Manny Heading to LA LA Land

Well somethings don't always go the way you want. In fact, maybe we should start to suspect that the next time a trade is talked about 'most likely' happening we should interpret it as it is a deal doomed for failure.

That was the case with rumors that said that Boston slugger Manny Ramirez was heading to Florida in a three team deal involving the Pirates. Then around 1:00 it was annoucned by ESPN that the deal was dead. By 4:00 nothing had been said about any deal involing Ramirez and it appeared that Manny was going to stay a Red Sox. Until 4:30 pm.

At that time it came across the wire that Manny Ramirez had indeed been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, not the Florida Marlins, in a three team deal involving Pittsburgh. Boston got in return Jason Bay of the Pirates, an All Star outfielder to plug into left.

This deal is terrible for all sides except for maybe the Pirates. At least Pittsburgh gets promising prospects in Craig Hanson and Brandon Moss from the Sox.

Manny will be add to the headache that has been a first year for Joe Torre in LA. Torre was brought there to manage an insane clubhouse with pompous stars like Jeff Kent and Nomar Garciaparra. Now he has Manny. Oh Joy! The Dodgers are a .500 team, and don't expect them to catch the D'Backs for the division because Manny is there. There are too many egos for this club to take off. This will be a total circus and don't think Manny and the Dodgers will work well together.

As for Bay, he is a nice player. Gives you 25 homers and 95 RBI, but he is not Ramirez, who was good in the clutch. Bay has never been in the postseason, and with him batting behind David Ortiz, people will look to get around Big Papi to get to Bay or any one behind Papi. There will be no more fear that if you walk Papi, Manny is will coming to the plate to teach you a leason. The Red Sox have doomed themselves, and expect them to miss the playoffs entirly.