Every season, the Red Sox try and push Manny Ramirez around, to get him to play by their rules. Every year, they fail miserably and he calls their bluff.
Yesterday the Red Sox all-star told some radio station that he doesn't care if the Red Sox trade him -- he'll approve it. Manny has a stipulation in his contract that states he has to approve any trade. Manny stated that he's tired of the Red Sox, and if they're tired of him, they'll trade him, but he knows that "the Red Sox are not stupid."
The funny thing about it is that he's exactly right: they're tired of him, but they're not going to trade him because he's too good. They need him.
Unfortunately for the Red Sox, they've taken several mis-steps in the whole Manny ordeal, which seems to resurface at about this exact time every season.
Last week in the final game against the Mariners, Manny sat the game out because he said his knee was sore. He also sat out the next game, the opener against the rival Yankees. The Red Sox conducted an MRI on his knee, which showed no problems in his knee. That's where they should have left it. Instead, they voiced their frustration with Manny and the fact that he took two games off. Why? All they did was create the new controversy in which they can't look good. Either they trade him and make their team worse, or they keep him and make it look like he's running shit in Beantown. Why not just say his knee was sore so he needed two days to rest? Other players do it all the time. Giambi doesn't even play against lefties and most catchers take a day off every week. So why can't Manny? Well, he can, according to him. He just wants the Red Sox to stfu about it.
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