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By rss@youtube.com (ryebreadraz) The 2008 LA Dodgers saw their season start in Vero Beach, go to China, play in the Coliseum, play 162 games, add Manny Ramirez, win the NL West and beat the Cubs in the NLDS. Here's a look a that journey in pictures. Author: ryebreadraz Keywords: Baseball Dodgers 2008 Los Angeles

By rss@youtube.com (rotohogspoofs) Manny leaves Fenway Park for the last time and heads off to Hollywood. Check out this google map animation featuring clips of Manny leaving the Park to a song sung by Madonna. Manny leaves the Red Sox in a threeway trade involving the Red Sox, Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers including player...

By rss@youtube.com (dodgerfilms) Nice idea, Webb, walking Ethier to get to Manny. Manny hits his 521st career home run, tying Ted Williams and a couple others on the all-time list. September 6, 2008, to put the Dodgers up 3-0 in the 5th inning. They went on to win 7-2 to take sole possession of first place for the first time since A...

By rss@youtube.com (DodgersMan117) August 16, 2008 Dodgers vs. Brewers Manny makes a nice catch to rob Fielder of a hit and then makes a throwing error. Author: DodgersMan117 Keywords: Manny Dodgers Brewers Braun Fielder Added: August 17, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (solbrains) Conor Jackson smacks a fly ball into left field off 20 year old Clayton Kershaw. What should have been a single turns into a double due to sloth like reaction time of Manny Ramirez and Matt Kemp.... Arizona Diamond Backs versus LA Dodgers at Chavez Ravine - Randy Johnson faces off against Clayton...

By rss@youtube.com (spookyunltd) A 428 foot shot against the D'backs on Aug. 2, 2008. Note: I didn't exactly have my camera fixed on the ball because after he hit it, I froze due to all the excitement. Sorry. Author: spookyunltd Keywords: Los Angeles Dodgers Manny Ramirez home run Diamond backs dbacks Added: August 3, 2008

Unknown length - 2008-08-02 The baseball slugger and 12-time All Star left Boston this morning and will arrive in time to play Friday night. Jim Hill reports.

By rss@youtube.com (paulb3) This vid is the last at bat for Manny Ramirez as a member of the Red Sox, taken during the Angels game at Fenway Park on July 30. Love him or hate him, we'll miss him as he shuffles off to the Dodgers. Author: paulb3 Keywords: Manny Ramirez Red Sox baseball last at bat Fenway Park

Ramirez ultimately re-signed with the Dodgers in early March, which appeared to be his destiny. But the Giants were ready to pounce on Ramirez in case the ... and more »

Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times / June 21, 2008) By Bill Shaikin In a televised news conference last March, on the day Manny Ramirez agreed to his new ... Carroll's Contract Doesn't Include 'Manny Clause'RealGM.com Los Angeles Dodgers

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Great trade, who'd we get? PTBNLs, it seems. Tim Brown says the Dodgers will pick up about half of the remaining $18.5M owed to Pierre for the final two seasons of his deal, thus adding to a staggering $52M owed as deferred compensation to Andruw Jones, Jason Schmidt, Manny Ramirez, and a host...

Manny Ramirez is coming back to the Dodgers next season. The team said Friday that the slugger exercised his $20 million contract option for 2010. His agent Scott Boras informed Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti of the decision. Ramirez hit .290 with 19 home runs and 63 RBIs in 104 regular s...

By Steve Adams No surprise that Gurnick lists Manny Ramirez as the biggest question mark heading into 2010. Manny's 37, and while many feel he's a lock to pick up his $20MM option for 2010, Gurnick cautions not to be too sure. As Gurnick points out, Manny is as unpredictable as they come, as is his agent, Sco...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) Manny Ramirez will be back with the Dodgers in 2009, having exercised his option to return for the fee of $20M, according to True Blue LA / Jon Heyman's twitter feed.  Man, I feel uncomfortable citing twitter feeds; however TBLA is pretty sound and I trust Eric Stephen.  Let's hope it's the la...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) Would Dodgers fans react negatively if the team were to pay big money to free agents when the nation's economy is in sharp decline and many Americans are losing their jobs? That was the question posed by Dodgers President Jamie McCourt as she made an appearance with her husband, team owner...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steve Sax) Be Manny. Manny Ramirez? He was bathing. By the time the Dodgers had finished staining themselves with a ninth-inning collapse in a 5-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, Ramirez was just scrubbing clean.

