How serious is Man-Ram with his retirement threat?

[daggerkobe]

So he'd rather retire than make $40M+ for the next 2 seasons.... like the Dodgers have offered?

I guess he can't survive on that what with the gas prices as high as they are.

[MartinBlank]

He can hit, but that can't hide the fact that he is an idiot.

Funny thing though, most of the time--owners are dumber. I am surprised not one of them drank the Manny Kool-Aid and ponied up a 5-year 100 million dollar deal.

They may actually be learning from the Chan Ho Park's of the past.

[Brock Landers]

Barry Sanders retired on top of his game, more athletes should go this route rather than end up like Michael Jordan in a Wizards uni.

[MartinBlank]

But Manny isn't retiring to go out on top....Manny is considering retiring as some sort of punishment to baseball because no one will lock him up for 5 years.

Manny would crawl on his nutsack to any city that offered him a guaranteed 5 years.

[daggerkobe]

I'm surprised no team has offered at least 3 yr/70M.....

Yeah, he'll be 37 on opening day but who would you rather have... a guy who hits .300 during reg & postseason and carries teams to championships or some overpaid douchebag like A-fRod who bats .078 with 1 RBI in his last 100+ post season at-bats.

[jjgold]

no one cares about these tacos

[MartinBlank]

Dagger, exactly. For as crazy as he is, and he is a loony....Manny can hit. He is a going to produce no matter where he is.

And the really surprising thing is teams have spent on arseholes before. I don't want to say this is collusion from the owners, but I do think they are worried Manny will blow up before 3 years pass.