Has Boston Had Enough Of Man-Ram?

Have Red Sox fans had enough of Manny Ramirez's antics yet? Last night Ramirez missed his 22nd out of 30 games since he removed himself from the August 21st slaughter against the Yankees.

In 2011, when Manny Ramírez will be 39 years old, he will start to receive the first installment in 16 years of deferred payments. The checks that year will total slightly less than $2 million, and by the year 2026, when Ramírez will be 54 and the checks are scheduled to amount to $2.043 million, Ramírez will have collected close to $32 million in deferred payments, or twice the current payroll of the Florida Marlins.

Do you suppose that 20 years from now, Ramírez will feel even the slightest bit of remorse for the way he quit on his Red Sox teammates in 2006, refusing to honor the code that is an article of faith for Jason Varitek and Mike Lowell, Curt Schilling and Coco Crisp, Trot Nixon and Alex Gonzalez, and Mark Loretta -- even the now-departed fat man, David Wells -- that you do all within your power to play hurt.

The Red Sox have tried to move Ramírez before, with owner John W. Henry perhaps the management figure most reluctant to cut ties with the slugger. The Sox are not talking publicly about this.

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