As the injury reports would say, Highly doubtful
Props to Kevin for bringing up the joke this afternoon while freshmen women cooked us dinner. We’ll be road trippin’ to LA next weekend, and live blogging the whole six-hour drive, stops at casinos, Dbacks game Thursday, Dodgers game Friday, and UCLA-Zona game Saturday. (It would only be three hours if I drove the entire way.)
Oh now we get it. Manny + Hollywood. But maybe West Hollywood actually does have a hardon?
Bust open the tissue box, here are some of my favorite Manny moments:
*que that sad Titanic-esque music*
Manny Ramirez, meet a town that has no problem with showing up late to games.
Welcome (officially) to La la land — a place that many Sox fans thought Manny spent most of his time mentally.
Ramirez will head west to a completely opposite city from Boston in a three-team deal that sends Jason Bay to the Sox from Pittsburgh.
The Sox will also pay $7 million — which doesn’t look half as bad as the Packers offering Favre $20 just to stay home — and include two bullpen duds, Craig Hansen and Brandon Moss.
So enjoy the West Coast, Manny. Crack open an avocado with Joe Torre. Grab an In-N-Out burger off the freeway. Grab a surf board and smoke a bowl. Get some fake boobs.
It’s a city that will embrace Manny Being Manny as just another day in Hollywood.
(No word on whether Pedro will join the LA-based 2003 Red Sox alumni association.)
And you thought the whole Clippers-Sixers-Warriors love triangle in the NBA was weird . . .
With SI.com’s new report that the Dodgers are expressing interest in acquiring Manny Ramirez before the dreaded 4 p.m. trade deadline (T-minus 30 minutes away), could a deal propel L.A. to “Closest Team Ever to Replicate The 2003 Red Sox” status?
We’ll merge together 2006-2008 in Dodgerland for the sake of this argument, and present the following evidence:
Manager: Grady Little (check)
Shortstop: Nomar Garciaparra (check)
Third baseman: Bill Mueller (check)
Pitcher: Derek Lowe (check)
Left fielder: Manny Ramirez (???)
But wait! Or are the 2008 Red Sox trying to recapture the 2006 Dodgers?
