Manny Ramirez News Archives

No, that would have been that of Paul DePodesta, in 2005. As a Moneyball fan, I was sorry to see DePodesta go.

The next day's starting pitchers always speak to the media before a World Series game.

The Dodgers had an exceptional season, but as management so delicately put it, a below-average final week.

The last couple of weeks have been downright brutal for Dodger fans. Not only did the team get booted for the second consecutive year by the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League championship series, but now fans are learning about the front-office infighting during the season between owner Frank McCourt and his wife and former Dodger chief ...

In a move that should come as a surprise to nobody, SI.coma TMs Jon Heyman is reporting that Manny Ramirez will exercise his $20 million player option for 2010.

Jamie McCourt on Tuesday filed for divorce from Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and asked a judge to reinstate her as the team's chief executive, signaling what could be a lengthy and nasty fight over the storied baseball franchise.

When you're the manager of the Dodgers, that is very difficult, even when you're thousands of miles from home.

This is a March 17, 2005, file photo showing Mark McGwire testifying on Capitol Hill during a hearing on the use of steroids in professional baseball.

David Waldstein and Ben Shpigel covered Game 4 of the National League championship series from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.

Can Giants fans anticipate a Dodgers collapse next year? The answer might be delivered by divorce lawyers.

Some of the highs and lows of watching Dodgers-Phillies Game 3: Say hey "Beat L.A., beat L.A., beat L.A." That's the first thing you heard as TBS began its coverage.

Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said Friday it's been business as usual running the team despite owner Frank McCourt firing his wife as chief executive officer of the club.

Ex-Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez has slashed the price on his Boston penthouse to $7.9 million after six months on the market failed to attract a buyer, The Boston Herald reported Saturday.

The Dodgers lost in the same place to the same team in the playoffs in 2008 and 2009, but this most recent one stung more for fans and players.

Which reminds me...must renew my search for Captain Barnacle, Diplomat in the back of Psychotronics.

Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said Friday it's been business as usual running the team despite owner Frank McCourt firing his wife as CEO of the club.

Much has been made of Manny Ramirez' location during the National League Championship Series Game Four rally that essentially killed the Los Angeles Dodgers' 2009 season.

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez was showering when Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins hit a double to win Game 4 of the NLCS 5-4 Monday at Dodger Stadium.

Manny Ramirez and Joe Torre got sent home by the Philadelphia Phillies. Again. For the second straight season, the Dodgers swept through the first round of the playoffs only to get eliminated by the Phillies in a five-game National League Championship Series.

A Quakertown family has more than a "man cave;" they've got a Phillies cave, a family temple to Red October.It started last year when Kevin Sica's daughter Amanda, now 16, wanted a red bookcase and struck a deal: she got the bookcase and he got to turn the basement of their home on Clover Mill Road into a Phillies Mecca.

Reporting from Philadelphia - Dodgers third baseman Casey Blake said today that all the fuss over Manny Ramirez's showering before Game 4 had ended was unnecessary, calling the act "really nothing out of the ordinary." Ramirez left the dugout and showered in the ninth inning after Juan Pierre replaced him in left field for defensive purposes.

Ned Colletti signed a multiyear contract extension Tuesday to remain the general manager of the Dodgers -- for how many years, no one would say.

Video that appeared to show New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera spitting on the ball made the Internet rounds Tuesday, with Major League Baseball saying there was no reason to consider any discipline.

Ask a Phillies fan, and there's no comparison as to who has the better fans between their home team and those who follow the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Mitch Williams has watched the replays. He has heard the theories and the invocations of the names Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch.

Carlos Ruiz is getting called a lot of things these days. Unlike in the regular season, they're all positive.

Some of the highs and lows of watching Dodgers-Phillies Game 1: Say hey TBS play-by-play man Chip Caray began with, "As Yogi Berra would say, Deja vu all over again." Because the Dodgers were playing the Phillies, same as last year.

Drop is not a word a catcher would want his name associated with. Or one would think.

A young catcher with the Milwaukee Braves, Joe Torre was in his first full season in the big leagues in 1961 when a veteran left-hander, now in the Hall of Fame, boiled down the art of pitching to him in one sentence.

Someone really needs to talk to Cole Hamels, and soon. "I will talk to him about it, yes," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said before Friday`s Game 2. Manuel said that he didn`t see the lefthander`s latest demonstrative on-field act-up in Thursday night`s Game 1 -- which is what Hamels said he hoped was going to happen everywhere.

Manny Ramirez #99 of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a double in the eighth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game Four of the National League Championship Series during the 2008 MLB playoffs on October 13, 2008 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.

As beautiful as the scene is at Dodger Stadium on a 93-degree Friday in October, the view from the visitors' clubhouse is like that of any cramped, old stadium.

