Foxsports.com’s Ken Rosenthal, offering some predictions the other day and writing what most folks in baseball pretty much expect, guesses, “Manny Ramirez will be a pain in the rear,” and hurt the Dodgers this season.
It’s the reason why Ramirez remained available this off-season—everyone expecting the worst out of the guy and scared off. Those who passed on him have to be hoping he falls flat and disappoints so they can tell their fans they had it figured right all along.
That’s what makes the Dodgers a must-see team this season—at the very least all eyes on Ramirez waiting for him to mess up.
As Rosenthal put it, the “relationship between Ramirez and Los Angeles is sickeningly sweet,” a relationship that annoys those who supposedly know the real Ramirez.
Rosenthal also referred to Page 2 as Ramirez’s “personal Oprah.” As you know, that’s not true, given the one obvious difference between Page 2 and Oprah—she’s rich.
Hard to find fault, though, with the guy we’ve gotten in L.A. so far—Ramirez doing and saying all the right things, the Dodgers relevant again and other players seemingly improved because he’s here in the lineup and the clubhouse.
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1. Phil Coorey. Posted: April 07, 2009 at 11:58 AM (#3127762)In baseball, you might have to play 21 games to win the championship, in a 162 game season (13% of the length of the regular season, for the play-offs).
Football is at most 25%, and for some teams, 18.75%, with a chance the regular season is going to lengthen, reducing that percentage further.
I think NBA basketball players may need to coast a bit in the regular season, if the goal is to win in the finals. That having been said, there is no reason for the Clippers ever to coast; their season ends at game 82.
Not that I'm disagreeing, but Alex Gordon is batting seventh for the Royals.
Seriously...everyone knows it's a commonwealth, not a state.
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