Here’s my “but.”

But, if you don’t want to be here – get the eff out. Boston is a sports town. We treat our players differently than other towns. Derek Lowe misses Boston and didnt want to be traded (maybe he should have not been a liability for the organization and erratic with his pitching) but Manny was always wanting out – half the time because his wife caught him cheating on her – and if you dont want to be here – get out.

I took insult to “Boston doesnt deserve me” well you know what – he doesnt deserve us.

Rodney Harrison said this week he wants to be here. Thats what I am talkin’ about.

If anything, my biggest problem is with the media and the way they covered this whole thing. The way they gloated yesterday made me ill.

As for the baseball side of things, Jason Bay is a REALLY good player. It’s just that he’s been hidden away on the Pirates in the depths of the NL and unless you’re a fantasy baseball geek or write for Baseball Prospectus you probably wouldn’t know how good he is.

He’s not the Manny of 3 or 4 years ago, but neither is Manny anymore. Their numbers are roughly the same and figure to be for the next few years as Manny is 36 and on the back end of his prime. While bay is 29 and still in the middle of his. Plus Bay is locked up for ‘09 at less than half of what Manny is making.

Plus Bay has always been on horrible Pirate teams with no protection around him in the line up. Put hitters like Papi, Drew, Youk and so on around him and his numbers could go up. Not to mention the Pirates home park is one of the worse hitters parks in baseball (a number of Bays stats were actually better on the road) and he now gets to play at Fenway.

Can you tell that I’ve been looking for positives to this whole debacle? Fortunately there are some. Unfortunately the “House Organs” haven’t been one of them. House organs as I learned to day is a term for people in the media (writers, radio personalities) who will spin things in favor of teams/against certain players in order to gain favor/exclusive access to teams in return.

Plus, all this reminds me of when the media blowhards were FREAKING out about Randy Moss. Those same dumbass retards that were kissing his ass come January after he broke records for TD receptions and proved that, low and behold, he was a nice guy!

Totally agreed on Planet Mikey. He won me over when he said, on air, that the Arizona Diamondbacks both sucked and blowed. But I love me some Mike Holley, too.

When stuff like this happens I just say to my self, what would Bill Belichick do? If Manny was that disruptive and was determined to leave, maybe it’s for the best.

In the end I just root for the laundry. Whoa this comment is long!!