Manny Ramirez: Good Riddance!

The hardest part of this saga to swallow isn't that we had to give up so much to give away a future Hall of Fame slugger still in the tail-end of his prime (for free, mind you), but how quickly everything erupted. Within one month Manny went from fan-favorite, just Manny Being Manny, to a senior citizen abuser (which we overlooked), to the scourge of the Earth and the biggest problem in our already-riddled-with-problems lives.... This was the result of Manny's media-attack on the organization. He literally held us hostage, and we had no choice but to negotiate with a terrorist. Where he to silently request to be traded, there's no doubt we could've walked away with a much better haul for the slugger. But he didn't do that (of course, where he to go that route, we may not have traded him at all). He attacked our owners and our organization openly and frequently to the press. He kept his bat on his shoulder, held himself out of games, refused to show any semblance of hustle on the field. He sucked the life and focus out of our team and brought the entire city of Boston to a grinding halt....