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Entries from Empyreal Environs tagged with “Ramirez (Manny)”

Missing the Idiots

How angry would you be about the Red Sox’s recent losing streak had 2004 not happened? This is one of the many things we can now take in stride thanks to that odds-defying team from a decade ago. Manny Ramirez acknowledged his poor behavior and apologized in person to traveling secretary Jack McCormick, with whom Ramirez had a physical altercation in 2008. His turnaround seems to have convinced the Cubs front office, who hired him as a player-coach for the Triple-A Iowa Cubs. Ramirez exited from his door in left field to much applause, a 180-degree reversal from when he all but forced the Red Sox to trade him with his awful behavior, on field and off. Thanks to Ramirez, no one raises an eyebrow when a left fielder has a bit of a nosh between batters. While Kevin Millar joked about how everyone got fat, there was one player whose weight had declined. Curt Schilling looked somewhat gaunt and pale in the wake of cancer treatment but he was healthy enough to participate in the celebration. Pedro Martinez graced the booth with his wit and wisdom. Perhaps he can fit in a few shifts as color analyst when he...

Pair of Worn Out Sox

In early September the White Sox came to Fenway and swept the Red Sox in a three-game series. The Southsiders had just claimed Manny Ramirez off waivers to help them in their push to clinch the wild card. By the time Ozzie Guillen and his squad departed Boston for Detroit they passed by the Red Sox for the wild card. Since then both teams have flagged in the race for the postseason. Ramirez wasn’t the catalyst Kenny Williams hoped for. In 66 at bats with the White Sox Ramirez has displayed poor power (one double, one home run, .318 slugging percentage) but has reached base reasonably well (.410 on-base percentage). Clay Buchholz seems to have selected Tom Brady as his role model. Marry a blond model? Check. Tousled hairstyle? Check. Three championships? Almost there.Game 156: September 27, 2010Red Sox 87-696W: Clay Buchholz (17-7)2B: Adrian Beltre – 2 (48), David Ortiz (36), Marco Scutaro – 2 (36)White Sox 83-731L: Mark Buehrle (12-13)No extra base hits....

Sorry Seems to Be the Easiest Word

Manny Ramirez dominated the headlines not because of what he did on the field (a decent 2-for-4 showing but no extra base hits or runs batted in) but because of what he said. Ramirez apologized for his behavior in 2008. “Everything was my fault, but you have to be a real man to realize when you do wrong,” he told reporters. “It was my fault, right. I already passed that stage. I’m happy. I’m on a new team.” A real man wouldn’t shove an elderly man. So what about Pedro Martinez playing matador to the charging Don Zimmer you might ask. That doesn’t count; Zimmer is an elderly gerbil. A real man wouldn’t inject himself with female fertility hormone as part of a steroid regime. A real man wouldn’t wait two years to admit that he was wrong. How genuine is his contrition in light of the fact that he is a free agent next season and has to buff up his tarnished reputation? The only success the Red Sox had was in the execution of the “fake to third” ploy. Of all players Omar Vizquel was lured off of third base when Clay Buchholz feinted a throw in his...

White Flag

Theo Epstein got into the spirit of the election year and gave some serious spin to the trading of Manny Delcarmen to the Rockies for minor league pitcher Chris Balcom-Miller. The Red Sox general manager said the move wasn’t a white flag of surrender, like how the furor over the Islamic center in lower Manhattan (a.k.a “the Ground Zero mosque”) isn’t about hypocrisy and hatred. To be certain, Delcarmen has been pitching so terribly that removing him from the bullpen is a net positive, but since there was no major league piece coming in return clearly the team is geared to improving its future rather bolstering its current state. I should have been accepting of the team’s playoff chances when Kevin Youkilis went down and further inured myself to the inevitable course the season was taking when Dustin Pedroia succumbed to his foot injury, but these are the post-2004 Red Sox! Roaring back against the Yankees and also against Cleveland in 2007 has just unrealistically inflated my expectations of the franchise. Recalling how emotional Nomar Garciaparra was about getting traded I can only imagine Delcarmen’s reaction. Nomar grew up as a baseball player in Boston just like Manny, but the...

