The Red Sox are nothing without Manny

[gametime_365]

Agree its not so much that Manny is gone, its the fact that Tampa is playing on another level. Putting up 31 runs over the last 3 games against quality pitchers. Plus they flat out run the bases like a track team. A single turns into a double, double becomes a triple.

At this point it doesnt matter if Boston bats Manny in all 9 spots, D-Rays are the better team.

 

[LockStock2SB]

Manny is the best hitter in baseball? Did A-Rod retire and I just don't know about it? Pujols too? I'd take those two any day over Manny. A-Rod is the greatest baseball talent of all time, people just don't give him the respect because they don't like him as a person.

Also, don't the Red Sox have a better record without Manny this year? Ortiz was doing zero with him there this year too, so I wouldn't say Manny makes or breaks Ortiz. Ortiz is just having a bad year, that happens.

Yeah but do you know what Manny and Pujols have that A-Rod doesn't...

Clutch

 

[LockStock2SB]

The Sox averaged 4.9 runs per game until Manny left, then averaged 6 runs per game thereafter-not to mention played markedly better overall. Doesn't sound indispensable to me. Sometimes a team gets old right and brittle in front of your eyes, and that may have happened to them: they don't have Lowell, who was last year's MVP in the Series, and when you have FOUR pretty imporant players who seem like a shadow of their former selves-Ortiz, Varitek, Wakefield, Beckett-you're gonna have problems. I think it's pointless to speculate what would've happened had they kept Manny, because they wouldn't have gotten IN if they'd kept him. When you have that much talent and your teammates go to management and say, get this guy the fuck OUT of here, you've been pretty disruptive.

Yeah but Manny also wasn't trying very hard in a red sox uniform.

 

[MIKEY.1TIME]

Yeah but Manny also wasn't trying very hard in a red sox uniform.

which made him useless in boston

 

[Dafinch]

Yeah but Manny also wasn't trying very hard in a red sox uniform.

Uhhhhh, yeah, that's the whole point of them getting rid of him!:nohead:hno::lolBIG:

 

[knucklecup]

A female fan with a sign at tonights game:

"Manny is playing golf today, this is better"

 

[Redsox3628]

Manny is playing golf today this is better

This is a picture of me at the game on thursday night

 

[RonMexico]

manny does give that team a swagger they didn't have and BTW the red sox are playing golf now