Just when you think you've seen it all - and it's hard not to believe you have after nearly eight full years of Manny Ramirez lunacy - comes this report from the Boston Globe's Gordon Edes, citing an unnamed source "with direct knowledge of the negotiations" that took place between Manny's representatives and the Boston Red Sox.
According to Edes, who covers the Red Sox daily, "within an hour after [the] Red Sox informed Manny Ramirez he had been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers...Ramirez' agent, Scott Boras, called the Sox back." Incredibly, the message Boras carried was that Manny was just kidding about the whole getting out of Boston thing; just kidding when he said that the Red Sox didn't deserve a player like him; just kidding when he said he was sick of them and they were sick of him.
According to Edes, Boras offered the following proposal - if Boston agreed to drop the option years on his contract, Manny would be a good boy and not cause any more trouble the rest of the season!
By that time,of course, the deal with the Dodgers was done, making the affair probably the last "Manny Moment" ever in Boston. Unless of course, by some massive cosmic joke the Red Sox were to meet the Dodgers in the World Series, which, undoubtedly, every single management type at the Fox network, the home of this year's Fall Classic, would sell their souls to see.
But for now the point is moot. The Manny Ramirez Traveling Circus has taken its show to the West Coast, and everyone involved is beginning the long process of moving on. For Manny, though, who must be wondering why this time was so different after all the other episodes of foolishness the Red Sox management endured for so long without ever seeming to hold him accountable, it's a new day in Hollywood, and a new town to woo with the promise of all his monster talent.
Here's hoping he doesn't quit on his new team like he quit on his old one.
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