Manny turns down 25 million for 1 year?

[redblkwht]

courtesy of inside the ivy.com

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=260&f=1167&t=3878955

I'm thinking he's getting blackballed, can you blame these teams?
I sure in the hek don't, good riddance I hope LA takes a pass now.

[Guitar Shark]

Manny is an idiot for rejecting that offer, but the Dodgers are even dumber for making it in the first place.

[chefcraig]

Boras is nuts to think he's going to improve on the 2 yr $45 million deal from a couple months ago. Particularly in this economy, where people (including some in the Dodgers organization) have been losing their jobs on an almost daily basis. This attitude is going to wear thin very quickly, and just may end up biting Boras (as well as Manny) in the ass.

[Guitar Shark]

Any team that signs Manny is going to live to regret it.

[lesfunk]

As a Red Sox fan, all I can say is " Ha HA Dick!"

[Redballjets88]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=frontpage&pollId=67164

no one wants manny

[redblkwht]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/fl...e&pollId=67164

no one wants manny

Agreed..
see that's what I'm thinking, he priced himself out
AND no one wants to deal with his worse than T.O. attitude!

[WARF]

What a piece of shit Manny is... fuck him!

[BITEYOASS]

That dumbfuck couldn't be content with $1.5 million a year?!?! Fuck him and the rest who make ridiculous offers!

[redblkwht]

watch the yanks come up with a deal in the 11th hour..lol!

[chefcraig]

Oh, brother. This has simply gotten beyond the point of being absurd, and has progressed (or digressed, your choice) into utter idiocy.

Manny rejects Dodgers' latest offer

PHOENIX (AP) -- Manny Ramirez has rejected yet another offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers announced Thursday night the star outfielder's agent Scott Boras had declined a one-year, $25 million contract with a $20 million player option for 2010. It was the club's fourth offer to Ramirez this offseason.
"We want Manny back, but we feel we are negotiating against ourselves," Dodgers owner Frank McCourt said in a statement. "When his agent finds those 'serious offers' from other clubs, we'll be happy to restart the negotiations."
General manager Ned Colletti and McCourt met Wednesday in Los Angeles with Boras.
The offer is similar to the two-year, $45 million deal with a buyout or club option that the Dodgers put on the table in November. Ramirez refused the offer and the Dodgers withdrew their proposal. The team came back with a one-year, $25 million offer, but Ramirez turned that down as well. Ramirez also turned down salary arbitration.
"Even with an economy that has substantially eroded since last November, out of respect for Manny and his talents, we actually improved our offer," McCourt said.
"So now, we start from scratch."
A message left with Boras was not immediately returned.
Colletti said there was not necessarily a hard deadline, and that Ramirez was not yet needed in spring training.
"With the season starting a week later, it's a little bit more flexible than it might have been a year ago," Colletti said.
The Dodgers open the regular season April 6 at San Diego.
Ramirez hit .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBIs in 53 games with the Dodgers last season while leading them to the NL West title after he was acquired from Boston at the July 31 trade deadline.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/26/dodgers.ramirez.ap/index.html?eref=si_topstories

[redblkwht]

Hopefully soon LA will call his bluff & walk, then we will see him squirm..
in a perfect world..cubs trade soriano this week & land manny-

love to hate the guy but, clutch IS clutch. go to the giants
not LA bro!

[Igosplut]

watch the yanks come up with a deal in the 11th hour..lol!

I think it's far past the eleventh hour.