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Manny Ramirez
By adamg - 8/20/08 - 11:05 am
Alas, as Joel Brown discovers, ABC's "Supermanny" show for this fall has nothing to do with our favorite ex-Manny.
By adamg - 8/6/08 - 1:39 pm
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.
By adamg - 8/5/08 - 8:16 am
Stephanie Rogers shows an interesting ESPN marketing campaign in LA last week, involving a new player on the Dodgers.
By adamg - 8/4/08 - 8:54 am
Red Sock cannot believe the yahoos holding up WEEI-published signs reading "Manny Who?" at yesterday's game:
... Shame on everyone who not only took one of the signs, but was enough of an idiot to actually hold it up during the game. As I have said before (after Keith Foulke was booed in 2005, if I recall), I would love to have the power to erase the memories of these "fans" of everything Red Sox-related after Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS, because they do not deserve to remember and forever savour what came afterwards.
Meanwhile, Beth tries to sum up all those years with Manny:
... It was while watching Papelbon that it suddenly felt to me like I was getting acquainted with this team all over again. I might not be glad Manny's bat is gone, but I was, at that point, very glad that the Subject of Manny was gone. The team looked like it had collectively exhaled for the first time in a week. ...
Kristen longs for another trade:
... Now, what can we do about trading Ken Macha to Kansas City? Look, I'm sure Macha's a nice guy, but he is Ambien in a suit. ...
By adamg - 7/30/08 - 9:13 am
Pink Hat Hell considers how Sox management always tries to destroy big-name players right before they get rid of them:
... By the time Derek Lowe was gone, you'd have thought the guy needed an elephant-sized dose of Lithium just to get out of bed in the morning. ...
By adamg - 7/29/08 - 10:05 am
Paul McMorrow gets an earful from a Bangladeshi cabbie who drove him home from last night's Meltdownsuzaka:
... These guys forget where they came from. I'm from a place like that. Dollars, man - that's a lot of money in some places. If I were him, if I could hit like that, I wouldn't playing around for $20 million. All I'd need is $1 million over two years. Why do you need more than that? ...
Meanwhile, Adam Hart suggests Manny-hating Peter Gammons should wipe the spittle off his face and stop claiming Ramirez takes himself out of the lineup against hard throwers, by researching each of Manny's off days.
By adamg - 7/26/08 - 8:27 am
Peter is fed up:
... How could he decide to take a night off when the team, HIS team, was playing the Yankees, the red hot New York Yankees who, with the win, closed to within two games of Boston? I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER, but the club should (will?) have a sitdown with him and set him straight. They have to! Wait until you hear the boos later this afternoon. ...
By adamg - 7/7/08 - 11:43 am
From Manny's silly plate appearance to the alleged bats at the bottom of the order, Red grew frustrated last night - all the more so because watching the game meant several hours of ESPN announcers:
... [A] loss after you've had to endure four hours of Joe Morgan and Jon Miller is like a form of torture. Why can't ESPN offer alternate audio tracks, kinda like a DVD, enabling viewers to choose from either the actual commentating or something a little less aurally offensive, like squealing breaks, an iron glove on a chalkboard, or Stephen Hawking reading all the Frank Booth dialogue from Blue Velvet?
By adamg - 7/3/08 - 8:14 am
After reading Kevin Cullen's thoughts on Manny Ramirez today, it would be easy to ask why a metro columnist is writing about this rather than, oh, asking how a 7-year-old came to be shot while playing kickball or, oh, how a woman died when her car was raked by gunfire or, oh, whether police overreacted in responding to that woman with the cleaning supplies.
Easy, but incomplete. Because one also has to ask whether Cullen even reads his own paper, since the CHB wrote the same basic column on Tuesday and Bob Ryan expressed the same basic thoughts on Wednesday. Maybe Cullen was at a retreat, missed those two columns, but saw Yvonne Abraham's summation of all the questions in the Woodman case and concluded the paper had already had enough serious local opinion this week.
By adamg - 7/1/08 - 1:59 pm
Jimmy: If McCormick is fine with it, we should also be fine with it.
Red wonders if we're really seeing a sudden personality change or some management propaganda to set us all up for them not re-signing Manny when his contract's up.
By adamg - 5/31/08 - 9:35 pm
If Manny had to be Manny in an away game, what better place than Fenway South?
Manny! Manny! Manny!
Beth loved it:
... My favorite moment of the aftermath was when Papi enveloped both Manny and Julio Lugo in his arms and bounced them both up and down there in front of the dugout. That was just cute on principle, but even more endearing was how completely relaxed and exuberant Manny looked, with his cheek pressed against Papi's shoulder, leaping into the air. ...
By adamg - 5/16/08 - 10:53 am
No, you won't read it in any of the papers. Joy of Sox has the interview with the Sox fan from, of all places, Oklahoma - at his first ever major-league game (another interview with him).
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