Surviving Grady says that Manny lobbied to stay in Boston AFTER learning of the trade to Los Angeles... he also grounded into a DP while Jason Bay was scoring the winning run for the Sox...The Boston Globe has more on that shocking detail...
Within an hour after Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein informed Manny Ramírez he had been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday, Ramírez's agent, Scott Boras, called the Sox back, according to a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations. If the Sox dropped the option years on his contract - which they had agreed to do if they traded him - Boras said Ramírez would not be a problem the rest of the season.
Red Sox Monster has video of Manny making more Brett Favre jokes... in Doger blue this time.
Sox & Dawgs has shots of #99 Manny Ramirez...
Fenway West has reactions from Paps, Ortiz and other regarding the Manny trade.
And Yahoo! Sports says a weight was been lifted with Manny's departure:
“There are 25 guys down there right now that feel like a team,” general manager Theo Epstein. “It hasn’t felt like that for a while and you have to feel like that in professional sports to perform at your best.”
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