true in your head.

Jason Varitek. Pedo is always running his mouth with non-sense too.

I'll bet you Obama gets flooded with death threats, especially if he gets in office.

Oh wow, 1 guy. Lets see if we can find 1 guy on the Yankees that was in a fight before this season.

And I bet you Bush does, and I bet you every single President that has ever held office has had death threats against him, and hey look, they're all white.

Well pedo hasn't done anything, but run his mouth. I will allow him to be downgraded to a punk. Your welcome bud.

I'm just saying they'll get it more than anyone. I know bush gets them, he has to.

So are all the Yankees thugs now too because this one guy got in a fight on their team?

And I'm just saying that that's pure and simple racism that is unbacked by anything resembling logic.

Well shelley is in triple-a, and headed for the DL probably after just an amazing catch. I'm not basing this off of one year, I'm basing it off of years. I guess you can make your accusations over Garcia and your fenway faithful attacking sheffield and sheff taking a swing back.

Or on fights with other teams, they've happened to the Yankees too. People in glass houses shouldn't be throwing any stones bud.

What a dick Manny is....the "It's in the past, this is a new day" is old. But of course he gets away with it because it's just Manny being Manny.