Doubront-ain of Youth

With the Red Sox rotation down two starters the team has had to tap into their minor league resources. Felix Doubront, signed as an international free agent out of Venezuela in 2004, started with perfect first and second innings. But before Doubront touched off a wave of Doubrontmania the Dodgers got to him in the third, led by Ronnie Belliard’s double and ending with a 3-3 tie at the end of the third. After five innings the rookie starter left with a fair line: 6 hits, 5 runs (3 earned), 2 walks, and 2 strikeouts. The two unearned runs were the result of his own missed catch of a flip from Kevin Youkilis; he must appreciate the scoring rule that states that pitchers’ errors do not count toward earned run average. David Ortiz’s 15th homer of the season was his 274th with the Red Sox, coincidentally tying him with none other than Manny Ramirez for fifth in career circuit clouts with the club. Ramirez’s reception was surprisingly warm given the animosity many felt when he all but forced his way out of town two years ago. In those two years, however, Red Sox fans have seen two unsuccessful playoff campaigns....

Long Distance Relationship

I can’t wait for the long distance part of my relationship with the Red Sox to be over. I just couldn’t miss two consecutive games in a row, but my computer conspired against me. After two years of faithful service the speakers on my Compaq 6910p no longer work. I tried to reinstall the speaker drivers to no avail. I discovered that something is wrong with the speaker drivers, not with the sound itself, so when I used headphones I could listen to the WEEI broadcast. Hunched over a laptop, alone in a hotel room 437 miles from Fenway: not the ideal way to experience the Red Sox, but it’s better than no baseball. Although Joe Castiglione is a skillful radio broadcaster, seeing the video replay of Chris Young’s snare of Victor Martinez’s fly ball to deep center was impressive. Castiglione mentioned that Young’s cap went askew in the collision with the wall and that he seemed shaken up by the impact, so I specifically looked for those things in the highlight reel. Indeed, the center fielder jogged away from the wall rubbing his ribs, his hat jauntily tilted like a dandy’s. Unlike other outfielders we could mention, his ribs...

Ailing

Game 28: May 6, 2009 Indians9W: Carl Pavano (2-3)S: Aaron Laffey (1)11-17, 1 game winning streak Red Sox2L: Justin Masterson (2-2)17-11, 1 game losing streak Highlights: I must have missed the announcement about the medical breakthrough that allows doctors to surgically excise suck from pitchers. Pavano seems to have underwent the procedure. The Red Sox should see about having Brad Penny submit to the same operation. For the entirety of the game I was on a train wending its way across the Eastern Seaboard. The tracks from Penn Station to South Station carried me from the empire and its possessions back home to the nation.One of my friends sent me text updates on the game. I felt my mobile phone vibrate and I opened it excitedly, hoping to read about yet another Jason Bay homer. Instead, it was a fifth inning update about Victor Martinez’s two-run double. My phone battery was running low at that point and I was worried about missing a home team comeback.I didn’t need to fret.I also don’t worry about Manny Ramirez’s 50-game suspension. It is tempting to look for some sort of parable that somehow makes cohesive narrative of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. A few...

Dissension

Game 152: September 17, 2008 Red Sox 3 L: Tim Wakefield (9-11) 89-63, 2 game losing streak Rays 10 W: Grant Balfour (5-2) 90-60, 2 game winning streak Highlights: Dissension abounded on and off the field. Thought and deed were divergent; the harder Wakefield tried to stymie the Rays lineup the more they hit, the more the visiting batters attempted to hit the less they made contact (except for David Ortiz), the less the defense endeavored to make errors the more they bungled plays. For the past few games Jerry Remy has stated that the Red Sox have the best defense in the American League according to fielding percentage (a questionable statistic, to be sure, but seems to be the method the MLB uses to rate defensive skill). Last night was a blooper reel played out live, particularly by the pitchers. In the third Devern Hansack tossed the ball into center field when attempting to pick off Willie Aybar from second base.Later in that inning Javier Lopez played Gabe Gross’s soft liner to the side and allowed Gross to get on base. Either homerism or sympathy took over in the fourth when David Aardsma and the entire infield failed...

