Manny/Boras admit bad behavior just an act to get more $

[JoeSixPat]

Not that this is a surprise - we all assumed that Boras was pulling Manny's strings of bad behavior to get out of the option years or force a trade.

But thinking it and having them effectively admit it is another thing.

But of course, the Sox made the right call, getting rid of a guy who could and would decide to disrupt the team at any point if he felt it was in his personal or monetary interest.

The important thing about this story is it just confirms the type of person that Boras is - and Manny is for listening to him.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/08/02/ramxedrez_lobbied_to_stay/?page=2

Of all the Manny moments in Boston, the last ranks as one of the most confounding.

Within an hour after Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein informed Manny Ramírez he had been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday, Ramírez's agent, Scott Boras, called the Sox back, according to a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations. If the Sox dropped the option years on his contract - which they had agreed to do if they traded him - Boras said Ramírez would not be a problem the rest of the season.

For the Sox, the source said, Ramírez's pledge of good behavior only served as a tacit admission that his disruptive conduct of the last couple of weeks had been calculated, and they had had good cause to suspect more was in the offing if they did not trade him. The Sox told him thanks but no thanks, what was done was done, and pack plenty of sunscreen.

 

[scout]

Not that this is a surprise - we all assumed that Boras was pulling Manny's strings of bad behavior to get out of the option years or force a trade.

But thinking it and having them effectively admit it is another thing.

But of course, the Sox made the right call, getting rid of a guy who could and would decide to disrupt the team at any point if he felt it was in his personal or monetary interest.

The important thing about this story is it just confirms the type of person that Boras is - and Manny is for listening to him.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/08/02/ramxedrez_lobbied_to_stay/?page=2

Good luck next year. Yes, a ball club will pick him up, but he is not getting his big payday.