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Doug Mirabelli, whom San Diego GM Kevin Towers excoriated earlier in week, replied in the Boston Globe.
Mirabelli was both upset at Towers for revealing what he considered a private conversation, but he also started speaking of himself in the third person.
``Considering the timing and how long I've been away from there, it seems unfortunate," he said. ``It seems unfortunate for me to have left that opinion with anybody.``These guys have seen me around here a lot. To be taken so literally on some occasions was unfortunate. I don't apologize for wanting to come back here to Boston. I do apologize for the fact that if he has that strong of an opinion of Doug Mirabelli over a month or two months of time, I didn't do my job as a player or a person. I wouldn't want that opinion of me by anybody. That's not the perception of Doug Mirabelli that I would want anywhere."
But Rickey Henderson just uses his first name when he does the third person talking bit.
I don't know where that boundary is, but Mirabelli's nowhere near it.
Where's Josh Beckett? Hasn't he taken care of this yet?!
The Rickey Line, below which a player may not refer to himself in the third person, is at .401 OBP. Doug Mirabelli's overall OBP this year is .272. Ergo, he needs a tall glass of STFU.
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