Ecstatically Helping My Friend Move

Scott Boras ecstatically helped his friend Manny move, since the agent would benefit from the brokering of a new free agent deal and would not have profited if a team exercised the 2009 option. Boras did convey Manny’s last ditch attempt to stay with the Red Sox, but the bridges were not only burned but rendered into subatomic particles. You neglected to mention the vast left fieldI forgot all about the lack of DHEcstatically collecting my 10 per cent commission Inspired by the Dunkin’ Donuts commercial....

Defenseless

Game 109: July 30, 2008 Angels 9 W: Joe Saunders (14-5) 67-40, 3 game winning streak Red Sox 2 L: Josh Beckett (9-8) 61-48, 2 game losing streak Highlights: The Angels firmly entrenched themselves as the class of the American League with their sweep of the Red Sox while on the road. In the rush of activity and emotions around the trading deadline I didn’t realize I forgot to post about this game.Teams love to unveil their new acquisitions at Fenway. The Yankees did so with Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte on July 26 and the Angels followed suit by placing Mark Teixeira in the in the three-hole. The switch-hitting slugger was 0-4 with two strikeouts and a walk, but his addition will further strengthen the AL West titans.The Red Sox played the field like a troupe of clowns but without the facepaint or joviality. J.D. Drew was charged with an error in the fourth on his throw to home on Garret Anderson’s single, but perhaps the fault should be laid at the feet of Josh Beckett, who failed to back up home plate.The sixth inning was like an interpretive dance of the turmoil surrounding Manny Ramirez. The Red...

Keeping the East at Bay

He’s gone now. Instead of the Marlins, it was the Dodgers who were the white knights of the deal.The Red Sox receive Jason Bay as previously stated and will pay the remainder of Ramirez’s salary. Manny Ramirez will play in Chavez Ravine, and the Pirates acquire: From the Dodgers: Andy LaRoche, Adam’s brother and promising third base prospect Bryan Morris, a right-handed pitcher in Class A From the Red Sox: Craig Hansen, 2005 first round pick that needs to be salvaged Brandon Moss, outfielder that had no spot in Boston’s current lineup The Marlins got too greedy and asked for the Red Sox to add more money and three prospects to send to the Bucs to the deal while they would surrender Jeremy Hermida and only one minor leaguer.I’m not sure what to think of the entire thing yet except that Scott Boras is a scourge on the sport of baseball....

Manny: A Fond Farewell?

Manny Ramirez’s blasting of the Red Sox organization reported by Enrique Rojas of ESPNDeportes.com was the crossing of the Rubicon for all concerned. By the late innings of last night’s game Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus reported a the skeleton of a three-way deal between the Marlins, Pirates, and Red Sox on the site’s blog, Unfiltered. On the same blog a few hours later Kevin Goldstein echoed Carroll’s report but fleshed out the deal with the names of a few prospects from the Marlins’ side. Interestingly (and thankfully), the prospects coming out of Boston’s organization were removed. The major parts changing organizations were Jason Bay (from the Pirates to the Red Sox), Jeremy Hermida (from the Marlins to the Pirates), and Ramirez (from the Red Sox to the Marlins). The Fish seem to like players from the Red Sox organization named Ramirez. I’ve defended Manny throughout this most recent imbroglio, but it’s clear he wants out. If the Red Sox are looking for a less controversial player you can’t get anyone more vanilla than Bay, although he does have a fan in Eddie Vedder. For some reason lead singer of Pearl Jam urged attendees of his band’s 2006 concert at...

Āchi [アーチ]

Game 107: July 28, 2008 Angels 7 W: Jered Weaver (9-8)H: Jose Arredondo (11)S: Francisco Rodriguez (44) 65-40, 1 game winning streak Red Sox 5 L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (11-2) 61-46, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Folks with Boston accents would feel comfortable with the Japanization of certain English words as they elide the alveolar approximant (a.k.a the English “R” sound). Āchi is the transliteration of “arch” and means home run in Japanese baseball slang. Matsuzaka surrendered two of them in the sixth inning and the Red Sox never recovered. At least Jerry Remy stopped caviling about Daisuke Matsuzaka’s bases on balls for one night. Instead Matsuzaka ceded seven hits, the most harmful of them being the extra base knocks in the sixth inning. The now former Angel Casey Kotchman knocked in Chone Figgins and Torii Hunter blasted a three-run shot a couple of batters later.Nothing in Matsuzaka’s five prior innings of work hinted at this disastrous inning. Although he only struck out three batters, he didn’t surrender anything past second base until the sixth, right after he walked Figgins. I wonder if John Farrell’s attitude towards Matsuzaka’s walks has impacted the pitcher negatively; rather than take in stride as...

