MANNY RAMIREZ: BEST PLAYER

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/4cac680017_manny_08012008.jpg

wtf is this lolcat font

I didn't realize Bay still had a arb-year left post-2009. Very nice deal for the Red Sox.

I don't think he does, actually -- from what I've heard, he's got enough time on his arb clock that he'll be a free agent after '09. Even so, tho, it's still a fair trade-off (until Bay comes up lame and Manny goes off for 20 HRs in August, of course).

enjoying all the Bay-bashing from our Steve Phillipses

WARP1, 2003-2008:

Manny 32.5
Bay 31.6

Preaching to the choir, Doc (tears of no-Manny notwithstanding).

I can't believe baseball found a way to make me hate Manny.

He'll be wearing #99 for the Dodgers.

Advertises at fenway ---> http://www.99restaurants.com/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2726446121_e113e8a93c_o.jpg

Meanwhile, the Globe saw fit to mark the end of the Manny era today by letting CHB loose with a front page feature. I think I need to put my brain on pause.

http://revver.com/video/1078343/fitzys-wicked-pissah-goodbye-manny-webcast/

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/articles/2008/08/03/dodge_ball_just_got_better/

Since joining the Dodgers (five games):

BA: .600
OBP: .636
SLG: 1.100
HR: 3
RBI: 7
R: 6

Manny: dogging it in July with the Red Sox, or feasting on pitching from the weaker league?

yes

You are right -- option C) both, is also acceptable.

Manny June: .930 OPS
Manny July: 1.060 OPS
Manny August: 1.730 OPS

So if dogging it means being an elite hitter instead of an otherworldly one, I guess I could be outraged that Manny didn't have a 1.500 OPS every season with the Sox.

His first HR as a Dodger was a grooved 86 mph fastball from Yusmiero Petit, who actually cannot throw the ball harder than that as a 20-somthing righthander. I can only imagine Manny thinking "is it always this easy over here?"

haha -- yeah, the dogging claims are some BS (mostly exacerbated by his WTF comments to the press), tho I couldn't help but get a little miffed when I saw Manny busting his tail out of the box during his first Dodger game. (I blame Gammo.) Clowns that say his hitting well doesn't mean he wasn't dogging it can chase a Hummer.

next level? sample size? crazy shit irregardless.

hey dere Manny!

Bay's numbers are pretty good so far for a boring Canadian.

not good enough to overcome being a boring canadian however.

>:(

http://www.tuboston.com/imgs/hed/124.jpg

(...)Es todavía increíble imaginarse a los Red Sox sin la picardía y la personalidad especial del dominicano. Si bien es cierto que su reemplazo, el canadiense Jason Bay, ha funcionado (casi robóticamente), la ausencia de Manny se sentirá y deja un hueco muy difícil de llenar.

Finalmente el beisbol es solo un juego. Y eso es justamente lo que Manny comprendía y disfrutaba como nadie.

casi robóticamente

yeah, i know, bit of a cheap shot.

This "Bay = stiff" bullshit is ... well, it's the sports media in a nutshell.

i wanna have jason bay's babies

make him an offer. i'll warn you though, healthy white babies are REALLLY expensive.

Bay's numbers are pretty good so far for a boring Canadian.

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, August 7, 2008 7:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^overlooked amidst 'lol Manny in NL'

Not by me - the guy is tearing it the fuck up

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/eticket/20080930/photos/eticket_g_manny13_412.jpg

Tim McCarver: "DESPICABLE"

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/news/story?id=3632077&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

Back in Philadelphia, McCarver told the Inquirer that he's seen the likes of Ramirez before in sports.

"Every sport, there have been people who have held organizations hostage, whether it be Terrell Owens or Randy Moss or Manny Ramirez," McCarver said.

Bless you Manny Ramirez for filling McCarver with rage.

lol look at message on scoreboard

hahaha good catch

"catch"

A few minutes earlier, Manny had stood outside the clubhouse, sipping on a juice box. It was passion fruit.

He shrugged.

“I gotta drive,” he said.

Yeah, the Dodgers have a ways to go still. Or maybe they don’t. But, they aren’t the Cubs. Sometimes, it only seemed like it.

PLASCHKE

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3644816

The Red Sox made the playoffs but eventually lost to the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Championship Series. Would they have won it all with Ramirez?

"Probably," Ortiz said. "I'm not going to lie to you, probably."

danggg

gotta <3 scott boras...

LA made a $45M/2yrs with a $15M third-year option which expires today and neither Boras nor Manny even responded to or acknowledged the offer... save for Boras' comment that they will start examining "serious offers" starting today.

Dude is 36 and this would be the 2nd highest per year salary in the history of MLB. Boras said he wants 6 years. No wonder he was unhappy in Boston.

http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/01/manny_rumors_highlight_mets_gl.html

$45M/2 years rejected again.

Coletti's calling Boras' bluff on other "serious offers".

Good for Coletti. I don't have anything against Manny personally, but I hope he gets punished in the wallet for ever shaking Boras' hand.

Neyer had something up the other day that boiled down to "the other GMs have decided that he quit on the Red Sox"

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3938665

Boras sets the record straighter.

yep, Neyer today appended that -- "Now we learn that the Dodgers' most recent offer apparently included deferred money. A lot of deferred money. Which changes the tenor of this discussion. A lot."