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Closing Time: What's the frequency, Manny?
Published 7/26/2008 by Scott Pianowski at Roto Arcade
... • Manny Ramirez (knees) took himself out of Friday's lineup even though MRIs earlier in the day came back clean. Can we take Ramirez's self-imposed scratch at face value, or is there something else at play here? Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe feels that Manny may have finally exhausted his goodwill with the club, perhaps forcing the team into some sort of action. Stay tuned. ...

Punchless.
Published 7/26/2008 by Red (noreply@blogger.com) at Surviving Grady
... Far more interesting is the increasingly bizarre Manny Situation. With the trade deadline on the horizon, might Theo be working some backroom magic to send Manny packing? I say not bloody likely. But I'm always wrong. Except for that time I told my buddies not to trust that woman with the goatee.

Shaughnessy: Manny Ramírez: Now he’s a guaranteed out
Published 7/26/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Shaughnessy: Manny Ramírez: Now he’s a guaranteed out The latest from that cynical nitwit (that’s it?...odd) Dan Shaughnessy. Ramírez sealed his fate with the club yesterday afternoon. After longtime enabler Terry Francona filled out a lineup card with Manny batting fourth, the Sox made an announcement that Manny could not play in the biggest game of the season. Seems there were problems with his right knee. Manny was a late scratch. ...The possibility exists that Manny truly has a sore right knee. No one can get inside the head of an athlete and evaluate game-readiness. If ...

Miller, Ramirez are polar opposites
Published 7/26/2008 by Mario A. at Wax Heaven
... It seems the legendary Manny Ramirez has officially burned the last bridge in Boston and it’s almost a guarantee the Red Sox will not pick up his $20 million dollar option for next year. It’s now inevitable that Manny will likely end his career in very Bonds-like fashion and possibly on the New York Yankees of all places. ...

Get Him Gone?
Published 7/26/2008 by ssilva at Boston Dirt Dogs
... Is This Latest Disappearing Act the Last Straw for Manny? Does Ramiez Really Wants to Write His Ticket Out of Town? Only Manny, and an Empty-Pocketed Scott Boras Know Friday Night Box: Shift on Giambi 1, Return on the Investment in Manny 0 Globe: Ramirez's Absence a Hot Topic as Yankees win 7th Straight Shaughnessy: Now Manny's a Guaranteed Out Buckley: Time to Get Rid of Ramirez Edes: Sox Player Calls Manny Missing Game a Disgrace McAdam on Saturday: Ramirez Faces Penalty If He Sits ...

Around the Horn...Sox/Yanks Style.....
Published 7/26/2008 by Red Sox Nation Daily at Red Sox Nation Daily
... Last days for Man-Ram...for a guy that says he loves in Beantown and would like to finish his career there...Manny sure acts like a guy trying to get a one way ticket to somewhere else-ville...Hey Manny...no matter what Scott ( Satan Boras) Boras tells you...NOBODY else would be stupid enough to pay an aging player 20 million dollars a year..... ...

Bronx Banter: Manny Being Manny: That's All I Can Stand I Can't Stands No More Edition
Published 7/26/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... Ramirez has angered management, his teammates and even the fans at different points during his stay in Boston by not running out ground balls, coming up lame with dubious injuries, and acting like a spoiled child. He has also been the anchor--or co-anchor along with Ortiz--of their two World Championship teams. And when he's doing his thing, he's just a flake, irrepressible, lovable. Ramirez has pushed the Sox to the brink in the past--they once placed him on waivers--but now, as Dan Shaughnessy suggests in the Boston Globe , the Sox may have finally had it with Manny being ...

Latest On Manny
Published 7/26/2008 by Zach Hayes at Fire Brand of the American League
... last night with a final, “we’re not happy Manny isn’t in the lineup” comment. Francona is about to meet with the media 20 minutes late as I type this. Stay tuned to see if Ramirez is in the lineup. If not, the Red Sox could suspend Ramirez for faking his knee injury, and this could get really ugly. Why Manny would pull something like this is beyond me. Reportedly once player called the Manny situation “a disgrace.” Dan Shaughnessy and Buster Olney weigh in on the situation. This makes me believe ...

