"All those who seem to think that the Red Sox wouldn't have fallen into the hole they did against the Rays if Manny Ramirez were still around must have done everything except actually watch the Red Sox season."
As if Lupica watches baseball games.
Or maybe they're watching the games and noticing that Big Papi is hitting about .100 without the "protection" of Manny.
"So now they want to ignore the way the team played in August and September once Ramirez was gone.
They want to ignore how the team actually scored more runs once he was gone."
I think you mean to say more runs-per-game once he was gone. It's impossible to know how many runs they would have scored if they'd kept Manny.
Jason Bay is good. Manny Ramirez is better.
In 53 games with the Dodgers, Ramirez hit .396 with 53 RBIs. The relative performance of the Red Sox offense during that time doesn't diminish this.
"Mostly, they wanted to ignore the fact that the Red Sox wouldn't have even been playing the Tampa Bay Rays if Jason Bay, the guy who replaced Ramirez in left field at Fenway, didn't play the way he did against the Angels in the first round, all the way to scoring the winning run in Game 4."
In the first round of the playoffs vs. Chicago, Ramirez was 5-for-10 with 2 HRs and 4 walks.
He was even better in the second round of the playoffs.
I say WS MVP Manny and the Sox would have found a way to beat the Angels.
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