Alex Rodriguez finally makes a few hits in postseason spots and many are ready to forgive Mr.

Although the Dodgers won only two more games than the Phillies in the regular season, there is no doubt that they were the class of this yeara TMs National League.

This is starting to become repetitive, but it's about Manny Ramirez , so we'll write it again.

Quick recap: Minus Manny Ramirez, the Dodgers rallied to take the final game, 5-3, in 10 innings after the Phillies had tied the game in the bottom of the ninth.

The Dodgers' starting rotation could have a new look to it in the National League Championship Series.

Many of the key players remain the same: Manny Ramirez still anchors the middle of the Dodgers lineup.

I didn't comment here at Dodger Thoughts on Steve Lopez's strangely timed attack on Manny Ramirez in The Times earlier this month because, well, I was just pretty tired of conflict.

Angels, Dodgers excited by prospect of Freeway Series Los Angeles is abuzz with the thought of its two area baseball teams meeting in the Fall Classic later this month LOS ANGELES - Published on Tuesday, Oct.

The New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers have a lot in common. Each has a fan base of little or no merit: witness LA's failure to sell out its Game Two NLDS win over St.

It might hit the Phillies sometime today that they are about to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS beginning Thursday.

The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday afternoon at Busch Stadium.

The difference between the Dodgers team that faltered in the National League Championship Series in 2008 and the one that returns in 2009 could be summed up in one word: Maturity.

John Smoltz added to his playoff legacy Saturday night, if the Cardinals did not.

The Los Angeles Dodgers pitched their way to a 3-0 sweep over the St. Louis Cardinals, and somebody decided to wake up Manny Ramirez for the final game.

Andre Ethier was so good in clutch situations during the regular season it only makes sense he got himself locked in during the National League Division Series.

Vicente Padilla's career was scraping the bottom in August when the Texas Rangers told the temperamental righthander not to let the door hit him in the rear end on his way out.

Manny Ramirez struck out four times Friday night as the Dodgers dropped their fifth straight, a 4-3 loss to Colorado.

Matt Holliday spent five seasons playing against Albert Pujols, so he knew all about the batting titles, the clutch RBIs.

All eyes will be on Manny Ramirez this series whether he likes it or not, and his recent body of work suggests he won't. The postseason is where Ramirez shines best of all.

The game turned on the glove of the left fielder, and we're not talking about Manny Ramirez.

Cliff Lee took a shutout into the ninth inning as the Phillies opened defense of their World Series title with a 5-1 win over the Rockies in Game One of their NLDS.

Pitching in the playoffs for the first time in his 11-year career, Wolf lasted 3 2-3 innings against Carpenter, who came in with a career 5-1 record and 2.53 ERA in the postseason.

The two men will be forever linked as the offensive catalysts for the 2004 and 2007 Boston Red Sox World Series Championships.

Steve Lopez wants your sermons for Manny. We want your sermons for Lopez. Updated 8:06 AM PDT, Wed, Oct 7, 2009 It's less than 12 hours until the Dodgers face the Cardinals in Game 1 of the National League Division Series .

For five innings, Philly's famous fans sat subdued, chewing on their rally towels, cursing Manny Ramirez.

T he symbolism was too delicious to ignore. While Jason Bay took batting practice before his first playoff game last October against the Los Angeles Angels, Manny Ramirez [ stats ] literally towered over Angel Stadium.

Start with big boppers Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and Ryan Howard.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers manger Tommy Lasorda, right, puts his arm around current manager Joe Torre prior to their baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, Oct.

Vicente Padilla struck out 10 in five innings, and the NL West champion Dodgers finished the regular season with a 5-3 victory over the wild-card Colorado Rockies on Sunday at Dodger Stadium.

Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Manny Ramirez, right, sprays beer into the crowd as they celebrate after winning the National League Western Division title in their Major League Baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Oct.

Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Manny Ramirez, right, sprays beer into the crowd as they celebrate after winning the National League Western Division title in their Major League Baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Saturday, Oct.

"More than ever," insists MLB.com's Barry M. Bloom , "the Dodgers need some continuity and G.M. Ned Colletti will provide them that if he's given a long-term deal." Thus, along with eulogizing Mary Travers and quoting Bob Dylan's "Blownin' In The Wind" in its entirety, Bloom argues LA's third post-season appearance in 4 seasons demands a contract ...

In 1964 the Philadelphia Phillies, under manager Gene Mauch, were having their best season in nearly 15 years.

The Associated Press 10:23 p.m. September 30, 2009 Los Angeles Dodgers' Manny Ramirez sends his bat flying after striking out to end the sixth inning with a runner on base in the Dodgers' baseball game against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, Sept.