Ramírez lobbied to stay

• joejoejoe

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  This sounds like BS leaked by the Boston front office to make Manny look bad.

  Posted 8/3/2008 [reply] [flag]

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The First Day of the Rest of Your Season
Published 8/2/2008 by Red (noreply@blogger.com) at Surviving Grady
... There was something surreal in the air last night, for sure, seeing all those "Thanks Manny" signs and a skinny, dreadlock-free white guy patrolling Fenway Left. Even stranger is the news that in the final hours before he was cut loose, Manny lobbied to stay in Boston, promising to be an upstanding citizen for the balance of the season: ...

Manny Wanted To Stay?
Published 8/2/2008 by Alejandro Leal at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... The never-ending soap opera that was Manny Ramirez in a Red Sox uniform has one final gasp this morning. Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe is reporting that an hour after the trade had been completed and the veteran had been informed he was L.A.-bound, his agent, Scott Boras, called the Sox with one final offering: ...

Proof of a Boras Conspiracy
Published 8/2/2008 by The Omnipotent Q (noreply@blogger.com) at The Mighty Quinn Media Machine
... get a long term deal after the season from some other team. (Does he really think he's going to get a four-year, $100 million deal from ANYONE?) And you know as sure as shootin' that that weasel Boras was behind the whole thing. I'm convinced that once Manny hooked up with him last winter it would lead to trouble. And sure enough, he got his tentacles into Ramirez and trouble reared its ugly head. It's an eye-opening article from Mr. Edes, and well-worth checking out. Here it is.

Scott Boras Took Manny For a Ride
Published 8/2/2008 by Fenway West (odmatt@gmail.com) at Fenway West - The Boston Red Sox Western Home
In today's Globe Gordon Edes reveals an interesting development in the Manny trade: "Within an hour after Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein informed Manny Ramírez he had been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday, Ramírez's agent, Scott Boras, called the Sox back, according to a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations. If the Sox dropped the option years on his contract - which they had agreed to do if they traded him - Boras said Ramírez would not be a problem the rest of the season. For the Sox, the source said, Ramírez's pledge of good ...

Edes: Manny wanted to stay in Boston
Published 8/2/2008 by Randy Booth at Over the Monster
... The long-time Boston Globe writer is heading to Yahoo! to cover baseball (yesterday was his last day at the Globe), and his article today sort of dropped a bombshell: Manny Ramirez lobbied to stay with the Sox after hearing he was traded: ...

Oh please, don't let me go to L.A! I'll do ... [Manny Being Manny]
Published 8/2/2008 by Marcel Mutoni at Deadspin
... Oh please, don't let me go to L.A! I'll do anything you ask: "For the Sox, the source said, Ramírez's pledge of good behavior only served as a tacit admission that his disruptive conduct of the last couple of weeks had been calculated, and they had had good cause to suspect more was in the offing if they did not trade him. The Sox told him thanks but no thanks, what was done was done, and pack plenty of sunscreen." [Boston.com] ...

Ecstatically Helping My Friend Move
Published 8/2/2008 at Empyreal Environs
... Scott Boras ecstatically helped his friend Manny move, since the agent would benefit from the brokering of a new free agent deal and would not have profited if a team exercised the 2009 option. Boras did convey Manny's last ditch attempt to stay with the Red Sox, but the bridges were not only burned but rendered into subatomic particles. ...

Who Needs Raul Ibanez? Mets Promote, Start Murphy
Published 8/3/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Along with the fantastic claim Manny Ramirez all but begged the Red Sox to renege on Thursday’s trade with the Dodgers (that would’ve been a fun one to explain to the Commissioner’s office), the Globe’s Gordon Edes reports there was far from universal sentiment within Boston’s front office that dumping Manny was the right move. ...

Two Strange Manny Stories
Published 8/3/2008 by Scott (CEO) at BostonsportZ
... The first one is from Gordon Edes last column in the Globe as he heads to write for Yahoo sports.  ...

Good Old Fashioned A's Kickin'
Published 8/3/2008 by ssilva at Boston Dirt Dogs
... Globe: Manny Lobbied to Stay After Trade "If the Sox dropped the option years on his contract - which they had agreed to do if they traded him - Boras said Ramírez would not be a problem the rest of the season. ... For the Sox, the source said, Ramírez's pledge of good behavior only served as a tacit admission that his disruptive conduct of the last couple of weeks had been calculated, and they had had good cause to suspect more was in the offing if they did not trade him. The Sox told him thanks but no thanks, what was done was done, and ...

There They Go Again
Published 8/3/2008 by Jeff Kallman at The MLB Source
... “Within an hour after Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein informed Manny Ramirez he had been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday,” writes the Boston Globe’s Gordon Edes, “Ramirez’s agent, ...

Did Manny really beg to stay?
Published 8/3/2008 by Minneapolis Red Sox (noreply@blogger.com) at Siberian Baseball
... I just wanted to point everyone over to this strange little article from Boston.com (link via Deadspin) that claims Ramirez had his agent contact the Red Sox at the last minute to try and nix the trade. Once the team option had been dropped - making Ramirez an unrestricted free agent this offseason - he had hoped to return to the Red Sox with those conditions in place. ...

The Roundup: Al Davis is VERY Senile
Published 8/3/2008 by Patrick Imig at The Big Lead
Catherine Bell is back with us because she looks really, really good. You got a problem with that? I didn’t think so. Pointing out the defensive bias in Canton, Ohio. [SI] The sports world as seen through Family Guy. Stewie is actually the same height as Steve Smith, so it works.  [Josh Q Public] Manny Ramirez lobbied to stay in Boston, or so they’re saying. [Boston Globe] Walter Payton and Darrell Green probably could have been stud Olympians. [Fourth Place ...

Quite the Dead Show around these parts
Published 8/3/2008 by B-Reezy at The Sports Culture
... That’s just Scott Boras being Scott Boras — the Globe has a behind-the-scenes look at how the Manny trade went down. (Boston.com) ...

Baseball Today: Monday, August 4
Published 8/4/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... , but I get it. I really do . . . especially in light of Gordon Edes' story in the Globe on Saturday in which he reported Scott Boras promised that Ramirez would behave for the rest of the season if they didn't trade him, a promise the Sox took as "as a tacit admission that [Ramirez'] disruptive conduct of the last couple of weeks had been calculated, and they had had good cause to suspect more was in the offing . . . " Boras, of course, ...

Manny Wants To Finish His Career As A Dodger And Other Manny Silliness
Published 8/4/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... There was also a Boston Globe story indicating Manny had contacted the Red Sox after the trade to tell them he wanted to stay with that team that was ...

Sports Illustrated takes aim at local Red Sox reporting
Published 8/12/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... misguided media musings advanced in some cases by sworn Boras enemies." -- That rumors that Manny will go to the Yankees at the end of the season are horse puckey. "Don't believe that for a second," Heyman says. -- That Epstein's decision to claim Brian Giles was good business, even if it didn't work out. There's nothing particularly inflammatory about that last observation, but let's consider the first three for a minute. To start, Heyman is essentially saying that a report that an anonymously sourced report by Gordon Edes in the Boston Globe suggesting that Boras tried to ...