Manny Being Shady, Wants To Reunite With Cleveland Indians

Yesterday the USA Today reported that Man-Ram stated that he would like to end his career in Cleveland. Day 1 in LA and Manny just alienated the only fans he has at the moment.

“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 agree, why not? But don’t talk about it during this season. You just pretended to want to get a long term deal done in Los Angeles and now the day of the home opener Manny is setting up for his next contract.

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Dodgers Look Dumb Again

Earlier this morning the LA Times was reporting that the Dodgers and Manny had closed on a deal. Now they are saying that was misrepored as they say, “a high-ranking Dodgers source says there is still work to do.”

What is apparent is that Manny is flying to LA as we speak. However Boras as has stated this morning, “I assure you, we have no deal”.

All signs point that we will have a deal later today.

The one thing that we know for sure; the Dodgers look like a second rate organization. They have been bidding against themselves for months as well as bending over backwards to please Man-Ram.

The reality is that the entire reason why no one (including the Dodgers) wants to give Manny a long term deal is not because they are afraid he can’t produce. Rather it is because they are terrified that he will no longer WANT to produce.

As we saw last year he can turn it on and off at the drop of a pin fly ball.

Manny Ramirez is flying to L.A. to meet with Frank McCourt [LA Times]

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Frank McCourt and the Dodger’s: offer deal to Manny
McCourt and the Dodgers made an offer to free-agent Manny Ramirez on Wednesday. The offer is a similar two year deal worth $45 million but this offer gives Manny the option to become a free agent after the first season. This is a big time soft move by McCourt. Not only that but it doesn’t even make sense. Manny doesn’t want the option to go somewhere else, he could give a crap where he plays or seemingly even if he plays at all. He just wants a long term deal with guaranteed money.

Vick: Coming home in May
Thursday the Associated Press reported that Michael Vick will be allowed to serve the last two months of his sentence under home confinement. The reason? Because there is no room at a halfway house for him. Vick will still be on electronic monitoring and can only be allowed to leave home when approved by his probation officer. He wil be eligible for release in July.
Trend: High School ball stars ‘spending a year abroad’
Early this week Renardo Sidney, the 6-foot-9 senior from Fairfax, CA committed to USC. This comes after his first choice UCLA couldn’t decide if they could indeed take Sidney. According to Jeff Goodman, there’s a good chance that he’ll end up overseas, following Brandon Jennings’ brilliant path to the NBA. We will see how it works out for Jennings. If he is an NBA success story the game of college basketball will suffer a great loss of star power.
The Giants: short change Lincecum
It could be the best bang for the buck for any pitcher. No for any MLB player. No for any player in all of North American sports. Yesterday, the Giants agreed with right-hander Tim Lincecum on a one-year, $650,000 contract. If Lincecum becomes eligible for salary arbitration after this season, he will be all but guaranteed a ten-fold raise. Have fun while it lasts San Fran, the rental is up come September.

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Mets interested in Manny

After turning down a one-year, $25 million deal from the Dodgers for his client, agent Scott Boras hinted that his client is still generating interest from other teams, including the Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets.

It is somewhat true that the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals are among the teams known to be at least closely looking into the option of Ramirez in left field. However no teams seems willing to pay him more than $20 million a season. And this creates a problem due to the fact that Manny doesn’t seem willing to play for this price.

Still, some people do believe that the Mets could potentially still offer a multi-year deal for Manny.

At first, at this point, I think it is insane for a team to subject themselves to the antics of Manny. But after you scratch the surface maybe he would fit in in New Shea.

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The Bottom Line: last night in sports – November 12th edition

Tim Lincecum become the youngest lightest player to win the CY Young in decades yesterday. The Giants official website lists Lincecum as 5’11, 170 lbs. He is also only 24 years old. With all of the contract talk as of late; think about what this kid could potentially get in free agency in the future. The bottom line: Sabathia’s left arm weights 175

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The Dodgers made an offer to Manny Ramirez that they knew he could refuse. This is becoming a show for the Dodger fans. Management just wants the fans to believe they are attempting to sign this guy. The biggest joke is that they added a club option year. I know General Manager Ned Collettiand owner Frank McCour do not honestly believe that this thing has a shot at getting signed. Remember 4 months ago; the whole reason Manny played his way out of Boston was the club option in his contract. The bottom line: a barrel of oil has dropped to below $60 and a barrel of Manny is heading in the same direction

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Kobe and his Lakers remain undefeated. Los Angeles moves to 6-0 with a victory in Dallas last night. This now gives us two undefeated teams in the NBA. The aforementioned Lakers and… those pesky Atlanta Hawks. The bottom line: clearly the Hawks are the second best team in the Eastern conference. Didn’t they prove it last Spring?

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