Yesterday in a day-of-deadline trade, the Red Sox sent Manny Ramirez to the Dodgers.

I can’t bring myself to feel sad about it. I really can’t. For a while now, Manny’s been a whiny little kid whose antics and bitching have seriously messed up team dynamics. He stopped playing for the Red Sox as a team and became ‘Team Manny.’ So it just isn’t that hard to see him go. Actually, it isn’t hard to see him go at all.

I mean, he’s going to play for Joe Torre. That, in of itself, makes me giggle.

And feel bad for Joe Torre.

One of my best friends is a Yankees fan and we ended up chatting about trades yesterday while waiting on the news for Manny. Levesque is in the Coast Guard and stationed somewhere in the Middleoffuckingnowhere, Maine and hadn’t been up-to-date on the latest about her team. Meaning, she hadn’t heard that Posada (a Yankees player I respect) had season-ending surgery (seriously, how much does that suck?). She also wasn’t sure about the Yankees dealing away Kyle Farnsworth for Ivan Rodriguez, but Rodriguez is a hell of a player, so I think the Yankees made out on that deal.

Anyway, we ended up discussing players on each other’s favorite teams that we respect (I respect Jeter, he’s a good ballplayer and a great leader) and Levesque respects Varitek (for the same reasons), and we both think A-Rod is bush-league.

Levesque summed it up when she said that A-Rod and Manny should be on the same team, and not playing for the Yankees or the Red Sox or Joe Torre (who is a great manager).

Unfortunately, Joe has Manny now. But at least Manny is with D-Lowe and Nomar again.

See ya, Manny. And know that with all the shit you talked on your way out, you’ll be booed in Boston if you’re there for interleague play. I’ll be booing with them, because a player doesn’t shit on his team, and you did.

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I’m afraid to miss watching the games. At the same time, I’m afraid to watch the games. Not only that, but if I miss a game, I’m afraid to check redsox.com the next morning.

Why?

Because the Yankees are only 2.5 games back in the AL East, when at one point during the season, the Sox were as many as 13.5 games ahead. We shouldn’t even have to worry about the 7-game lead over the Tigers in the wild card race, because by all rights and purposes, we should have the AL East pennant clinched.

Do we? No. Why? Because it’s Boston, because it’s the Red Sox. No lead is too great to overcome, and no lead is too great to lose. We knew it would happen. We just hoped it wouldn’t. The Sox have an awesome ability to inspire a flicker of hope even in the most pessimistic fan.

Even this fan, one who checks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

Also, why was Eric Gagne such a great trade? Seriously. Why?

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It was teh awesome. It was a perfect day for baseball, partly sunny, a bit breezy, barely 80 degrees. The seats were fantastic—just into the shade, the breeze blowing right on us, a fantastic view of everything.

And to our luck, we were in Boston and not Mudville, and the Red Sox scored six runs in the bottom of the first inning. One of the scorekeepers got bored and peeked out—

And our ADD poster boy Manny pulled another I gotta wee while no one’s looking trick.

But I went camera-snap-happy and have a gallery of 190 freaking photos..

What an awesome day, though. I love baseball.

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