Vaya con dios Manuel: My Top 5 Manny memories.

...Or how i learned to stop worrying and love Jason Bay.

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"Francisco Rodriguez, trying to get this one to extras for the Angels.Manny trying to end it here.K-Rod sets for the 1-0, he fires swing and a LONG DRIVE TO LEFT! WAY BACK! DEEP INTO THE NIGHT! THREE RUN WALK-OFF HOME RUN, MANNY RAMIREZ!"

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walk-off home run to win the ALCS in '07.

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2. Late September game in the toilet vs MFYs- The ever hateable Miguel Cairo launches one to left of Bronson Arroyo(iirc) Manny goes back and jumps at the wall. Cairo gets the whole way around the bases and is high fiving teammates in the dugout before he realises that Manny caught the ball and is standing in left field in fits of laughter.

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Miguel Cairo looks like someone just ran over his mother

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3. The fact that when Manny was bad...he was very bad. Running down to a hotel bar in San Francisco to watch the highlights of the sox-orioles game still wearing my sox hat.This sparked many a jibe from the many Yankee fans in the bar...this got worse when an oriole player gets a hit to center field and Johnny Damon fields it and goes to throw the back to the infield.Manny dives to his left and cuts off the throw before firing back to the infield himself. To this day no one has been able to work out what he was doing. You had to laugh.

4. Manny races back, makes a basket catch and his momentum carries him towards the stands. He jumps up, high fives a fan he notices is wearing a sox jersey before firing back to second to double off the runner. I have never laughed so hard at anything that happened on a sports field.

5. During a pitching change Manny disappears into the Green monster to relieve himself barely making it back in time for the next pitch.

I shall miss you Manny

almost as much as i will miss mrs manny and manny jr.

"I don't believe in curses" -Manny Ramirez

Now on to rest of the season- Baywatch if you will...urgh.

This is perhaps the most vanilla team in the history of the world. Jason Bay's introductory press conference actually contained the word neat for chrissakes!

J.D Drew and Jason Bay(born in the Land of Bland-Canada)- The Bland Brothers

In fact bar David Ortiz this team is comprised solely of scrappy overachieving white guys. I CALL RACISM.

Heres to a season of productive outs, patient at bats and hustling down the line on ground balls

But il take vanilla if vanilla get results so in the words of one of the crazy mofos that used to inhabit the redsox clubhouse

"We're gonna go on a run...we're gonna win...and we are gonna fucking kick ass starting tonight"- K. Millar

good gawd just please start winning...you're infuriating to watch

Jay,

ortiz;wakefield;timlin;varitek(4/25)

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POST GAME EDIT- Jed Lowrie have my babies...good sweet mike but i love a walk off