if i had to guess i would say his accent is from minnesota but wondering if anyones knows?
Assuming that at least a few people are as clueless as I, you are talking about the guy in This thread
A bio over at http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:SR5vx8e3oDoJ:www.usanetwork.com/specials/deepdiver/puig.html+puig+manny&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 says he was born in Cuba, moved to the us AT AGE 6, chasing gators at age 12(one assumes that St. Olaf had driven them all out of Minnesota by then).
Hard to believe he lived in Minnesota given the above.