By Jimmy Bramlett “You know, to me he’s a starting pitcher in game one, so I felt that that’s what I needed to do.” Manny Ramirez came up and then belted a home run to center field getting the Dodgers to within 5-4. For the Dodgers, the walks were a huge issue.

LOS ANGELES -- Manny Ramirez did his postseason thing -- a two-run home run to cap a three-run Dodgers rally that got them back in the ballgame in the fifth inning. It was the 29th of Manny's postseason career, the most of anyone. Going to the bottom of the 6th, it's Phils 5, Dodgers 4.

By Zack Jerome The Dodgers were a team riding on the dreadlocks of Manny Ramirez and hoping Derek Lowe's sinker could continue ducking under the powerful lefty bats in the Philadelphia lineup. It was simply not to be. The phrase made famous by the Dodgers back in Brooklyn rang so true as the Phillies celebr...

By Jimmy Bramlett Offensively the Dodgers are more than Manny Ramirez. Andre Ethier has stepped up huge for the Dodgers getting key hits all season long including back-to-back walk-offs against the Phillies at Dodgers Stadium this season. His gaudy 1.905 OPS against the Cardinals shows that his intensity...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Top 3rd: The St. Louis fans have nothing to root for so far, as the Dodgers get a run in the first on a Manny Ramirez RBI double, and now in the third, Andre Ethier clocks one to deep right field to make it 3-0 Dodgers. Manny doubles, and James Loney reprises his role in Game 2 of Player Who Reaches On...

By Will Leitch What DePodesta really did, though, was pave the way for Joe Torre and Manny Ramirez, the guy who made the Dodgers realize their true personality is like its city itself: Transplants tired of the anger planet elsewhere, heading to the sunshine and the convertibles and they "hey, man, will...

By By BILLY WITZ Manny Ramirez, who endured a 50-game suspension for drug use this season, is in a batting slump as the Dodgers get ready for the playoffs.

If the loudest applause Friday at Dodger Stadium went to Manny Ramirez after his fourth inning home run, the second loudest came in response to an image on the video board that showed the Colorado Rockies trailing the Diamondbacks in the ninth inning.

By kensai Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness: A recent recap of Brad Penny being a dick. Sons Of Steve Garvey: "Steve Sax" addresses a hilarious quote about Manny Ramirez. L.A. Dodger Talk: Mark wants the Dodgers to trade for Hanley Ramirez. Ump Bump: The 2003 Dodgers were almost great.

By Doug Rush On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003. Now, Manny served his suspension. He got caught in May for his steroid use and was suspended 50 gam...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Also wasted: a highlight-reel catch by Manny Ramirez in the seventh to end the inning and rob Brendan Ryan of a possible homer; the stadium scoreboard operator was sufficiently fooled by the closeness of the thing that they actually fired off the home run fireworks before somebody reali...

By Christian Karcole Manny Ramirez has the world of baseball caught in an abusive relationship. At night, away from the public eye, Manny finds a way to get into disagreements with his boss and eventually, finds himself in trouble with Major League Baseball. Yet as a baseball fan, it's a shame to see.

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Dodgers got quickly to Mike Pelfrey, touching him for three in the second in a fairly humiliating way, the first run scoring on a bases-loaded walk. Manny Ramirez singled in the other two, and the Dodgers were off to the races, as it were; if they didn't post a lot of big innings, they surel...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) What You Throw Up Depends On What You Eat Keith Olbermann, whom I usually like, is sickened by Manny Ramirez' return to a Dodgers uniform (and I think it's fair to say you could say any major league uniform). Style Points has the obvious prescription, er, diagnosis. Thanks to Marc Normandin f...

Manny Ramirez was not in the Los Angeles Dodgers' starting lineup for the first time since he returned from a 50-game drug suspension on Friday. Ramirez was given the day off by manager Joe Torre to allow him to return slowly to the majors after he missed 50 games for violating major league ba...

Reed Saxon / AP Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez will need a boost in the voting to make the All-Star team as a starter. He is sixth among National League outfielders, nearly 370000 votes out of third place. By Bill Shaikin and Dylan Hernandez Manny ...

