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*

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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.)

Gathering the day’s news while wondering if a Bill Belichick sex tape exists (Or maybe it’s just a walk through) . . .

• Step 1: Write about ESPN goddess Erin Andrews. Step 2: Be a jackass. Step 3: ???? Step 4: Success! (Awful Announcing)
• Breaking: Manny can spell (see picture, right)
• Breaking: USC Football is now gayer. Someone please tag Pete Carroll in this picture on Facebook. (With Leather)
• Snoop D-O-double-G and Les Miles are BFFLs. (SPORTSbyBROOKS)
• Can I haz cheezecake!?!? (Sox Monster)

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.

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