I just think it shows character. Of course the players get paid to give it their all on the field and that's all the fans should expect from them, but in such a media friendly society anything the players say or do reaches the fans, however unfair that is. I just don't appreciate unprovoked statements and a lackadaisical attitude toward something that I absolutely love and would like to think everyone out there on the field actually playing has even more passion and intensity than I do. This is not a perfect world of course, but I don't know how many more "Manny being Manny", and "Foule being Foulke"'s, I, or baseball, can stomach.