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If someone took Manny they probably wouldn't have done the A-rod deal. Manny was the deal for A-rod, if someone claimed Manny, that would have freed around 20-25mil, they probably would have made a run at Vlad and/or Tejada and w/ Tejada traded nomar to the White Sox for Ordonez (which was the nomar trade rumor that nomar suposidly got pissy about).
Even w/o the possible deal, I think Nomar still wanted out, he doesn't like the big time media... but see theres a problem he doesn't get... to make 15mil a year you need to play for a big market team, which means big market media!
He actually called a radio station from his honeymoon to say "I never said I didn't want to play here" and they asked him questions like "If they got A-rod, would you be willing to play 2nd" and he'd respond "I really can't speak on that because no one from the Red Sox has told me what's going on" it was a total PR crap phone call, his agent made him do it, and he lost a lot of respect around here, question after question and he'd respond "I really can't speak on that because no one from the Red Sox has told me what's going on" then to top it off, he said he hadn't gotten any contract offers, then it comes out the sox offered him somewhere around 12-13/yr over 4yrs and he turned it down, which made him look like a bigger ass.
Then he comes back from his injury and plays in the minors and then slumps in the majors and yells at the press "I shouldn't be here yet, I should still be rehab the injury but I rushed it because the fans thought I was faking" or something close to that.
He wasn't staying here... We got 2 gold glovers which we desprately needed.
As for how the Sox treat players, that was the old Regime, this one has been pretty good to it's players, but still not afraid to make cold business decisions.
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