The Best Of: Manny Ramirez

Manny Ramirez: A Retrospective

Posted 5/16/2008 on The Mighty Quinn Media Machine

MLB yanked the "Oriole Magic" YouTube clip, claiming some ownership privilege. But my buddy Dave sent me a link to the Awful Announcing web site, who posted a clip from ESPN of the Baseball Tonight crew, who did a "Best of Manny Being Manny" retrospective. It's the best of Manny Ramirez in all his goofiness, as well as some of his very best outfield plays. I missed it when it was first ...

Farnsworth's suspension reduced

Posted 5/9/2008 on Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog

Major League Baseball finally acted on Kyle Farnsworth 's appeal of his three-game suspension for throwing behind Manny Ramirez 's head. According to the AP , Farnsworth's suspension has been reduced to one game and will serve it tonight in Detroit. It's nice to see them get this right. Giving Farnsworth three games in the first place was excessive. He has not even ejected for the pitch. ...

Some Great Manny Ramirez Video

Posted 5/15/2008 on THE FANTASY BASEBALL GENERALS

From Baseball Tonight yesterday. There are some great clips here; my personal favorite is the cut-off play, executed in typical Manny style. Here is a link.

Holy High Five

Posted 5/15/2008 on It is about the money, stupid

It's difficult for me to actually cheer Manny, but (pardon the play on words) man-oh-man, that catch-high five with a fan over the wall-hit the cut-off man-double up the guy off first was both amazing and hilarious. Here's the summary from an ESPN.com summary : With runners at first and second and one out, Kevin Millar hit a drive to left. Ramirez made an over-the-shoulder grab on the ...

Great Scott! Luke Uses Force To Bury Sox, 5-4

Posted 5/14/2008 on SOX1FAN

Outfielder Luke Scott hit his second home run of the season and drove in three runs as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Red Sox 5-4 tonight in Charm City. Sox ace Josh Beckett had an uncharacteristically rough outing at Camden Yards as he surrendered five runs on eleven hits in 5 2/3 innings (He entered the game with a career record of 4-0, 2.05 in four starts). He was relieved by Manny ...

Krazy Kyle’s suspension for missing Manny reduced to one game

Posted 5/9/2008 on River Avenue Blues

Major League Baseball has knocked two games off of Kyle Farnsworth’s original three-game suspension for throwing behind Manny Ramirez’s back during an April 17 Yankees-Red Sox game. According to the AP , Farnsworth will serve his one-game suspension tonight. Post from: River Ave. Blues A New York Yankees blog