Throwing it around
Published 7/26/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (TheNaturalMevs) at Diamond Hoggers
... even worse, we think. Hopefully by this time next season we feel normal again. It's saturday and here's the baseball related content that was worthy of a linky. Not long from now college football will be catching many's focus on these days. -MLB.com's Iphone baseball application is a joke. We still want an Iphone though. [Deadspin] -The Red Sox have had it with Manny Ramirez. Again. Yeah right. [Boston.com] -Mike Hampton is making his first start in ...

Might Sox Try To Trade Ramirez?
Published 7/26/2008 by Cork Gaines at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
Dan Shaughnessy says that Manny Ramirez' latest incident was the final straw for the Red Sox. It was extraordinary. In the past, management and the manager would do handstands to excuse Manny's strange acts. No more. This time, the manager - apparently confident there's nothing wrong with the slugger - put Manny's name in the lineup, then sat and waited for Manny to pull himself out of the lineup. Manny complied. Never concerned with wins or losses, Manny told Brad Mills he was unable to play and took himself out of the batting order for the (thus far) ...

Life In The Fast Lane: Yanks-Sox Gamer XI
Published 7/26/2008 by attackgerbil at YFSF
... ·· Manny Ramirez' knee feels better and he's back at cleanup. If he didn't play, rumor has it his pockets would have been lighter, and by bearing less weight it would have helped his knee anyway so win-win. Shaughnessy's sure he's a goner, and soon. ...

Afternoon Red Sox Delight - 7/26
Published 7/26/2008 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
... I’m guessing that Manny isn’t probably too happy with the media coverage about him lately but it is his own doing. ...

Did Manny Ramirez have the blue flu?
Published 7/26/2008 by Billy Krumb at Clubhouse Cancer
... The Red Sox have had it with Manny Ramirez, Dan Shaughnessy writes in the pages of today's Boston Globe. Ramirez sat out last night’s game against the Yankees after telling Sox management he had a ‘sore knee’. The demand by Ramirez, who has made it well-known he is unhappy with his current contract situation, came after manager Terry Francona had already penciled the slugger’s name into the lineup. The Sox were forced to juggle the lineup, and despite the return of David Ortiz, lost the game, to Joba ...

Could The Mets Somehow Pry Manny Ramirez From Boston?
Published 7/26/2008 by The Mets Police (noreply@blogger.com) at The Mets Police
Summery Saturday and I have nothing to write about so I'll throw it out there. The word from Boston (heard Sterling mention, then looked it up on Boston.com) is that The Sox have had it with Manny Ramirez. The Mets kind of have nobody in the outfield.   Manny, while older, is going to the Hall of Fame. Now adding Manny Ramirez to the Mets falls in line with everything I hate (Red Sox on the Mets, I'd rather lose with my own players than win with yours, plus he pushes executives to the ground), so I'm not saying I want Manny Ramirez, ...

Boston media celebrates annual “Fuck Manny Day”
Published 7/26/2008 by B-Reezy at The Sports Culture
... Series championship thing took some attention away from the saga, but ever since, Manny has demanded, then undemanded, then redemanded, the reundemanded a trade each off-season. Over the course of such time period, talk radio devoted months of airtime, newspapers invested mini MannyGate printing presses, and NESN came thisclose to launching NESN2: The Manny Channel. Now, it’s on, once again: Today was “Fuck Manny Day” in Boston. Dan Shaughnessy called him out like never before. Steve Buckley did, too ...

The Villification of Manny Ramirez
Published 7/27/2008 by California Correspondent at Sports Crackle Pop
... Today Theo Epstein voiced his unhappiness with Ramirez when he said the Sox are open to trading him if he waives his no-trade clause — and the media continues to flame the Ramirez fire. Even the ...

Rumor Mill Roundup: July 26
Published 7/27/2008 at FanHouse
... was a very late scratch for Friday night's game against the Yankees, which the Red Sox lost 1-0, and the Boston Globe's Dan Shaugnessy is wondering if this is the final straw for the slugger in Boston. "Manny Being Manny" is a mantra that has come to mean many different things over the years, and part of it are these little dramas, which usually come to nothing. But the Red Sox have an option on Ramirez for next year, one they aren't even certain they will pick up, so perhaps this time it really is THE time to explore finding Ramirez's replacement. That means a ...

