montster Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 please bid on his grill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncosn05 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Just him standing next to a grill. Saw it on PTI just like you did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montster Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 Just him standing next to a grill. Saw it on PTI just like you did. actually someone forwarded to me. those photos rule. i wish he had been holding up today's newspaper, though -- i don't want to get scammed when i bid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 he bought it for 4 grand, used it once, and starts the bidding at $4800? oohh, but manny ramirez fried a burger on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Or who wants to punch him in the grill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 well someone out there must have to replace a busted grill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furd Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Or who wants to punch him in the grill? I thought that it was grille? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddy Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 JERRY: Hey! Did you get the Volvo? GEORGE: No, I decided to go with an '89 LeBaron. ELAINE: A LeBaron? JERRY: I thought Consumer said Volvo was the car. GEORGE: What Consumer? I'm the consumer. JERRY: Alright. Seems like...a strange choice. GEORGE: Well, maybe so...but it was good enough for Mr. Jon Voight. ELAINE: Jon Voight? The actor? GEORGE (boasting): That's right. He just happened to be the previous owner of the vehicle. JERRY: You bought a car because it belonged to Jon Voight? GEORGE (defensive): No, no... JERRY: I think yes, yes. You like the idea of telling people you're driving Jon Voight's car. GEORGE: Alright, maybe I do. So what. . . . . New scene - George and Jerry driving along in John Voight's car. George is humming the tune to "Everybody's Talkin.'"] GEORGE: So? JERRY: C'mon, put the top up, it's November! GEORGE: I feel alive, Jerry. JERRY: Let's check out the glove box. (Opens the glove compartment, takes out a pencil.) Ah. Pencil. GEORGE: Hey...you don't think...sure, that's Jon Voight's pencil! JERRY: With Jon Voight's teeth marks. (Looks at the owner's manual.) Owner's manual...you know what? This car was owned by Jon Voight. GEORGE: Ah! See? I told ya. JERRY: Except Jon is spelled with an H. J-O-H-N. GEORGE: So? JERRY: Doesn't Jon Voight spell his name J-O-N? GEORGE (pulls over): So, what are you saying? JERRY: Nothing. I'm sure "Jon" probably mispelled his own name. I know sometimes I spell Jerry with a G...and an I! (Laughs uproariously.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 A buddy sent that around to me. Funny. My friend in Boston claims it can't possibly be Manny because it looks like a Ford Escort behind him in the garage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untateve Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 please bid on his grill [elitestEggsnob]That's not a grill. That's an outdoor gas stove.[/elitestEggsnob] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncosn05 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Betcha the guy just changed his name for this item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spain Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 [elitestEggsnob]That's not a grill. That's an outdoor gas stove.[/elitestEggsnob] Sounds to me like someone has grillis envy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowboutthemCowboys Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 current bid $5400. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czarina Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 FORT MYERS, Fla. -- "Mirabelli, I'm a businessman," Manny Ramírez yelled across the clubhouse to Doug Mirabelli with a smile. "Got to make a little money." Ramírez sat down at his locker, laughter and incredulity still marking the faces of his teammates. And then it came, the first words spoken by the enigmatic Red Sox slugger all spring to a member of the media, "My neighbor's." There's shock, there's confusion, and then there's Manny Ramírez acknowledging that he's helping his neighbor by selling a Jenn-Air grill on eBay. Only moments before Ramírez walked into the Red Sox clubhouse, David Ortiz's booming laugh had filtered through the air, the big man nearly keeling over with merriment. The television, turned all the way up, had shown a segment of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" devoted to a curious story that had been making the rounds all day. A grill had turned up on eBay with a bizarre message and a series of seven photographs, among which were two of Ramírez standing next to the silver piece of heavy-duty cooking equipment. "Hi, I'm Manny Ramirez," reads the ad, listed under the seller "mannyramirez1524," a member since March 18. "I bought this AMAZING grill for about $4,000 and I used it once . . . But I never have the time to use it because I am always on the road. I would love to sell it and you will get an autographed ball signed by me =) Enjoy it, Manny Ramirez." So in the interests of journalistic integrity (and with an extreme curiosity), a reporter approached Ramírez. (OK, it was this reporter.) Is the grill yours? Is the ad true? He said it wasn't. He agreed about a week ago to help out a neighbor in Weston, Fla., by advertising the grill as his own to drive up the price. Well, you could say that tactic worked, but neither Manny nor his neighbor is likely to collect on the bids that were being posted last night. With someone clearly having fun with Ramirez's gambit -- would his teammates be above suspicion? -- the bidding was up to, ahem, $99,999,999 around midnight last night. And the only reason it didn't go higher was that the eBay bid window couldn't handle more digits. The mysterious cyber-bidders may have been pranking, but earlier in the day, Ramirez was talking -- for real. That's exceptionally rare for a man who makes it a policy to avoid the media, and hasn't spoken to them since he arrived at spring training -- last season. Asked how he was feeling this spring, he answered, "Good." Then the baseball questions came, and the conversation slowed considerably. He didn't want to talk baseball. He didn't want to talk about Boston or trade requests. He didn't really want to talk at all. "I'm just here to play the game and enjoy it," Ramírez said. "All the things that I do, I enjoy. I'm not here to talk to [the media]. I'm here to play the game. "That's me, you know. The same. Everywhere I go is the same." He wanted to "have fun with his friends," rather than explore his place in baseball history or explain how he wanted his fans and his critics to see him. He was polite, not expansive, and gave his head quite a workout with all the shaking and nodding, mostly to indicate the negative. So when will he talk? When will he fill the ears of all those people clamoring for the wisdom of Manny? When will he say whether or not he requested trades all those years? When will he let everyone know just what it is about the Red Sox that isn't to his liking? "When I retire," Ramírez said. "I don't need to talk to you guys. Because I'm a private person. I'm good." That was it. But it was something, far more than he's said all spring, more than he said all of last season. Not much about baseball. A little about his personality. Much more about that ad. So for those of you in the market for a grill, you have seven days and counting. Item No. 120099426399. But you might need $100 million, to get it straight from Manny Ramírez's neighbor's house to yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untateve Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Sounds to me like someone has grillis envy... You have keen insight. When I went to Eggtoberfest in Atlanta last october, there were quite a few people who had 2 and 3 Eggs. I was green as my Egg with envy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egret Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 That's just Manny being Manny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylive5 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Appears that the bidding is now up to twenty grand. Wonder if the high bidder knows they can go to just about any store and pick up a grill a tiny bit cheaper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAYER Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Appears that the bidding is now up to twenty grand. Wonder if the high bidder knows they can go to just about any store and pick up a grill a tiny bit cheaper? But you also get an autographed baseball from Manny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylive5 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 But you also get an autographed baseball from Manny. Forgot all about the baseball. Geeze, where's my head at this morning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 If its manny's , that grill has seen a lot of HOTDOG's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeteebee Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I guess I won't be winning this auction. degrilled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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