"Manny Being Booed.

Yes, what Tampa Bay Rays fans there were at Tropicana Field on Tuesday night, 13,000 and change, had paid their way in and that gave them all sorts of rights, which is only right.

But those were boos, loud boos and a lot of them, for Manny Ramirez, and it seemed a bit much.

Even Pat Burrell got more than four games. Hell, he got months.

Never mind that hardly anyone else is hitting for the Rays, as they lost again, this time 5-3 to the Angels, to go 0-4 for the first time in franchise history, which is saying something given this franchise's history.

Manny Being Booed.

The Rays are four games into their season and they're four games out of first place in the AL East. True, so are the Boston Red Sox. Misery loves company.

But everything gets magnified when 0-4 is the start to your season, the season after so many guys walked out the door. The Rays are hitting an astounding .138 as a team, but you can't boo everybody, can you?

So there's Manny.

Ramirez left the clubhouse before media entered it Tuesday night. He would have beaten the traffic if there had been any traffic.

He had an awful night. He struck out his first three at-bats and fouled out near the Rays dugout. He is guessing. He is pressing. He is 1-for-16 as a Ray for a .063 average.

Johnny Damon, another old Red Sox star, is 1-for-11, though he scratched out his first hit Tuesday, though he also flied out with the bases loaded to end the seventh.

That's 2-for-27 from Johnny and Manny.

But Manny got booed.

He might not be alone for long, and we don't just mean Tampa Bay. Former Rays star Carl Crawford is 2-15 in his first four games as the Red Sox $142 million man -- think he won't hear it this weekend at Fenway Park if that, and the losing, keeps up?

Those boos would be ridiculous, too."