Many sports fans think that the sport of baseball is nothing more than a bunch of lazy athletes who sit in a dugout all day long and spit sunflower seeds and chew bubblegum. When they do get on to the field, they stand in the hot sun until someone finally hits the ball in their direction for them to make the catch. It’s also the only sport to have a song that gives their fans instructions on how to stretch properly because the games take too damn long to finish on time. If the sport is boring, it’s hard to imagine how lazy the athletes who earn a living doing it all of the time can be described as anything but lazy. Let’s take a look at some lazy baseball players…

-When Manny steps into that batter’s box, it’s all business. There is no denying the guy can flat-out destroy a baseball. Ramirez is one of the top-three hitters in the game. It’s the rest of his game that leaves fans frustrated and annoyed with the outfielder. In one game, Ramirez missed a diving catch and was rolling over the ball, unable to find it.While playing with Cleveland, Manny would occasionally take himself out of games with ‘sore calves’. Not exactly an injury that requires a player to leave the game. Again in Cleveland, Ramirez successfully stole second base and inexplicably started jogging back to first. He was tagged out and was too lazy to follow the play and thought that it was a foul ball. Once during a call to the bullpen, he climbed into the Green Monster to place his own phone call. He’s too lazy to use up precious minutes on his own cell phone. On another occasion, he climbed into the green monster to go to the bathroom. After the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, Ramirez skipped the team’s visit to the White House. He was too lazy to meet President Bush. Of course, who can forget when Manny failed a drug test because the women’s fertility hormone hCG (a common masking agent for steroids), was found in his system. The ultimate lazy player uses steroids and then tries to cover it up with a masking agent in order to not get suspended by MLB.

In addition, Ramirez didn’t want to talk at all about baseball during spring training but instead used the time to talk about the grill that he had for sale on Ebay. The reason that he was selling the grill was because he was too lazy to ever use the device to cook anything on it. Where was Ramirez when Jimmy Rollins hit a walkoff double to seal a dramatic come-from-behind win in Game 4? He was in the shower while his teammates were all watching the game. It’s the playoffs and Ramirez didn’t care enough to stick around and watch the end of the game. These’s examples all helped to fuel an interesting quote on Manny being completely aloof. ‘That’s just Manny being Manny’.

-Alfonso Soriano is an average player who got a really big contract from the Chicago Cubs that paid him a lot of money. In 2009, his production fell off dramatically. Worse, the perception of his defense in left field (generally considered average with a good arm) turned dramatically sour after a stretch of what seemed like daily blunders. In a game against the Washington Nationals, Soriano cranked a hit deep down the right field line and the outfielder tripped in an effort to retrieve the ball. Soriano lollygagged on the ball and went for a triple instead of an inside-the-park home run because Soriano wasn’t running hard out of the batter’s box. During a July 4th game, one fan recounted how Soriano was watching the fireworks while the game was happening. Not while waiting for the inning to start. While pitches were actually being thrown, he was watching fireworks. In April, Soriano received a Gatorade bath from his teammates after hitting a game-winning RBI single. The only problem with that is that the team had over 101 losses that season and was the second worst team in the majors.

-In 2009, Hanley Ramirez won the National League batting championship. Ever since, he’s been accused of being a lazy player who doesn’t put in enough effort to get people out. Florida Marlins manager Freddy Gonzalez benched Ramirez after he jogged after a ball he kicked into left-field. After the game, Ramirez said he won’t apologize to his teammates and told reporters that he did not care what the manager did with his team, and that Gonzalez didn’t understand his play because he has no major league experience as a player. Ramirez also took a few shots at his teammates, saying that some of them are also failing to give their full effort. Jeff Conine (a former Marlin player) gave his thoughts on Ramirez in a recent radio interview. When asked whether Ramirez tries hard, Conine replied ‘I would say if you define that as not going out there and putting 100 percent on the field every day, yeah, I would say no he doesn’t.’ He was then asked if he would trade Ramirez if he was the manager on the team to which Conine replied ‘Yeah. I probably would.’ Even his own teammates think that he’s lazy. Fellow Marlin player Logan Morrison ripped Ramirez on Twitter for showing up late for a pregame meeting. We don’t know what gives with the family name ‘Ramirez’ but in baseball it’s synonymous with being lazy.

-Andruw Jones was once one of the biggest threats in all of Major League Baseball. He was awarded the Gold Glove nine consecutive years for his sensational defensive abilities. He became the youngest player to hit a World Series home run. He had an amazing career for more than 10 years and was sure to become a future hall of fame nominee. Suddenly, Jones stopped working hard and developed a poor work ethic which resulted in a severe drop in production. He was in the middle of his prime and was definitely one of the better players in the league. Less than two years later, he’s become a colossal failure for the Dodgers and no one else even wants him on their team. With his nonchalant manner in the outfield and the seemingly perpetual lack of full effort displayed, many believe he is a lazy, bloated waste of God-given abilities. While a member of the Braves, he was in manager Bobby Cox’s doghouse on more than one occasion for not playing the game as hard as he could. His blatant emotionless behavior came across as apathy. Jones is a prime example to young players of the importance of putting your work in daily and never becoming complacent in this game. At the age of 36, he’s no longer in MLB but helped the Rakuten Eagles of the Pacific League in Japan win their first championship in franchise history.

-C.C. Sabathia fans have never been able to tell how such a fat pitcher could be so incredibly good. His critics feel he’s typically a slow starter and doesn’t put in enough effort to lose weight and come in game shape for the start of the season. He’s making huge money and shows up looking like a middle-aged plumber every season. He went from being one of baseball’s most durable pitchers to having his worst statistical season. So what does the guy do? He has surgery on his arm and then loses lots of weight. He told Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal that he’s the same weight that he was last year, ‘Just a little more toned and a lot more strong.’ Losing weight would be a good sign for most athletes but not for Sabathia. The real issue is whether or not his belly (or lack thereof) functioned as a sort fleshy counterweight that allowed him to execute his mechanics properly. Leo Mazzone, a former pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves, said that through the years, he found that pitchers had weight and fitness levels that they were comfortable with. Dieting to reach ideal weights and working out to develop muscle tone do not necessarily help them pitch their best. It seems that eating Cap N’ Crunch and getting fat again might actually help Sabathia become a great pitcher once again.

Our next article will focus on lazy NFL athletes. At least in the NFL, if you’re fat or lazy, they cut your ass right to the curb. Until next time.

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