MANNY RAMIREZ: BEST PLAYER

manny august 2008 to october 2008: .396/.489/.743 (221 OPS+)

barry bonds april 2001 to october 2004: .349/.559/.809 (256 OPS+)

this has been your barry bonds reminder of the day

xp this isn't the best thing to look at because park factors and such but
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/onbase_plus_slugging_career.shtml

manny is 9th all time by unadjusted OPS, mcgwire is 10th.

sosa is 106th

barry bonds april 2001 to october 2004: .349/.559/.809 (256 OPS+)

^^ these are numbers from the mind of a madman

can't say how boston feels, that seems to be a more complex stew.

― omar little, Friday, April 8, 2011 5:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i get what gya and cidepress are saying in general but even if you wanted to love him unconditionally manny didn't exactly make it easy--something bad went down in 2008 and we'll never know the whole story, unless you want to believe that it was an exceptionally executed instance of pr/spin/media manipulation. but even before that there was always some sort of swirl--did he like playing here? did he hate it? it seemed to change every couple months. is that 100% on the media? possibly, but possibly not.

of course the post-sox ped stuff complicates the issue further for a lot of fans. i can easily choose to just remember the good times w/manny--because there are so many of them--but there was other stuff there too.

There was an extra innings game at Jacobs Field where Eckersley gave up the game winning home run to Manny- it's semi-famous on video because Dennis turned around, followed the ball and just mouthed "wow". I was at that game and sat in in upper deck for 3 hours in the blazing sun (all the good tickets were gone in those days). When the game hit extra innings people started leaving because of the heat which meant we moved into the shade a level below. I saw it in the good seats.

Before that Manny had been talked about by the Tribe as the can't miss player of the century. Sports talk radio was gaga over that pick- I drove a delivery van in those day and heard it every day. Jacobs Field had just been built- Albert Belle came in, Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, Sandy Alomar, Colon. One right after the other.

I moved a couple years ago (my current place) and the neighborhood bar that I latched onto had (and still has) a Red Sox fan as a bartender. First time I was there I asked her to put the Indians game on and they were playing the Red Sox (with M. Ramirez). We talked about how great a hitter Manny was for about a half an hour.

i guess i'm getting all billy crystal

in another words i didn't have sex with the bartender

brownie that's a great post. it really was an incredible cavalcade of players coming into cleveland.

oh wait, i came here to post this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/1191648169_0157.jpg

Nothing against Manny, but the original intent of this thread was to ponder the odd/inane South Korean cartoons on various MLB topics du jour.

(Is the artist still making them? They were pretty lol)

dunno, pretty sure this thread is about MANNY RAMIREZ now. all this comics were pretty awesome looking though.

great article -

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/sports/baseball/26manny.html

Nothing against Manny, but the original intent of this thread was to ponder the odd/inane South Korean cartoons on various MLB topics du jour.

― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Sunday, April 17, 2011 4:51 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you have been on some thread police shit lately, or maybe i am just noticing it more

lol maybe you can gargle on my nuts?

daaaaamn shasta going hard

oooh, got me good!

nooooooooooooooooo

Former World Series MVP Manny Ramirez has been arrested over a domestic incident ... TMZ has learned.

did he punch himself in the tits?

she laughed at his shriveled nards

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/09/13/police-report-manny-ramirez-slapped-his-wife-causing-her-to-hit-her-head-and-fear-for-her-safety

HE IS AN A

Manny always makes me think of a Pedro Guererro story Bill James related in one of his books. It was when Guererro was still with the Dodgers and they moved him from first to third. (Paraphrase) "'Which one is that?' Pedro said, and he just kept on hitting."

Pedro Guerrero was once legally declared too stupid to be capable of distributing cocaine..

MIAMI (AP) -- A former major league hitter was acquitted of drug conspiracy charges Tuesday, after his attorney argued that his low IQ prevented him from understanding that he had agreed to a drug deal.

Federal prosecutors argued that Pedro Guerrero, formerly of the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, told an undercover agent and an informant that he would guarantee payment for a $200,000 cocaine shipment.

But Guerrero's lawyer, Milton Hirsch, told the jury that the four-time National League All-Star and co-MVP of the 1981 World Series was duped by his friend, Adan "Tony" Cruz.

"He really never understood that he was being asked to involve himself in a drug deal," Hirsch said.

The jury acquitted Guerrero after four hours of deliberation.

Guerrero, 43, retired from baseball in 1992. Hirsch said he dropped out of sixth grade in his native Dominican Republic, and has an IQ of 70, Hirsch said. The Miami resident can not perform simple tasks, such as writing a check or making a bed, and receives a small weekly allowance from his wife, Hirsch said.

wow. kinda lol but mostly really sad.

That's something...I meant it more as, they're both guys who have zero interest in anything about the game except for hitting, and that they're flaky to boot. Didn't mean to make fun of Guerrero's intellect.

I know but thats a crazy story I like to share whenever possible

BrettAnderson49: Manny just asked if I was the video coordinator…our relationship can only go up from here.

Anderson does look like an A/V man, tbh.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/420394_10100744539878070_15924154_54570044_1185998548_n.jpg

sure

still BEST PLAYER

"The guy ex-Red Sox manager Terry Francona told Peter Gammons in a candid moment was "the worst human being I've ever met""

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/jon-heyman/17927093/i-like-the-new-pollyanna-manny-everythings-a-blessin

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

oh that's rich

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3poqgsFvc1qk9es5o1_500.jpg

season debut for the sacramento river cats tonight

scratched from today's lineup with a sore wrist from whiffing three times last night

Nothing against Manny, but the original intent of this thread was to ponder the odd/inane South Korean cartoons on various MLB topics du jour.

sorry antonin scalia

"Outfielder-Designated Hitter Manny Ramirez has requested his outright release from the Oakland Athletics and the team has granted his request."

slugging .349 in the pcl is not too good

he's bored yn

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/manny-ramirez-signs-contract-taiwan-115502415--mlb.html

http://media.insidecounsel.com/insidecounsel/article/2012/08/06/2219700756_8c7ab75aca_o33-resize-380x300.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/o9lIkHl.jpg

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130604&content_id=49558550&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjBDmICp30U

”This ball is long gone, just like the ex-girlfriend who will never return!”

that is amazing. also by far the most rapturous response that i've ever seen in reaction to a solo home run to in the bottom of the second inning.

Manny Ramirez says he's hoping to get interview to play in United States

Manny Ramirez decided to end his contract in the Taiwan professional baseball league one week before its expiration date, and although the quirky outfielder denied having an offer to play in Japan or the United States, he says he's looking forward to getting one.

minor league deal with the rangers!