Tromped

Game 106: July 27, 2008 Yankees 2 L: Sidney Ponson (6-2) 58-46, 1 game losing streak Red Sox 9 W: Jon Lester (9-3) 61-45, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Can you imagine how much dirt the grounds crew would have to wheel over to the mound if both Ponson and Bartolo Colon were pitching last night? There would be a hole the size of Chicxulub Crater where their landing feet would touch earth. But even the impact of Ponson’s foot paled in comparison to the shockwaves throughout New England caused by Manny Ramirez. It almost is Nomar redux. The same unease is eating away at my innards. From all quarters, the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy, the Herald’s Steve Buckley, and ESPN via Peter Gammons, Manny Ramirez is under fire.The difference between l’affaire Garciaparra and the Ramirez imbroglio is that Nomar, despite all that he meant to the Red Sox, could be replaced, and there were successors who could palliate the defensive woes that plagued the 2004 team while providing a viable bat.How would or could the 2008 Red Sox replace one of the top right-handed bats in history by July 31?That’s a question I don’t want to have spiraling in...

Dismal

Game 105: July 26, 2008 Yankees 10 W: Andy Pettitte (12-7)H: Damaso Marte (16)H: Edwar Ramirez (3) 58-45, 8 game winning streak Red Sox 3 L: Tim Wakefield (6-8) 60-45, 2 game losing streak Highlights: In the first inning the Red Sox scored more runs then they did the entirety of the series opener, but this game was far from a pitchers’ duel. Pettitte started off shaky but settled down in his annoying, veteran, peek-from-behind the glove way that he has done for the better part of a decade with the Yankees. If only he stayed with the Astros. In his career against Andy Pettitte, Manny Ramirez has a .416 batting average, .465 on-base percentage, and .675 slugging percentage with four home runs. But yesterday Ramirez had no hits: not on the field, nor with the Red Sox front office, nor with the Boston media.The atmosphere of circling sharks around toothsome chum seems similar to July 31, 2004 when Nomar Garciaparra was traded to the Cubs. Add in a touch of the five-game sweep by the Yankees in August 2006 and you have the makings of a dismal phase in the defending champions’ season.Jere and I at least got...

Conflicted

Game 104: July 25, 2008 Yankees 1 W: Joba Chamberlain (3-3)H: Kyle Farnsworth (11)S: Mariano Rivera (26) 57-45, 7 game winning streak Red Sox 0 L: Josh Beckett (9-7) 60-44, 1 game losing streak Highlights: The two starters from last night game are inextricably linked; they are both right-handed fireballers possessed of immense talent and intense personalities. Beckett reacted strongly to Chamberlain’s headhunting of Kevin Youkilis in last year's tilt on August 30. The Red Sox were blanked in that game just as they were last night, but this time Chamberlain started the game rather than relieved. Joba Chamberlain’s aggressive tendencies manifested themselves in the bottom of the seventh against his favorite target Kevin Youkilis. Jerry Remy was adamant that Chamberlain’s high and inside fastball that seemed destined for Youkilis’s noggin was not a purpose pitch. With the score 1-0, the bases empty, and none out, Chamberlain ensured that all the circumstances supported his profession that he had no intention of beaning his quarry.Remy is usually on target with his analysis but I think he was off base in this instance. He said Chamberlain would have to be incredibly dumb to pull such a stunt, and I believe that...

