MANNY RAMIREZ: BEST PLAYER

...and he's back

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/mannydrink.jpg

anyone who hates on manny hates on fun.

Or is a Yankee fan.

there's a difference?

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3484016&categoryId=2521705&n8pe6c=3

And Good Manny appears to be back: 1.400 OPS over the last week. He's so fucking streaky.

Wow, the curly-haired boyfriend is fucking PISSED.

just don't let him become Best Phillie

Phillips thinks it should be a Manny-for-Burrell straight-up deal.

Dunno why the Phillies would want to do that, especially if the trade hinges on Manny being released from the 2 team options left on his contract.

I'm just glad (relatively speaking) that the latest Manny kerfuffle is about his knee, and not about that stupid flushing-washcloths bullshit.

As for Daniel's little temper tantrum, I think he's just excited to have something negative to write about Sox-wise, after all the terrible success the team's realized over the past 4 years.

Sixtyish officemate's half-hour rant first thing this morning about how, in a just world, Manny would be "a bum in Scollay Square," self-derailed by angry sidebar about Bill Lee throwing the eephus = the absolute highlight of my first year at this job.

Part of me kinda hopes the Sox dump him and sign Bonds, just to see Shaughnessy evolve into a Thunderdome-style warlord leading a militia comprised entirely of pissed-off dudes of a certain age who remember how much better baseball was when they had the reserve clause.

How can someone be angry about Bill Lee throwing the eephus? Old folks be cranky and head-fucked!

I'm thinking this iteration of MannyGate is actually some sort of smokescreen to make people forget Lugo's under contract for another 2+ years and $18 million.

How can someone be angry about Bill Lee throwing the eephus?

because tony perez hit one onto lansdowne st in game 6 of the '75 world series?

also, shaughnessy is the worst type of columnist, the failed jock who has nothing but disdain for the athletes he covers. for christ's sake, he was the guy who was continually slagging on larry bird during his mvp years.

I guess the eephus rage means folks are still holding a grudge against Wakefield for 2003?

there's a difference between getting your best pitch slugged out of the park and getting a gimmick pitch that you toyed with slugged out of the park.

DaveR otm about relative outrage vs Lugo. I still think the Sox should pick up his option. Not my money, I know.

How To Fix The Manny Problem:

1) Persuade Globe to persuade Cincy paper to take on CHB and other Around The Horny fucksticks
1a) Eradicate all sports / Gawker Media blogs
2) Upgrade Fenway plumbing to allow for occasional facetowel disposal
3) Accept his well-established eccentricities / shortcomings
3a) realize there wouldn't be 2 World Series banners in Boston without his contributions
4) Give Manny $$$ for his 20-30 HRs, 80-100 BBs, and .280-.300 average
5) STFU and enjoy

is CHB on around the horny these days??

can someone explain to me Manny's beef with Boston mgmt?

ASK MANNY

Best guess is that Manny's pissed about not knowing what he's going to be doing next year. Probably catching a lot of will they/won't they static about his option years and Manny seems to do better with stability than no stability. I think he's rightly figured out that his options aren't getting picked up and he's trying to get out one way or another. I don't even know what to think anymore except why couldn't we have had a nice peaceful final year, given him the "it's been a good run" speech, and had an offseason mourning period?

6) Shut down WEEI.

That'd probably be 0.5), actually.

Randy Johnson recently reintroduced his eephus.

That's what she said ... ?

Yeah, I think the other things besides the contract with Manny are that he feels mgmt doesn't take him at his word re: minor injuries (rightly or wrongly), that his rep for dogging it precedes him no matter what he actually does, and that the Sox PR guys basically let him twist in the wind whenever his well-established eccentricities/shortcomings come to light.

I'm not saying he should get a pass for spin-kicking traveling secretaries, but honestly he kinda has a point about everything else.

Also non-local types should always keep an eye on bostonsportsmedia.com whenever Red Sox shit goes DEFCON 2; there's an entire galaxy of sub-CHB hacks at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune and Lynn Daily Item, &c. who basically just drop everything to see who can yell "HURRR BROWN PEOPLE" the loudest whenever it gets juicy.

Free of its racist intent, I'd love to run around yelling "HURRR BROWN PEOPLE," just because. Or maybe I want to just yell "HURRR" a whole lot.

See if wickedlocal.com needs a stringer, maybe?

FUCKING DID IT
I KNOW YOU DID IT
HURRR

(work in progress)

The anti-Manny obsession always has a undercurrent of playa-hatin Puritanism running through it.

govern yourself accordingly, you are my poster of the month

FUCKING DID IT
I KNOW YOU DID IT
HURRR

OT: apparently one of those kids is taking classes at the college where I work. If I could touch the hem of his garment.

posting the above @ 4:20 = perfect synergy

I'd never read the traveling sec'y story til today.

Lawrence Eagle-Tribune

it's just the eagle-tribune. they took the "lawrence" off the masthead almost a decade ago.

Gammons issues a brutal takedown of Manny on ESPN:

- Has habitually asked out against tough righties this year (Joba, King Felix, Verlander, etc.)
- All his teammates are sick of standing there and holding the bag for him
- Thinks he can get a 4 contract/$100 million as a free agent this offseason
- His teammates watched NYY dickheads Abreu, A-Rod, Damon take BP and longed for their professionalism.

Fuck, I just want to enjoy my regular-season baseball but the Sox never make it easy. There's little reason to watch this team these days unless Lester is pitching.

What the shit -- they're two games out of 1st place, and not even a year removed from winning the World Series! Fart in a cup and get over it!

Tonight they seemed absolutely listless. There's something missing, dunno what it is.

Wait, I'm retarded, THEY ARE ONLY .5 GAMES BACK, so plz chalk up any purported listlessness to this being late July and stow the sadsackery GAMMO in the overhead baggage compartment.

I would post the Manny-as-Van-Damme anigif, but I can't find it.

where is .gif of falling on his ass at Anaheim last week?

There are some real hall of fame diva acts going on these days.

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he's only leading the team in home runs and just barely out of the lead for ops but yeah, his teammates get misty over the sight of a .240 bobby abreu taking bp.

whatfuckingever gammons. i hope watching manny win another ring give you another aneurysm your crotchety old fuck.

ohboy, I thought only Yankee fans used "rings" like that

yeah, them and "football" fans lol?

Might be glue by now, but your semantical beefs are slightly eccentric, Morbs.