He wasn’t in Chicago five minutes before Manny started being Manny. And forgot how to speak English. Sure enough, despite speaking English his whole career, he required an interpreter; coach Joey Cora to get him through yesterday’s q and a with the media. Sammy Sosa thinks that’s convenient. Granted, he hadn’t spoken to the media here all season so maybe he really did just forget how to speak the language.

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More likely, they were asking him to do something he didn’t want to do so he figured he’d just get Manny with it. You know like when he decided he didn’t want to be a Dodger any more, and got himself ejected after one pitch while pinch hitting a few days ago. Just Manny being Manny. And so is forgetting how to speak English the second he arrives in a new town and has to answer questions about why he did that, and why everything ends so miserably for him everywhere he goes. In addition to a grooming rule, the White Sox should have a translator rule, if you can speak the language and always have throughout your 18 year career, you can’t use a translator. I knew it would end badly there, I just didn’t think it would start badly.