 NY The Los Angeles Dodgers: Who needs Manny? Even without the suspended Ramirez, the Dodgers are continuing to roll merrily along. They have the best record in baseball, and right now only the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies look like a threat to ...

By Tim Hammer I'll just tell you this, he makes everyone feel like they're the important one. I don't know if I am explaining this properly, but this is Manny Ramirez - one of the premiere players in all of baseball, and he's talking to you as if you're the special one in the conversation. I don't know anythin...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Thanks to David Pinto. (I also liked Jon's spin: "I don't find this quote surprising or damaging in any way, since we know how unlikely it is that Ramirez will finish his career with the Dodgers or even in the National League.") Juan Castro To Join The Dodgers Today Per Tony Jax. "I'm guessing De...

The Dodgers broke the tie in the seventh. Furcal and Hudson singled with one out, and Ramirez smacked a double to the base of the wall in right-center off Edward Mujica to score them both. After an intentional walk, a pitching change and a strikeout, James Loney singled off Cle Meredith to sco...

DODGERS Rafael Furcal ss Manny Ramirez lf Russell Martin c Chad Billingsley p Rafael Furcal will get tomorrow's 12:30 p.m. game off, with Blake DeWitt playing short. Joe Torre said his plan was to give Furcal one day off a week, either through a day off for the team or a night out of the lineup.

By Jimmy Bramlett LA Dodgers defeat San Diego Padres 4-1. Manny Ramirez went 0-for-3 with a walk and scored a run in the third inning thanks in large part to an errant pick-off play by Padres ace Jake Peavy. The game started off on the right foot for the Dodgers when Rafael Furcal and Orlando Hudson led off the gam...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are Cokin's team to beat in the National League West. The Dodgers' win total is 85, one lower than the Arizona Diamondbacks' total. The Dodgers re-signed slugger Manny Ramirez, and youngsters Chad Billingsley and Clayton Kershaw ...

Manny has shown that he has an ability to significantly alter our lineup," said Colletti. "Our organization has maintained its commitment to our core of young, homegrown talent while also retaining such key veterans as Casey Blake, Rafael Furcal, and now Manny, all of whom helped us reac...

By Jimmy Bramlett We should know later today whether Manny Ramirez will agree to the Dodgers' contract offer. I really like the offer and think it's a win-win situation for both the Dodgers and Manny. If Manny performs well and the market takes a turn for the better, he can opt out and go back on the open market. If...

While those numbers stood out to the rest of baseball, the Giants don't seem to understand the gravity of such a meager supply of offense. Perhaps its best we review. Baseball games are won by the team that finishes with the most runs. ... Manny Ramirez on the 'back burner' for Giants Rotoworld.com

Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti was interviewed by Tony Bruno on KLAC-AM (570), and here's some of what was said... I'm ready to go (laughs). Of course, we need to get Manny Ramirez first and a couple more pitchers, and I'll be more ready to go than I am right now.

By Joe Zedalis As hard as Scott Boras may be trying to portray the San Francisco Giants as serious bidders for Manny Ramirez, it's even harder to find executives in baseball who believe that. According to one source familiar with the Giants' thinking, just about every recent rumor connecting the Giants...

Manny Ramirez: The Dodgers are not believed to have restated nor increased their offer of two years and $45 million to Ramirez while the Giants debate whether to make a three-year offer, the L.A. Times reports. "It's actually not what we're looking for," San Francisco GM Brian Sabean told XM...

Filed under: Dodgers, Giants, NL West, MLB RumorsPlanet Manny continues to spin into an unknown galaxy this offseason. Much like hanging curveballs thrown to Manny Ramirez, each rumor concerning his destination in this free agency season is promptly knocked out of the park. The latest?...

By Joe Zedalis Manny Ramirez still doesn't have a new offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers, but General Manager Ned Colletti said he and Scott Boras, the player's agent, are still talking, according to the Los Angeles Times. Colletti declined to comment on the agreement.

By Tim Dierkes SI.com's Jon Heyman has a new column up, primarily focusing on Manny Ramirez. To review - though the Dodgers and Manny/Scott Boras were just $1.5MM or so apart, owner Frank McCourt ignored Boras' most recent proposals and talked about starting from scratch. Heyman's source believes McCour...

