A's interested in Manny Ramirez?

Manny Ramirez needs a paycheck. Well...chances are he doesn't really NEED a paycheck. Over the course of his career, Ramirez has earned more than $200,000,000 (!) to hit the ball real far at the plate and watch it go over his head in the outfield. Buf if you have the ability and the option of earning millions of dollars playing a kid's game as opposed to the alternative of sitting around and twiddling your thumbs, one tends to choose the former over the latter. And while he'd have to still serve a 50-game suspension for a positive PED test if he were to make the decision to end his retirement, the fact of the matter is that at 39, his body has held up about as well as any that has played parts of 19 seasons in the Major Leagues. The Oakland Athletics on the other hand need to put butts in the seat. This isn't an overstatement. Fan apathy in Oakland is still running high despite the team's best efforts to inject some enthusiasm into their cavernous stadium. In...