never mind, i found it

That was a good article. For all the grief Manny takes, he certainly helps his team win like few other players. I love the one commentor who said Manny isn’t a proven winner because he doesn’t play hard all the time. First of all, how does he know how often Manny plays hard? Secondly, I’ll take Manny playing hard 90% of the time over most players playing hard 100% of the time.

Carlos Baerga would be much, much cheaper.

BRING BACK OMAR!!!!

How is Mr. Dolan going to feel when he sees the title to this thread, and comes to read this sort of upper-case stuff? Would he be expected to feel generous?

Thanks. I admit it was almost reason enough to post the article.

Just saw this on espn.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=smith_stephen&id=3896206

Apparently, Stephen A. Smith feels that Manny needs to get more than 2 years @ $25M per, because MLB broke attendance records 4 years in a row. Never mind that season ticket holders aren’t buying the tickets they’ve bought in the past. Never mind that Manny drove himself out of Boston and that other teams are unwilling to spend $25M (that they don’t have) on a player that could pack it in at the drop of a hat. Apparently, because Manny has hit 500+ home runs, he is worth more than a 2 year, $45M contract.

One of the few things that really gets on my nerves is blatantly ignorant people that have a forum to reach the masses.

How does Manoloff (who I have heard of, but is not in the Pluto-realm of Cleveland reports, nor as well-known as Hoynes) know for sure that the Indians haven’t attempted to sign Manny?

Granted, it’s likely they won’t succeed, but it’s not out of the question that the Indians at least called and asked if they’d be interested in such-and-such (i.e. “kick the tires” around on a deal, just to see if there is any interest). That does constitute “effort,” right?

It’s also likely that if that did occur, that wouldn’t be reported to the media until later, if ever. Therefore, Manoloff is speculating that the Indians have made no “effort” to sign Manny – how can he be sure? In my opinion, he can’t – he’s just speculating, which is probably part of the reason why we’re thinking he’s connected with Hoynes when it comes to reporting (i.e. not the quality of reporting we’d expect from Pluto or other sources, such as Lastoria and the LGT fanbase). He offers his opinion on why they should sign Manny, but gives no evidence that they haven’t at least considered it and gives no concrete reason on how to go about signing him, being that the Indians reportedly don’t have any money left for FAs.

Just my 2 cents.

Even this is assuming other players didn’t get raises, but they did.

Wood + DeRosa + Pavano = $17 million. This ain’t rocket science.

Not if your agent is Scott Boras.

i would cry. i think.

Manny doesn’t have ‘thoughts’.

It is possible that Manny (a) would rather have a one-year deal than a two-year deal, (b) can’t get a three-year deal, © would rather play for the Indians for $15 million than the Dodgers for $25 million.

don’t forget the key role of manny’s close friend frank mancini

Love it, rec.

I should have said “demands”.

His name is Robert Paulson.