Sports: July 2008 Archives

Manny Ramirez has been traded to the LA Dodgers, where he can spend his evenings commiserating with the rest of the 2004 Red Sox over the front office shenanigans that brought them to the west coast. Update: Unconfirmed blog reports Reliable mainstream media reports say that Manny went to the Dodgers, Matt Kemp 3B Adam LaRoche went to the Pirates, and Jason Bay went to Boston. Wikipedia already has Bay listed as a Red Sox. Those nerds are fast. Update: RHP Craig Hansen and RF Brandon Moss went to......

"The Red Sox don't deserve a player like me," Manny Ramirez said yesterday. We're not sure; at this point, it seems like a match made in heaven. Last night was either Manny's last game in a Sox uniform, or it wasn't, and either way it was pretty pathetic. Trailing 3-2 after five, the sixth hit the fan once again, and when the dust settled the Angels had a 9-2 win, a sweep, and some legitimate confidence that they could go all the way this year. Josh Beckett got hammered for the loss,......