Manny agrees to 2 year $45 million deal

[charlie and algernon]

After months of back-and-forth negotiations, a meeting Wednesday between Manny Ramirez, his agents and Los Angeles Dodgers management has culminated in a deal for the slugger.

Ramirez and the Dodgers have agreed in principle on a two-year, $45 million contract, pending a physical.

The outfielder, his agents Scott Boras and Mike Fiore, and Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and general manager Ned Colletti met in Los Angeles to finalize the deal.

The deal was struck just three days after another failed attempt to get a deal done -- which grew out of how much money would be deferred -- with a frustrated McCourt telling reporters that any negotiations from that point forward would "start from scratch."

The Dodgers had made three offers to Ramirez this offseason in addition to an offer of salary arbitration. Last weekend, a one-year, $25 million deal was proposed and included a player option for a second year at $20 million.

But $25 million of the Dodgers' offer was to be deferred with no interest, which in reality brought the actual present-day value of the proposal to about $42 million.

When Boras presented a counterproposal for a two-year, $55 million deal, which was soon followed by a two-year, $45 million offer with no deferred money, McCourt said the team took it as a no and a signal that negotiations had "terminated."
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3951246


I can't tell you the HATE I have for Scott Boras. I don't think I can count the number of times he has caused fights between players and teams.
Fuck Boras.

[El Supremo]

1. Groan!

Why the hell can't Manny go back to the American League?

[cboy4]

2. Someone call Manny a mother fucking

Ramirez, who went into the off-season asking for a four-year deal with a vesting option for a fifth year, acknowledged in an interview with The Times on Tuesday that his well-chronicled behavioral issues might have scared away potential suitors.

"It's still Boston," he said. "It's always, 'He's this and he's that.' Move on. I left Boston. Did I quit while winning two World Series in Boston? You think you can hit 500 home runs quitting?

"I know how people treated me in L.A.. And I want to thank them." :rofl:

In a separate interview with The Times last month, Ramirez said he wouldn't let the chippy nature of the talks affect his play on the field.

"That won't happen," he said. "Understand me, I have goals. I know that if I play six more years, I could get my 3,000th hit and, who knows, maybe my 700th home run." :spray:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-manny-ramirez-dodgers5-2009mar05,0,1383316.story


:puke: :puke:

[joeybee12]

3. Hey Dodgers! Get used to last place!

Cuz that's where you're gonna be with this prick dicking you around.

[cboy4]

4. If the Dodgers were a girl, they'd be pregnant now

Escapes economy, accountability

By Ron Borges
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Painful as it may be for Red Sox fans to swallow, here’s the bottom line with Manny Ramirez : In the worst economy America has seen since the Great Depression, he got himself a $5 million raise and the right to walk off the job at the end of the season and become a free agent if the economy improves. If that makes him a loser in negotiations with the Dodgers, where do I sign up?

Sure he didn’t get the $100 million over four years his agent, The Evil One (aka Scott Boras), kept talking about, but what soon-to-be 37-year-old slugger with questionable fielding skills and a bad attitude did? Don’t bother Googling. The answer is no one.

When last season began, Ramirez had a contract with the Red Sox that would have paid him $40 million in its last two years only if the club exercised its option on him. The way things were headed by the time he was shipped off to Los Angeles, that wasn’t likely. Six months later, he has a $45 million deal and is in full control of his fate because he can opt out of the second season, when he’s set to earn $20 million.

If he slumps, the Dodgers have to pay him and if he repeats his second-half performance of last season, when he hit .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBI in 50 games before tearing up the postseason and leading the Dodgers to the National League Championship Series for the first time in 20 years by hitting .520 with four home runs and 10 RBI in eight games, he can put himself back on the market if he wants. :rofl:

:rofl:

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1156364&srvc=sports&position=recent


Here's the clown that bent over a gave Manny what he wanted :rofl:

FUCKED