Would the Red Sox Trade Manny Ramirez?
Published 7/27/2008 at FanHouse
... Today in the Boston Globe, Dan Shaughnessy published a story that seemed to indicate that the Red Sox were finally growing tired for Manny's shenanigans. That in itself isn't really noteworthy, but it is in conjunction with some statements made by ...

Manny Being Petulant
Published 7/27/2008 at FanHouse
... is certain of it, so certain in fact his new book called The Curse of Manny Ramirez: Why The Red Sox Keep Winning is set to hit bookshelves next week). I tend to agree that Manny was likely faking it, but we shouldn't ignore the fact he pulled himself out of a game against the Mariners earlier this week due to the same thing. ...

Lifeless
Published 7/27/2008 by The Omnipotent Q (noreply@blogger.com) at The Mighty Quinn Media Machine
... The Manny Ramirez saga continues, as the Curly Haired Bastard at the Boston Globe said today that Sox are fed up with Manny and are exploring a possible trade at the deadline this coming week. I honestly don't believe it will happen, as the Red Sox can't get anywhere near Manny's value. And with all the thomfoolery going on with him now, who would want to take him on? ...

The Sunday Morning Post: Plenty For All
Published 7/27/2008 by Lloyd The Barber at Walkoff Walk
... , they keep coming back. Robinson Cano warmed the cockles of Joe Morgan's heart with a double, a fried potato product and three rib eyes. Just as Cano's mental second half arrived like clockwork, so has the annual "Whatever shall we do about Manny" storyline. Cue the ...

Everybody Hates Manny
Published 7/27/2008 by Aaron Gettings at BostonsportZ
... championships.  And I can't imagine a Boston fan (particularly a Red Sox fan) who'd ever kick a guy outta town for that." Well, screw that.  Let's get this guy outta town.  Quickly. I don't mind it when, instead of catching a fly-ball, he lays down on the ground and rolls around.  I'm OK with a slowly declining stat line.  Hell, I can even handle some violent flare-ups. What I can't stand is a player quitting on his team. From Dan Shaughnessy of the Globe: It was extraordinary. In the past, management and the ...

ManRam Could Be on the Move Out of Boston
Published 7/27/2008 by Will Brinson at SPORTSbyBROOKS
It would be extremely difficult to imagine Manny Ramirez in anything other than a Boston Red Sox jersey. Yes, I know that he established himself as a monster at the plate while with Cleveland, but when I think of the double finger point, MBM and all the crazy goodness that comes with ManRam, I think of Boston. Really it’s the only thing keeping me from liking the Yankees more at this point. Manny But all of that could change. And might be changing, writes Dan Shaughnessy of the BOSTON GLOBE . Actually, Shaughnessy says it is changing. And that Manny is more or less already ...

Manny being on his way out of Boston?
Published 7/27/2008 by Ben K. at River Avenue Blues
... . If Manny is exiled from the Red Sox, as Dan Shaughnessy feels he will be, he’s bound to become a free agent this off-season and would be an intriguing option for the outfield for a couple of seasons. The Yanks could do worse if they wanted to keep the spot warm until Austin Jackson is ready for prime time. ...

Tizzy
Published 7/28/2008 by Texas Gal at Center Field
I don't know whether you've heard or not, but there appears to be a bit of a freak-out in progress over one Manuel Aristides Ramirez. Predictably, CHB has shared his rational, well-reasoned and not-at-all-biased thoughts on the issue (not just once, but ...

Jet Lag, Deadline Drama, and Endless Patter
Published 7/31/2008 by Jay (noreply@blogger.com) at The Futility Infielder
... organ the way some of those famous Boston writers do. I'll be weighing in on the Yankees' deals and those of everybody else several times over the next two days at Baseball Prospectus, via the upcoming Hit List, a ...

Prospectus Hit List: After the Storm by Jay Jaffe
Published 8/1/2008 at Baseball Prospectus
... knee tendonitis punches his ticket out of Boston, and the Sox trade him to the Dodgers in a last-minute three-way deal, replacing him with Jason Bay , and surrendering spare parts ( Craig Hansen , Brandon Moss , the remainder of Manny's 2008 salary) to round things out. It's a typically ugly end to a favorite Red Sox ' career in Boston (see Nomar Garciaparra , Jim Rice , Luis Tiant , et al), accompanied by the swell of house organs to play him off the Beantown stage, and while one can argue Ramirez's ...