PHILADELPHIA -- Not too many people understand Brett Myers. Not too many want to. But Charlie Manuel does. Typical of him. What the Phillies manager understands about the 6-foot-4 240-pound Myers is that he needs the occasional nose-to-nose high volume conversation in the dugout with a man his own size, even if Charlie's 64, has survived cancer and two mild heart attacks. Manuel doesn't care. Play the game right, you'll laugh together. Play it wrong, as Myers did this summer when he showed up Manuel after being taken out of a game, and he's in your ... (more)