All-American baseball, All-American tunes and All-American booze. Sounds like a sweet combo for a All-American Idol winner, doesn’t it?

Thanks to the in-depth research/stalking ability of our boy Dan at Red Sox Monster, we now know that this crazy chick is the one and only Kelly Clarkson — who proclaims “We’re at a Red Sox game!!! Omg!!! — with a couple of her backup singers (singing more like Sanjaya.)

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Bust open the tissue box, here are some of my favorite Manny moments:

*que that sad Titanic-esque music*

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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?

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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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This is how my buddy Andy — and probably the rest of the country — views Sox fans. Jägerbombs don’t fly in New England. Kuckleballs do.

Tally another one in the “Douchebag Sox Fans That Took The Rivalry Way Too Far” category.

Walking back from Fourth of July fireworks in Falmouth, Mass., this 20-year-old punk spotted a car in traffic with New York license plates.

Upon further antagonizing the vehicle and bothering its occupants, the tool found out they were Yankees fans, then proceeded to attack the driver with a baseball bat, according to the Boston Herald.

Pathetic. A family, like yours and mine, just minding their own business in heavy traffic, and suddenly a group of smartass, obnoxious Sox fans torment the car. The worst part of the story is that the driver, who tried to avoid confrontation at all costs, “asked the youths to stop because children were present.”

Great example, and great way to represent Red Sox Nation, Robert D. Correia. You’ve earned this week’s TSC TOOL… OF… THE WEEK!