Swap

Game 98: July 18, 2008 Red Sox 3 L: Clay Buchholz (2-5) 57-41, 1 game losing streak Angels 11 W: John Lackey (7-2) 58-38, 3 game winning streak Highlights: Buchholz got into trouble early. Consecutive doubles by Casey Kotchman and Maicer Izturis were followed by RBI singles authored by Vladimir Guerrero and Garret Anderson. The latter had a superlative 4-for-5 outing with five RBIs and a solo shot in the fourth. Not only does Los Angeles have doctors that can make your face and body look younger but apparently specialists that can make you play younger, at least for one night. The regular season Angels are their usual ascendant selves, but we know how the tables turn in the postseason. Clay Buchholz’s problem is perhaps he is too young. As bright as his future may be, his present has fell short of perhaps unfair expectations. For the fourth straight outing Buchholz surrendered four or more earned runs and lasted less than six innings.For the Red Sox most of the action happened off the field. In the pre-game show Gordon Edes refuted Bob Lobel’s report (as posted by Steve Silva) that Manny Ramirez’s fine for his assault of Jack McCormick...

Smörgåsbord

Game 94: July 9, 2008 Twins 5 L: Livan Hernandez (9-6) 50-41, 3 game losing streak Red Sox 18 W: Josh Beckett (9-5)H: Javier Lopez (9)H: Craig Hansen (7) 55-39, 3 game winning streak Highlights: The only Red Sox player not to get a hit or run yesterday was pinch runner Jeff Bailey. Boston attained their highest run total of the season thus far. The numbers were staggering. Crooked numbers littered the H column just as Brian Bass’s shards of self-esteem are scattered around the mound in Fenway.The recounting of slugfests are often boring to write. Every inning is peppered with action making it hard to extract the flavor of the game. This game was different thanks to a few oddball seasonings tossed in to lend a unique taste to this smörgåsbord of scores.From the start Josh Beckett wasn’t at his sharpest but neither was Denard Span. Perhaps Span’s looting of Red Sox hits to right field began to weigh on his conscience: he was caught stealing after earning a free pass. Despite the gift out, however, the Twins would score three runs in the first inning.Beckett had some latitude because of the hurler (using the term loosely) opposing...

Habitation

Game 93: July 8, 2008 Twins 5 H: Dennys Reyes (10)BS, L: Matt Guerrier (3, 4-4) 50-40, 2 game losing streak Red Sox 6 W: David Aardsma (3-2)S: Jonathan Papelbon (27) 54-39, 2 game winning streak Highlights: Manny being Papi in the eighth inning with a game-tying two-run shot into the Monster seats. Last night’s game wasn’t as crisply played as the first game of the series. Just ask Coco Crisp himself, who dove after a rapidly descending fly off the bat of Nick Punto to begin the ninth, converting a single into a double. Or Jon Lester, who slogged through seven and one-third innings while surrendering nine hits, five earned runs, and three walks.Even the fans were slacking. A few of them crowded around when Kevin Cash pursued a Carlos Gomez pop fly into the first row of the stands in the fifth. Gomez ended up striking out, as he tends to do, but it would have been a tidy out and one less pitch on Lester’s arm.The Twins have such an unassuming lineup, much like Minnesotans themselves. They come bearing gifts of green bean casseroles and molded Jello only to make themselves too cozy and put up...

Slight

Game 90: July 5, 2008 Red Sox 1 L: Justin Masterson 52-38, 1 game losing streak Yankees 2 W: Mike Mussina (11-6)H: Jose Veras (5)H: Kyle Farnsworth (10)S: Mariano Rivera (23) 46-42, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Joe Girardi’s motivational tactics made an impact at last. His team held the Red Sox at bay until the top of the ninth. The teams tied the record for combined hit batsmen with seven (Masterson hit Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano, and Jose Molina; Mussina plunked Ramirez twice; and Rivera hit Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis). In retrospect, the game was decided in the first inning. Dustin Pedroia, cocksure as always, attempted to stretch his single to left into a double. Perhaps the infielder forgot that it wasn’t Johnny Damon who roamed that portion of the outfield but Brett Gardner.The rookie Gardner isn’t noodle-armed like the veteran he replaced, so Pedroia was out at second easily. J.D. Drew smacked a double to right-center which could have plated Peewee.Mike Mussina’s approach would have been different were he pitching from a deficit in his six innings of work. He already had to grapple with Kerwin Danley’s inconsistent strike zone, making the old-timer even more tetchy than...


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