Filed under: Dodgers, Giants, NL West, MLB RumorsIt's no secret that the Giants need offensive help. They've finished 15th in the National League in scoring two years running. It's also become abundantly clear that they're gearing up for a run at the NL West crown in 2009, having signed Ran...

Filed under: Dodgers, Mets, NL East, NL West, MLB Biz, MLB RumorsScott Boras isn't taking New Year's Eve off. Oh no, not while there's commission to be made. Boras is currently experiencing a mixed bag of news with top clients Derek Lowe and Manny Ramirez. Arm bash: MLB Trade Rumors

By Matthew Cerrone In his latest post to ESPN.com, Buster Olney takes a closer look at the dwindling market for free-agent OF Manny Ramirez. According to Olney, the Angels, Mets and Yankees have all said they are out of the bidding on Ramirez, who is unlikely to draw interest from the Phillies, Blue Jays, Cubs,...

By Don Spieles You can’t really blame the LA press for such a transparent move.  Ramirez was all sorts of friendly with them after joining the Dodgers.  Once his end-of-the-season free agency was assured, he began to play to the level he’s actually capable of instead of the pseudo-Manny that jogged to fir...

By Steve Harasymiak The Angels clearly don’t want to be used by Boras but as Yankees general manager Brian Cashman admitted during the CC Sabathia derby, great players can control the timing of when they sign. And no one likes to control the timing more than Boras.

By Michael Street An additional feature of the Furcal deal is how backloaded it is, with $12M in his third year, plus a $3M bonus at the end. That frees up plenty of money for Los Angeles to continue its pursuit of Manny Ramirez in a short-term deal. Manny is one of the three biggest catches in this year’s free agen...

By Steve Harasymiak That being the case, Ramirez’s agent, Scott Boras, is starting to sound a bit desperate, telling Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti the five-year deal Barry Bonds signed with the Giants in the winter of 2002 is a template for a Ramirez-Dodgers deal. Colletti was the Giants assistant ge...

By Associated Press LAS VEGAS -- Ned Colletti is prepared to wait out Manny Ramirez . This is like watching the San Andreas Fault," the Dodgers general manager said Thursday on the ...

By Steve Harasymiak Like Manny Ramirez, perhaps Furcal’s home of the last three seasons (Dodgers) is his best home for the future. White Sox general manager Ken Williams has made his team the leader in the trade market with San Diego general manager Kevin Towers likely to match Williams’ wheeling and dealing...

By noreply@blogger.com (Rob) That's what Diamond Leung says, anyway: Citing the unpredictable state of the economy, Dodgers owner Frank McCourt hinted Tuesday that the team would be reluctant to sweeten the two-year contract offer that would have instantly given Manny Ramirez the second-highest annual salary i...

INSIDE PITCH The Dodgers' first attempt at re-signing left fielder Manny Ramirez fell far short of what Ramirez and his agent, Scott Boras, are looking for. Los Angeles' initial offer to Ramirez its only offer to him before the team's exclusive negotiating window expired on Nov. 13 was a tw...

As general manager of the defending National League West champion Dodgers, Ned Colletti has a full plate this winter. In addition to trying to keep Manny Ramirez in Los Angeles, Colletti has two other key free agents possibly leaving in Rafael Furcal and Casey Blake.

By Jim McLennan The Tribune speculates on where Johnson might end up, if he does go elsewhere. He probably won't want to go too far, but the Dodgers appear to be aiming their cash at Ramirez, while the Padres are in "sell" mode and neither the AL teams (Angels and A's) nor the Giants appear immediately to have...

By Associated Press EDS: SUBS 5th graf to CORRECT to `brake'. AP Photo CALI114 By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer DANA POINT, Calif. -- Jake Peavy probably will be traded by the ...

By Timm Davis …Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti says that reports coming out about how long and how much the Dodgers are planning to offer Manny Ramirez are works of fiction. According to Colletti they haven’t even discussed anything regarding length of contract or money where Manny is concerned....

