Manny Wants Out of LA?
PHOENIX — Manny Ramirez will be back in Los Angeles Monday to renew his love affair with the city, but before his career ends he hopes to be reunited with his first love: the Cleveland Indians. “I would like to play for Cleveland one more time, to go back where I started,” said Ramirez, with the Dodgers playing their home opener Monday against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium. “I have so many good memories there, why not? “I think to go back where you started is everyone’s dream.” Ramirez, 37, who spent the first 10 years of his career in the Indians organization, shared his sentiments this spring with Chicago White Sox DH Jim Thome…”Me and Thome back in Cleveland?” Ramirez said. “That would be sweet. “I love L.A. I really do. But the way the city responded to me, it reminded me a lot of how it was in Cleveland.”
And so it begins. No doubt some Dodger fans and members of the organization are scratching their heads and thinking this doesn’t make any sense and wondering why Manny would take $45 million of Frank McCourt’s money and two weeks later be talking about how he’d be happier somewhere else. Well welcome to our world. We went through a period like this, too. We called it “the 2000s.” Next on Manny’s agenda is to say he’s not happy in LA. Then he’ll deny he ever said it. Followed by a pulled hammy that lasts three days during a crucial weekend series. Followed by him coming back on the field, embracing LA fans and saying this is the only place he ever wants to play. Next will be an interview with ESPN Desportes where he says he hates the baseball-obsessed fishbowl that is Los Angeles and and how underpaid he is and that he wants to be traded to Cleveland. The question isn’t why Manny says this shit, the question is why anyone associated with the Dodgers would be surprised he says it.
Jerry Thornton | Random Thoughts | 04/14/09, 4:05 pm |
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You guys are really behind on the news this week. This is at least a day old as was the news about Fidrych.
Anyways, so it begins LA, the honeymoon is over before it even began…
he said hed like to finish his career where it started big deal, he can opt out after this year, this is why the media sucks, he didnt say he wants to leave LA now, jackass
First of all, old news.
Second of all, quit bitching about Manny. He is a great player and contributed to the world series championship in Boston.
It is common for players to want to return to their original teams when they are at the end of their careers. Case in point, Ken Griffey Jr. Just cause he mentioned he would someday like to go back to the Cleve, it doesn’t mean now. Quit trying to make news about something that isn’t.
Boy the Sox really miss Manny.
What the fuck is up with Beckett getting suspended 6 games?? He could probably use the time off to clear his head after his season start but christ ….and Spier and Hunter only get fined for their pointless shananigans … thank god for bruins playoffs to take my mind off the sox
Tuffnutz anchor a cinder block to your leg and jump into the ocean, let me know if you need a lift I own a boat
Heated the door you floated over here on from Puerto Rico does not count as a boat
Rman64
Beckett will appeal and win. Because he didn’t do anything. If he hit then he should get 6 games, but since he didn’t no suspension at all.
tuffnutz, are you learning impaired? read the blog again. since you clearly lack issue-spotting skills, allow me to explain the “theme” of the blog. manny’s comment about wanting to finish his career in cleveland is a mere warning sign (omen, foreshadowing, early symptom) of what is to come between manny and LA. the blog does not say that his comment = manny leaving right away.
the deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance strikes again.
nice one Alabama, I will give props when it is due, finally something semi-clever came outta your toothless mouth. Hurry back to work, Ill have my groceries bagged paper plz
Alabama, get your illegal immigrants correct. You float from Cuba not Puerto Rico, you retard.
ah jesus christ I thought the dumb hick had finally come up with one, I was wrong, Quann nailed his coffin shut
did ManRam see what Griffey got to go back to Seatown? he’s such a dumbass.
heated76
thats alil much dont you think, teeling me to commit suicide over a blog comment, get your priorities straight and try to be funny at least like the leprechaun, jackass
i don’t think Manny will even take BP for $2million
READ THE LA TIMES TODAY. THE MANNY QUOTE WAS A JOKE.
I thought maybe it was a bit much at 1st, but now that you have admitted that you think Alabama Leprachaun is funny I don’t think it was enough. Jumping infrnt of an 18 wheeler is an option as well
Heated76, are you still practicing law?
Why cant we get hitters like this?
» Heated76 said: { Apr 14, 2009 – 04:04:10 }
well jackass, considering you also gave him credit i assume you will have directions to the reststop where we can find an 18 wheeler to hop infron of
Quann cubans use rafts and pool toys, pureto ricans still use doors
Seriously, I hope Jack McCormick feels safe strolling around the 75 win Sox clubhouse at the end of the year.
Theese guys cant fucking hit.
you forgot the part where he carries the team to it’s first World Series in 86 years
what is manny thinking now?? does he know to just keep his mouth shut. http://www.CTSportsPicks.com
Crap like this is the reason that 99% of these guys just say “I’m just going to take it one game at a time” and all the other tired cliches. So he wants to finish his career in Cleveland where he started it. That’s great, he probably should. He has a 1 year deal with LA and might play another 3 or 4 years. You guys are pulling an ESPN and making a story out of nothing to fill up space.
remember Beckett monthly? I had like 100 cards that were “worth” over $25 each. But if you tried to sell them you might be able to move the entire lot of them for $.36.
oh and i love having to back out of every coment thread, if i want to keep reading the site.
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