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The Morning According to Us

By Paul Kix

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Manny Ramirez makes his spring training debut today for the Dodgers, and yet Jonathan Papelbon, still with Boston, is still upset. He calls Manny a "cancer." A cancer? Has that phrase, in one fell swoop, officially jumped the shark this week? Here's a career .314 batter who leads the Red Sox to two championships, and is arguably the team's second greatest all-around hitter, behind only Ted Williams. A cancer. We'll see if this curses the Sox. Letting go of one great ballplayer already has. Le ...

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