Brought Back From The Dead

At 4:20 p.m. on Thursday I was writing this.

Nail Down the Coffin, Put a Fork in Them...

....The Red Sox 2008 season is all done.

It's 4:20 do you know where the trade for Manny Ramirez is? You don't know or can't find it, that's because it was never made. And that my friends (no deadline trade of Manny, or any moves for that matter) is the final nail in the Red Sox season as far as their postseason aspirations are concerned.

At 4:30 p.m. it looks like the text will be re-written to this.

...Brought Back From The Dead...

The Red Sox 2008 season might be headed back on track as the trade that everyone had been waiting all day for, Manny Ramirez to be anywhere but Boston has happened with The Red Sox getting Jason Bay, Ramirez going to the Dodgers and the Pirates getting 4 minor league prospects. If none of the minor leaguers are coming from the Red Sox, then this is a great trade for Boston (as it was the most that they were going to get for Ramirez).

UPDATE 4:50 p.m: Now that I know that two of the four prospects that Pittsburgh is getting is Brandon Moss and Craig Hansen, I don't like the trade. You've given up too much to get Jason Bay. You gave up a Hall-of-Fame outfielder, plus your best minor league OF prospect AND a reliever that throws in the mid 90's, for one player - that's way too much.

I understand the whole addition by subtraction argument, but you go from asking for two players in return for Ramirez to adding two players to the deal to get Ramirez out of here. The Red Sox front office buckled under the pressure of having to get Manny out of town and made a bad deal.