Filed under: Dodgers, NL West, MLB Biz, MLB Fans, MLB Media Watch, MLB RumorsThe Los Angeles Dodgers are interested in bringing Manny Ramirez back to the city of angels. And why shouldn't they be? Manny's arrival (for free!) from the Red Sox sparked the Dodgers lineup, propelled them into...

By GC Garciaparra signed with the Dodgers in 2006, and they reached the playoffs that season. But they were bad in 2007, and they took off this season only after Manny Ramirez joined the team — by filling a roster spot created when Garciaparra went to the DL. Again.

By Brian Joseph In the fifth, the Dodgers took the lead 3-2 behind a Manny Ramirez RBI single and a Russell Martin RBI ground out but Phillies’ starter Joe Blanton got out of trouble and avoided further damage after Blake DeWitt hit into a double play. ———————– DODGERS’ THREE KEYS Manny, Manny, Manny!

PHILADELPHIA - Pat Burrell, Chase Utley and the Philadelphia Phillies had more than enough power to offset Manny Ramirez in ...

Chase Utley, Pat Burrell and the rest of the Phillies overpower Manny Ramirez to take game one of the NL championship series.

Chase Utley, Pat Burrell and the rest of the Phillies overpower Manny Ramirez to take game one of the NL championship series.

Chase Utley, Pat Burrell and the rest of the Phillies overpower Manny Ramirez to take game one of the NL championship series.

By Bill Chuck The Dodgers now are not the same team as the Dodgers then. • LF Manny Ramirez (.396, 17, 53 in 53 games with Dodgers after July 31 trade from Boston; .332, 37, 121 overall) • 3B Casey Blake (.251, 10, 23 in 59 games with Dodgers after July 26 trade from Cleveland; .274, 21, 81 overall)

It's kind of ironic that the Los Angeles Dodgers come into Citizens Bank Park tonight all full of smiles and good feelings. When you think about it, their road to the National League Championship Series started with a bad mood.

By Michele Tranquilli Father and son. It is a cliché, true enough, but both the Dodgers' Manny Ramirez and Phillies manager Charlie Manuel say that it describes the relationship between the two of them, a relationship that dates to Ramirez' earliest days in the Cleveland Indians organization.

By Al Yes, I know. In fact, Manny Ramirez said it in the postgame press conference, which I listened to with little enthusiasm on the drive home: it takes three wins, not two, to win, and there have been seven five-game series in the history of MLB postseason play in which a team went down 2-0 and cam...

So, I’m positively irate over this turn of events, I was going to write some more on Brian Cashman today, but then I saw something on ESPN.com that I just had to comment on, regarding the Dodgers - specifically, Manny Ramirez. And now Manny, Torre, and the Dodgers are poised to beat the Cubs. Unl...

Manny Ramirez's experience in tight playoff races is sure coming in handy for the Dodgers. Ramirez will try to help extend Los Angeles' new-found lead in the National League West this afternoon in the finale of a three-game set over the ...

 United States - AP Clayton Kershaw pitched seven dominant innings and Manny Ramirez homered for the fourth time in six games as the Dodgers defeated the Cardinals 4-1 in ... David Wright erases Mets’ wrongs Boston Herald all 5 news articles

Plus, the show features more divisional notes and great community e-mail. Enjoy and interact via e-mail at thepitch@mvn.com or via phone at 360-450-MVN3. Manny Ramirez (edward a. bacho/Flickr) The biggest names that changed cities on deadline day made some immediate impact through the w...

By TJ Ferguson The Pirates make out pretty good.  First off, they get Brandon Moss and Craig Hansen.  Then, from the Dodgers, the Pirates also get Andy LaRoche and Bryan Morris. Now, analyzing the end of the deal for the Dodgers.  They get a Manny Ramirez who is in a new place, with new management.  He is also try...

By Orel No word yet on who the Dodgers are giving up. UPDATE:. All baseball-related servers are sluggish! UPDATE:. It's LaRoche. From Robothal:. Pirates outfielder Jason Bay is headed to the Red Sox. The Pirates will receive Andy LaRoche and ...

Hosts Andrew Kappes and Brandon Rosage fought over the best moments from the first half of the ‘08 season, whether the A’s should be selling off their run at the AL West or diving into shallow swimming pools, the Dodgers’ ability to play over .500 baseball and Manny Ramirez‘ shot at convinci...