It’s been a yearly ritual in Boston since 2003 to devote a day’s worth of ink to Anti-Manny propaganda. Unlike Patriots Day in Massachusetts — an annual holiday held each April — nobody can quite precisely pinpoint this recent phase.

The Red Sox first put Manny on waivers in 2003, sparking an outrageously opinionated war between Manny Fans and not-Manny Fans.

That whole 2004 World Series championship thing took some attention away from the saga, but ever since, Manny has demanded, then undemanded, then redemanded, the reundemanded a trade each off-season.

Over the course of such time period, talk radio devoted months of airtime, newspapers invested mini MannyGate printing presses, and NESN came thisclose to launching NESN2: The Manny Channel.

Now, it’s on, once again: Today was “Fuck Manny Day” in Boston.

Dan Shaughnessy called him out like never before. Steve Buckley did, too.

Writes Shaughnessy:

Manny has punched his ticket out of town. It’s over. O-VA. Adios, amigo. Good night, Irene. Turn out the lights. Last night’s 1-0 loss to the Yankees (think they could have used Manny?) was the proverbial last worthless evening.

Writes Buckley:

But now it’s time for the Red Sox to be big boys about all this and either continue with the enabling . . . or, and let’s say it again, toss Manny out.

Literally. Throw him out. No, wait, that would be violent. And we don’t want to be advocating violence here. That’s Manny’s job – you know, tossing 64-year-old men to the ground and all that.