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09-26-2008, 05:00 PM
It was all celebration in the Dodgers clubhouse as the reality sunk in. The Dodgers is heading to the postseason by eliminating The Arizona Diamondbacks. "We ought to save a little," said one player. "There's a few more rounds to go," said Dominican Manny Ramirez, the man who made the difference since he was recruited from the Boston Red Sox at seeing his classmates bathe in champagne.
MLB writer Ken Gumick points out that all the joviality was a far cry from before Manny days, when the expensive signings of Andruw Jones and Hiroki Kuroda didn't work out. He writes: "At the end of the regular season, general manager Ned Colletti, with all indications that his job was on the line, first closed the black hole at third base by acquiring Casey Blake, then trumped every trade the Dodgers have ever made by landing Ramirez. Instantly, a stumbling offense became a consistent run machine and a dour clubhouse was transformed into Manny's Disco, with Ramirez and his merengue tunes bouncing off the walls and energizing even those teammates who hated the music".
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MLB writer Ken Gumick points out that all the joviality was a far cry from before Manny days, when the expensive signings of Andruw Jones and Hiroki Kuroda didn't work out. He writes: "At the end of the regular season, general manager Ned Colletti, with all indications that his job was on the line, first closed the black hole at third base by acquiring Casey Blake, then trumped every trade the Dodgers have ever made by landing Ramirez. Instantly, a stumbling offense became a consistent run machine and a dour clubhouse was transformed into Manny's Disco, with Ramirez and his merengue tunes bouncing off the walls and energizing even those teammates who hated the music".
See http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080925... (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080925&content_id=3546692&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#15)