Bostonherald.com - The Manny Ramirez [ stats] saga took another turn today when the Red Sox [ team stats] slugger said he will not object if the team feels it needs to trade him. “If the Red Sox think they can find a trade that is going to make the team better, and both sides are going to be happy, I’m going to agree,” Ramirez said after stepping outside of the clubhouse just before it was closed to the media. “But if they can’t find a trade ... It’s something simple, it’s no big deal. At the end of the season all they have to do is call my agent and say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to pick up Manny’s option for ’09, he’s going to become a free agent.’ That’s it. I’ll go my way and you guys go your way. It’s something simple. “I don’t want to talk to them about contract right now, so what?” Ramirez added. “Enough is enough. I’m tired of them, they’re tired of me. After 2008, just send me a letter. You don’t even have to call my agent or whatever. ‘Thank you for everything, you’re going to become a free agent in ’09.’ ” “They’re not stupid. Boston is not stupid. They’re not going to do it, they can say whatever they want. But when it comes to making a deal they’re not going to pull the trigger because they know what they’ve got here. “I’m happy, but enough is enough.” Speaking to ESPNdeportes.com earlier yesterday, Ramirez said he does not care where he is traded.“I don’t have any preferences,” Ramirez told the Web site. “I could choose a team that offers me the best conditions or one in the chase for the postseason. I don’t care where I play, I can even play in Iraq if need be. My job is to play baseball. “I don’t want to be a problem and a distraction to the Red Sox in such a critical moment of the season. I want to help the team, even if that means I have to go.” As for his knee injury, Ramirez said he thinks he has tendinitis and denied he could be faking injuries.“I’m a ballplayer with more than 500 home runs and almost 2,000 RBIs. I’m a professional. I don’t know how anybody can say I could be making it all up,” he said. Ramirez said he is convinced that all the fuss surrounding his injury and his contractual situation is part of a Red Sox campaign to portray him as the bad guy.

I honestly can’t believe I’m writing about this shit again, but at the same time I’d be shocked if I wasn’t.   I don’t even know what to compare it to.  I guess it’s like a mouse that gets shocked when he tries to grab a piece of cheese and just keeps doing it over and over and over again.    EVERY fucking year it’s the same thing.   EVERY FUCKING YEAR!    And every time we get one of these Manny incidents the media goes crazy and everybody bitches and moans about how the Sox need to get rid of him.   And every year it blows over, Manny goes berserk and everybody acts like it never happened.  And then we start the whole song and dance all over again.   So what’s different about this time than any other time besides nothing?  Why is it the lead story on Boston.com, Bostonherald.com, ESPN, WEEI and every other media outlet?  I don’t get it.    It’s the same exact thing that happens every year.  No better, no worse.  

Listen is Manny a jerk?  Yes.  Is he a baby?  Definitely.  Does he play the game the right way?  Absolutely not.  Will I care if he drops dead once he leaves Boston?  Not really.  But all I care about is winning.  And anybody who says Manny doesn’t help us win is a flat out moron.  Without him in the lineup we wouldn’t have two World Series titles and we wouldn’t be a favorite to win another one this year.  So unless Theo can find a guy to replace Manny’s production which is virtually impossible let’s do what we always do with Manny.   Just chalk it up to Manny being Manny and move on.   It’s that fucking simple.   Unless of course you'd rather lose with 9 Trot Nixon type guys than win with 9 Manny type guys.