Sure, he wasn't perfect, but let's not forget what he achieved while he was here, Denton says, wagging his finger at all the new Manny haters out there:

Last time I checked, Manny Ramirez hadn't killed anyone. He wasn't named in the Mitchell Report for pumping his body full of steroids. He didn't cheat on his taxes or his wife. He never even rolled his vehicle over on the way home from the strip joint. So how did he become the most hated player in baseball? ...

In which Big Schill calls out Manny Ramirez. It's gone from 38 Pitches, but the thing about RSS is that nothing's ever really deleted, so Pink Hat Hell reposts the whole thing and adds in commentary on what Schilling can do with his undead post.

You'd think a former sportscaster who sued a cartoonist (successfully) for calling him a drunk might think twice before accusing a professional baseball player of throwing games. You'd think wrong.

Via Rich Levine, who argues that Lobel must be stopped, and not just because the column shows he has problems stringing sentences together coherently.

Earlier:
Lobel isn't even being original at this point.

Red Sock blows the lid of the doddering announcer's latest Ramirez ranting:

... But what of the specific claim that Manny forgot which knee was bothering him? It might be worthy of a chuckle if it did not come after more than 10 years of insults and unwarranted nastiness from both the Boston and national media.

Yesterday I tried to find out where it had originated from.

It turns out that McCarver was repeating that exact same story more than two years ago! ...

Rob refutes Bill Simmons on the issue of Manny Ramirez:

... Just to put a few facts out there: Manny Ramirez is a grown man. He's a goofy bastard, but he's no child. He hired Scott Boras, not the other way around. And as much influence as Boras may have wielded, it was still Manny who gave the green light in the end. It was still Manny who took three strikes in Yankee Stadium. It was still Manny who shoved a Red Sox employee to the ground, slapped Kevin Youkilis in public, demanded a trade, and faked injury in the middle of a pennant race. ...

He adds:

... The most irritating part of Simmons' rant is that he tries to come off as the voice of all Sox fans. He thinks himself Tribunus Plebis (tribune of the people) of Red Sox Nation. But it's difficult to have the pulse of a New England fanbase from Los Angeles. ...

From today's CHB column on Manny Ramirez:

"Trust me when I tell you that Sox wins and losses have zero bearing on my happiness."

And he started hating you the day he came to Boston.

Alas, as Joel Brown discovers, ABC's "Supermanny" show for this fall has nothing to do with our favorite ex-Manny.

If Barry Manilow had written a song about Ramirez.

Tip: If you're glad to see him go, turn the sound up. If you miss him, turn the sound off and just watch the slide show.

Via Jay Fitzgerald.

Stephanie Rogers shows an interesting ESPN marketing campaign in LA last week, involving a new player on the Dodgers.