J Rose
Boston based commentary with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer
What’s up, JSB nation? I’m finally back from my family vacation to Cincy, and it looks like I missed some major sports news since I last posted.
While I was in the Queen City, riding The Beast at King’s Island and attending various family functions, I […]

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Rumored deal that would send enigmatic Manny Ramirez to South Florida may not be in the team’s best interests
SCOTT JACOBS
If you follow baseball, you’ve heard the rumor. The Marlins, Red Sox, and Pirates are talking a blockbuster three team swap that would net Florida Manny Ramirez.
I’m going to say something that might surprise […]

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COLIN LINNEWEBER
Big City Bias Without The Boston Bullshit
The Boston Red Sox are contemplating trading their exasperating superstar, Manny Ramirez, before Thursday’s deadline, according to published reports.
Ramirez, 36, who is in the last season of the eight-year, $168 million contract he signed with Boston in December of 2000, urged Red Sox management Sunday night to […]

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Manny Ramirez has been asking for trades on and off every year since coming to the Red Sox, but now it’s for real. The Red Sox really want to trade him, but they probably won’t find a buyer, according to my sources and other sources.
The Sox couldn’t trade him in his prime, so they […]

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Mitchell Blatt
Manny Regained Motivation After Reading Garko’s Editted Game 5 QuoteAfter the Indians lost Game Five and had to go back to Boston, Indians first basemen Ryan Garko made a startling revalation, “The champagne tastes just as good on the road as it does at home.” That alone doesn’t suffice for bulletin board material, […]

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Score after Manny’s homer: Red Sox: 3, Indians: 7

Mitchell Blatt
Sox Down 3-1, but “Who Cares?”Everyone knows Manny Ramirez is a classless showboater, but did he really need to celebrate his homerun that put the Red Sox within 4 like this? (Why yes, he did, or else what would I have to write about?) […]

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