{"id":37,"date":"2008-08-03T04:31:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T04:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-02-07T05:25:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:25:54","slug":"manny-trade-restores-team-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.charliebisbee.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Manny Trade Restores Team Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Manny<\/a>I write for a website called the \u201cBoston Red Sox Fan Site\u201d and so it is with a considerable degree of shame and embarrassment that I sit here and confess that, for the past few years, I haven\u2019t been much of a Sox fan. I\u2019ve retained my Sox memorabilia and paraphernalia, I\u2019ve watched the games here and there, I\u2019ve carried the company card (not literally, of course\u2013anyone who purchases a \u201cRed Sox Nation\u201d card to validate his or her fandom should be bashed over the head with a wiffle bat). But my heart and my soul, the heart and soul I used to pour into every pitch of every inning, were off taking an extended, seventh-inning stretch.<\/p>\n

What a difference a trade makes.<\/p>\n

I was more into last night\u2019s 2-1 victory over the Oakland A\u2019s than I was into any of the Sox\u2019 World Series games this past October. All of a sudden the Sox spunk was back. The hustle, the grit, the team dynamic<\/em>; the intangibles that, I always used to fancy, separated us from the heart-less Yankees; all this came as the result of exchanging Manny Ramirez for Jason Bay.<\/p>\n

The Sox are no longer a collection of talented ballplayers held hostage under the prima-donna swagger of a millionaire gun-for-hire. By replacing Manny with his natural antithesis, (Bay, an unassuming, team-first ballplayer), the Sox restored their dignity and dropped the traveling circus routine. They became a team again. And a baseball team is what I\u2019ve been waiting and hoping to root for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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