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Goodbye, Team Manny
August 1, 2008 4:50 pm
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.
