Manny feels ignored? OH NO!

by Randy Booth on Dec 11, 2008 8:47 PM EST in News Comment 23 comments

Breaking news, everyone! Manny Ramirez is feeling ignored on the free agent market and is threatening retirement! Let's all cry him a river and build a bridge so he can get the hell over it:

Manny Ramirez is growing extremely upset about the lack of suitors for his services, so much so that he has told friends he would contemplate retirement if a suitable offer doesn't arrive soon, a person close to the situation told Newsday.

Now, the truth is that Ramirez is highly unlikely to retire. But his dissatisfaction speaks to the lack of buzz that his free agency has generated, despite (or maybe because of?) his outstanding two-month stay with the Dodgers, which followed a highly contentious split with the Red Sox.

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Ramirez told a friend that he spends most of his time working out, watching cartoons and playing video games. He'd much rather be speaking to his agent Scott Boras about high-stakes negotiations.

Geez, if that's what it takes to be a pro baseball player, I'm signing up next year!

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I laughed out loud (literally) when I read this.

Just when I thought this guy couldn’t get any more ridiculous. I love watching the guy hit, but his antics are even better. At least the Sox won’t be dealing with it. I hope he ends up taking two years from the Dodgers, and shows the entire baseball world that it’s not OK to give us a BS performance in order to get traded.
Shame on Manny

by Schulz on Dec 11, 2008 9:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

“… a person close to the situation told Newsday”
…
“Ramirez told a friend…”

With friends like these…

This piece should come with heaping goblets of salt.

"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.

by 0157H7 on Dec 11, 2008 10:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

It’s more sad than anything.

by matzushocka45 on Dec 11, 2008 10:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Psst, Manny

Fire Boras.

Manny ain't the only bad man.

by tommy.otm on Dec 11, 2008 10:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Too late

I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.

by Drugs Delaney on Dec 12, 2008 9:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Mannys do

He’s do for a good injury some thing dumb to,like mo walking down stairs.Manny walking in to traffic. He is a10 year old and i feel bad for what ever manager gets him because i wouldnt want to change his man diaper.

by Red Sox #1 Fan on Dec 11, 2008 10:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'd like to think it's nice to see defense, at last, getting some love in the FA

But then I remember all the talks about Ibanez and Abreu…

Mother---- him and John Wayne!

by MerryGoByeBye on Dec 11, 2008 11:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Here's a question

Can Manny catch?

"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.

by 0157H7 on Dec 12, 2008 12:10 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

Fire Boras...

I think this has some merit actually. I reckon that the Boras rep has become so bad it weighs like an albatross around his clients’ necks. I know Theo has managed to deal with him in the past, but I reckon having him as your agent just speaks volumes about what type of person your are.
Personally I would never have someone like him represent my interests for any matter whatsoever.

by sydneysox on Dec 12, 2008 12:16 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Not really

Having Boras is supposedly worth a little less than a million per year. He’s good at his job. We hate him because he costs teams more money, but he makes money for players.

by BTLove on Dec 12, 2008 2:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm responding to the same comment twice.

Boras is great at his job. We hate him because doing his job directly works against our interest. We want good players at low prices. He wants us to sign any player at a high price. Why hold this against him? Why would any player sign for less than he is worth? Why should the owners pocket that money? I would rather Manny, or Tek, or Drew, or any other Boras client the Sox sign, pocket the money. All this anti-Boras sentiment is stupid. The man gets his clients what they want. Hate his clients for wanting more money. Don’t continuously hate the agent for beibg the best at getting his clients more money.

by BTLove on Dec 12, 2008 2:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No, I hate Boras not because he’s good at his job, but because how he does it, through lying, deceit, and a complete lack of ethics. Just like I don’t hate the big CEO’s in America, just the ones that fudge numbers, lie to their employees/stock-holders, and skim off the top. I had a negotiations class in College, and they straight out said “This is not an ethics class, lying and manipulating is a method of negotiations that some use”, but they did go on to say “but be careful if you use this method, because it is usually successful at first, but after a couple lies are brought to light people begin to not wanting to deal with you”….maybe this is finally starting to happen with Boras

by Realistic on Dec 12, 2008 10:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I blame manny less for this because it seems to be just another he said she said game. Though if it did happen to be true that manny was going to retire because not enough people are paying attention to him so be it. He would endanger is hall of fame status because hes too tempermental and difficult to work with….so be it.

by spinz on Dec 12, 2008 12:38 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

His HOF status is pretty much secure at this point.

Manny ain't the only bad man.

by tommy.otm on Dec 12, 2008 12:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Definitely.

OverTheMonster.com

by Randy Booth on Dec 12, 2008 12:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I love Manny no matter what.

I have accepted him. He is a savant, one of the best hitters of all time. And he won me 2 World Series. Unless he pulls an OJ, he’s good.

by BTLove on Dec 12, 2008 2:34 AM EST reply actions 2 recs

I'm with BT on this.

Rec’d.

He needed to leave, and he left. I loved him when he was here, pretty much all the time, and now I’m not worried about the dramatics. Those are done, from our standpoint, and now all I think about w/r/t Manny is how he was the best RHH (maybe Foxx?) in Sox history.

"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"

by Allen Chace on Dec 12, 2008 5:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Best right-handed hitter

"no1 has time to read your long comments, are you writing a book?"

by britsoxfan on Dec 12, 2008 6:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't that a bit more of a bitch slap?

I’ll always remember Hatchet Face as a great bowler and two-strike bunter.

I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.

by Drugs Delaney on Dec 12, 2008 9:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh and it was Rudy Seanez who

would have been an ultimate fighter if his baseball career hadn’t got in the way. (I think.)

"no1 has time to read your long comments, are you writing a book?"

by britsoxfan on Dec 12, 2008 9:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Also rec'd

Agree 100%.

I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.

by Drugs Delaney on Dec 12, 2008 9:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’d be willing to bet Manny wishes all the crap that happened last year would not have happened. It’s a shame.

by matzushocka45 on Dec 12, 2008 10:10 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Okay, fine.

$5mil, 1year contract. Take it or leave it. Also, a small clause involving your behavior. You screw with us, you owe us $25mil, okay Manny?

Clutch: A measurement of how much better or worse a player does in high leverage situations than he would have done in a context neutral environment. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/glossary/

by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Dec 12, 2008 4:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs