then why was it all so good?
Our belated thoughts on the Manny trade, thanks to a couple days spent locked out of the blog because Blogger erroneously thought we were spam.kelly:
Recently Joe Posnanski wrote this great post about Brett Favre. Basically, he said that everything that made Brett Favre one of the greater quarterbacks ever is everything that's making Brett Favre the guy who doesn't care about untidying his legacy. I like this idea, because sometimes it's easy to forget that star athletes aren't actually fictional characters. They may show up on my TV more often than a Law and Order re-run, but there aren't any show runners behind the curtain scripting them into narrative arcs. There aren't very many happy endings in sports. Sometimes there's no real definitive ending at all.
Oh, Manny. I should have known that everything I loved about you was everything that was going to make it so messy when it was time for you to go.
katie:
So, Manny no longer being Manny, at least in Boston. So much to say, but thanks to Blogger thinking that we're spam (I sort of understand-- I mean, Papelbon is a bit of a walking advertisement these days -- maybe he's started hawking Russian mail order brides or something and google-bot got confused), we're a little late getting to this and the emotions have settled. Mostly, I'm annoyed at the attitudes involved and yes, as Kelly points out above, everything about Manny makes his childish exit unsurprising. Which is true and it's not so much him I'm irritated with -- I stopped being irritated with anything Manny does a long, long time ago.
What I'm actually sick of is every single time the Red Sox send a player who is popular with the fans out of town, there's always a series of conveniently-timed leaks from the front office about how unhappy everyone in the clubhouse is with the player, about how the organization tried to make this a good exit/keep the player but were unable to due to their inherent uncooperativeness, etc, etc, etc. It happened with Nomar, it happened with Pedro, it sort of happened with Schill, and it's happening again with Manny. I'm not saying it's not true. if I were a player on that team, I'd probably be irritated with all the superstars. But only to a point. I mean, professional athletes are used to insane, overpaid, and over-pampered prima donnas. and more than any player before, everyone knew how exasperating Manny could be. But just once I'd like to see a classy response from the front office about how the player has given a lot to the organization, but a business decision is a business decision so thanks and goodbye that isn't then undermined by playing on the Boston media's tendency to turn on any player with the slightest provocation. I mean, maybe they're not doing that, but it's awfully coincidental, you know?
Unrelated to all that, Jason Bay! I like that if we're going to add another boring white guy to the team that it's a Canadian one with (hopefully) neutral feelings on religion and not too much interest in making himself a New England folk hero. He seems like a decent fellow, really.
kelly:
Having spent a couple days telling people that I would like to sell them Viagra and XXX porn (you know, the usual spammer stuff), I've calmed down a little bit. I agree with Katie, the front office stuff is frustrating. It's like, yeah, all the rumors that are coming out are most likely true, but it doesn't make me feel good to have learned that stuff, you know? It increases the time between when I was bummed that Manny left and when everything was a fuzzy memory of good times, shenanigans and towering home runs.
I am prepared to embrace the Jason Bay era. Although, with Manny's departure and Lugo's trip to the DL (get well
posted by always thinking about papelbon @ 8:44 PM
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Katie and Kelly,
I myself am a gigantic redsox fan who watches the game every single fucking night. I found your blog last night randomly and fell in love with it. So much so that it inspired me to begin my own sox blog last night. I especially loved your post from the Josh Beckett complete game shutout of the LA Angels of Wherever, during the playoffs last season. I think i am going to steal your idea from that post and crack open my 24 pack and rewatch todays beating of the A's tonight.
I love you girls. I am trying to help achieve posting blogs that are anywhere near as fun to read as yours.
Check mine out sometime...
http://redsoxanddrinkers.blogspot.com/
Thanks again and keep entertaining,
Terrance
Terrance, you are lucky, now that I'm a grown-up, I can't live blog drunk on week nights (except for during the play-offs, obviously) -- I'm impressed! Best of luck with your blog.
What's not to love about Jason Bay? I don't know why the boring white guy remarks, as long as he can help us win, I don't think anyone is going to care that he's a waspy canadian.
(found you as a suggestion on my google reader - hello!)
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