We’ll tap the pause button on the first day of what traditionally is the sssssslowest week on the NFL calendar to share something that a reader pointed out to us.

In baseball, there really is a traveling secretary.

We just assumed that it was a made-up job when George Constanza landed a gig with the Yankees as the “assistant to the traveling secretary.”  And we’ve been under that incorrect assumption until moments ago, when we learned that Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez has apologized for shoving Boston’s traveling secretary to the ground.

It’s unclear why Ramirez was miffed at the traveling secretary.  Based, however, on Costanza’s experiences with the Bronx Bombers, there are several possibilities:  (1) messing with players’ swings; (2) changing the fabric for the uniforms; (3) running around the field in a body suit; (4) dragging the World Series trophy in the parking lot; and (5) telling Ramirez that he had sex with Ramirez’s wife.