Bye Bye Manny!

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by Strike_King

Mike..why do think Minaya didn't do anything this week?Tight race in the NL East..With the money they've spent on Beltran,Reyes and Santana etc what's some more $$$?

Just a guess--he didn't want to give up anyone to get Manny, he thinks they can win the East with what they have, and he will make a run at him as a free agent.

[FishermanTim]

Manny had OK'd the trade option, but he was thinking that the D-Rays were the team in the trade. Oh well, I guess you better be careful what you wish for.
I can only hope he'll get back to a "team' mentality, but a leopard can't change his spots.

As for the Garciaparra comments, Manny had OK'd the Sox trade but may have been bluffing, thinking that they couldn't work out a trade.
I guess he's eating crow now.

As I've heard and stated numerous times in my lifetime: "No one is indespensible!"

[Mike P]

I don't get the Pedro and Vaughn comparisons. They weren't unloaded as headaches. The were free agents whose offers from the Mets the Sox (wisely in both cases) refused to match. The Sox would probably have kept both--at what they thought was the right price.

Look--this is a business. It always has been a business. Anyone who has this romantic ideal that teams used to be run as civic ventures for the fans need only look to the history of the team that traded for Manny yesterday--how its scumbag onwer, miffed that he couldn't blackmail a new stadium at taxpayer expense out of NY City, took the most beloved franchise in professional sports away from the most loyal fans in sports and moved it a continent away--bringing his stooge Horace Stoneham and the Giants with him.

Owners held the upper hand for close to a century and could treat the players like dirt due to the reserve clause--"you'll play for us at our price, or you won't play at all". Now the players have the upper hand, and can force owners to trade them for below market value. But don't kid yourself--it always was just a business.

[Rockfish9]

He once was a great player, he almost 37, his bat speed isnt what it was, is he finished, not hardly but I dont think he strikes the fear into pitchers he once did, especialy when he takes 3 consecutive strikes and his bat never leaves his shoulder...are the sox a better team with out him... probably not, but at least the players that take the field for each game will give it thier all, so if they loose, so be it,at least the game will be played as it was meant to be.... Bye bye Manny.. thank you for the memories, both good and bad.. time to move on...

[Tagger]

Manny's a great bat .. I lost respect for him when he threw the old guy in the office down for not giving up more tickets .