Mr. Cashman, please do not be fooled with the pitching staff that is currently assembled. Sir Sidney will not be the answer the second half of the year. In his last 11 starts he has allowed 39 runs, 90 hits, on 24 bb. The run support has been there for him, will that continue?

Please Bring up Ian Kennedy, Chase Wright or Alfredo Aceves give them an opportunity.

By Frank Solares

I was listening to radio station WEEI a Boston sports landmark. The station is unlike any other in the country, the hosts actually let the people get a point across. With no angry puppy hanging up on people left and right WEEI actually lets people participate. Well Francesa is a gentleman, I take a little of that back. You would like the station.

The Manny calls were very interesting, I would say about 70 percent of the fans are sick of his drama. Now the 30 percent that are Sox fans that have common sense, know that Ramirez needs to be on the team for the SOX to have success.

See the problem started eight years ago when they signed him and made him untouchable. During any of his Many being Many moments no one reprimanded him. As long as he was hitting, it was all great and everyone looked the other way.

Now that the team has a 20 million dollar option and Manny is not being Manny at the plate, they are ready to reprimand him.

Now, like the Soap Opera that is taking place in Green Bay (tune into the world wide leader for extended BRAKING NEWS of the same garbage) they know it must be handled with care.

Management including the boy genius GM (Boy genius coincidently had nothing to do with the original Ramirez signing, or any significant trade such as Lowell & Becket) are trying to keep Manny focused on the race and baseball. See the Sox would like to trade him to Japan or somewhere that they now he will not hurt them or the precious Nation image.

Doing all this while keeping Manny happy and pretending that they might pick up his 20 million dollar option, is difficult. Now even a little hint that he will get punished for his actions might keep him in line. All this while attempting to catch the Rays & keeping the Yanks at arms length.

The ideal and dream scenario for Sox would be that Manny just go away, all this with out him hurting them 20 times or more, a year while he is wearing the pinstripes. The Scary scenario is seeing him playing for Tampa or Yanks. Not even the first pick in the draft is worth that.

Now Tito from what I know is a good man, he is most likely tired of the drama. I bet if you ask him he would love to see him off his team. Francona and the rest of the team keep answering Ramirez questions all day. That in it self is not the greatest thing in the world to deal with.

Manny might think twice before he continues being Manny, twenty million is a lot of money to walk away from.