Which is equally f’d.

I don’t even remember that dude Manny Rodriguez, or whatever was his name. :)

we got way more for Manny. The likelihood of those two draft picks turning into two major league-quality players, let alone one on par with Jason Bay, is extremely low. Moss was never going to get playing time, and Hansen could take years to put it together, so it’s not like we traded top prospects.

Because Gordon Edes reports that some anonymous source in the Red Sox says that Scott Boras says that Manny would have behaved himself, and because of that, this source in the Red Sox office claims that this is a “tacit admission” that Manny had been dogging it.

Let’s look at the stats. In Manny’s last month on the Sox, his OBP and slugging both went up.

I saw the strikeout against Rivera. I saw three pitches on the black.

Everybody in the Sox organization whose commented on that strikeout has said that there’s no way Manny was intentionally tanking that AB. Hitting Mariano Rivera when he’s on is not easy. And Manny is not the kind of hitter who flails away at pitches that he cannot hit, just to prove that he’s doing something.

It’s not that baseball is gutless. It’s that it’s completely inane to suggest that an investigation should have anytime somebody strikes out looking. Especially against the hottest reliever in the league.

And no, I do not “read” the comment by Boras as a “tacit admission” that Manny had been tanking at all. I think if that’s your presupposition, that it will be your conclusion. But it seems an equally valid interpretation to say that the comment by Boras was to mean that Manny would not have been publicly asking for a trade any more, or complaining about the Boston ownership at all.

Going from “Manny won’t cause any more trouble” to “Manny admits he was tanking” – well that’s a bit of a stretch.

I’m waiting to see how Boras markets Tek—4 years/$60 million?

yeah, I said it… because there are always those who bring the group down bc they cant hack it or they just plain old $uck so I avoid group projects at all costs but I do understand the importance of teamwork. What I understand more is doing the job you are paid to do – maybe its my NE work ethic. I think Manny (usually) did the job he was paid to do.

I dont think the fans are to blame because no one in management made a decision based on what the fans wanted because it is impossible to ask every fan. I rooted for Manny & laughed at some of his ways but nothing was within my control. For every fan like me who laughed at MBM there was a fan like you (NG) who didnt think he was funny at all- so this isnt on the fans.

Manny hit better in July than he did in May and June.

Is that important?

If anything, he was told a mistruth.