Manny Ramirez Is Secretly Renting a Room in the Scoreboard at Fenway

At some point, I'm going to stop believing that Manny Ramirez is Just Being Manny, and I'm going to start believing that he's rigged up a room with a 72 inch plasma, some Wii bowling and a king sized waterbed with a leopard skin duvet inside the scoreboard at Fenway. How else can you explain why he spends so much time in there?

Manny Ramirez had another Monster moment Sunday afternoon, climbing into the wall to sip on a sports drink during a pitching change in the seventh inning. When he was done, Ramirez tipped his cap to the Fenway faithful (left).

Last week, it was taking a phone call in there, and now, he's slinging product placement by drinking his Gatorade inside the big green thing. (No G2, Manny? For shame.) And really, why isn't he working some angle for a G2 endorsement? Think about it -- his own personal G2 lounge setup in the scoreboard. Um, yes please

Also, I'd like to know why this is happening in the middle of the seventh inning. I suppose it's alright, given that the Red Sox are in first place now though. But that kind of defines Red Sox Nation pretty well -- back in the day when they were losing, this sort of thing was borderline unacceptable. Now that they're winning, all of their fans ~~since 2004~~ just assume Manny's fine to come and go as he pleases.