Manny Ramirez Sucks At Golf: Red Sox Teammate David Ortiz Laughs at '#MannyBeingManny' on Twitter

By Joseph Trezza (joeseph.trezza@mstarsnews.com) | Dec 22, 2014 04:32 PM EST

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Manny Ramirez was known throughout his 19-year MLB career as one of the best all-around hitters of all time, as a hitter extremely difficult to strike out and as a hitter who rarely missed. But as it turns out, he can't hit a stationary golf ball.

No matter how hard he tries.

It's as funny as it sounds — the goofy, prank-happy Ramirez failing miserably while wearing pastel colors. His former teammate, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, thought so, too.

Ortiz trolled Ramirez on Twitter Monday, Dec. 22, posting a video of Ramirez swinging and missing at Ortiz's recent charity golf event. Ortiz took a video and ESPN placed Ramirez in the "Not Top 10."

Ortiz wrote, "#RedSoxNation at least many is a better baseball player than he is a golfer jajaja."

Ortiz also posted the video to Instagram. The jokester added the hashtag "#mannybeingmanny."

The 42-year-old Ramirez most recently played and coached the Triple-A Iowa Cubs, a minor league affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. In 2014, Ramirez hit .222 in limited playing time. Before that, Ramirez played in Taiwan after falling from MLB grace by failing a second drug test. With 555 career home runs and a .312 batting average, Ramirez was considered a slam-dunk Hall of Famer before it was proven he used performance-enhancing drugs.

He and Ortiz won World Series championships in 2004 and 2007 with the Red Sox, where they combined to produce one of the most feared middle of the lineups in baseball history. In the five full seasons they spent back to back in the Red Sox lineup, the dynamic duo combined to hit more than 77 home runs per year, according to Baseball Reference.

Apparently, that doesn't guarantee success on the golf course. Ramirez's swing looked almost as bad as that of Charles Barkley, the NBA Hall of Famer famous to an entire generation for basically sucking on the greens. Ortiz's charity event took place in the Dominican Republic and featured appearances from Robinson Cano, Pedro Martinez, Hanley Ramirez, Gary Sheffield, Steve Levy, Barry Larkin, José Bautista, Jim Rice, Adrián Beltré and others, according to its website.

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