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Four years after he was shipped out of Boston in a stunning late July move, former Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra agreed with Manny Ramirez's contention that the Sox have mistreated big-time players before sending them out the door.

Ramirez, you'll recall, publicly accused the Sox of painting him as the bad guy in the media, and said they'd done the same with Nomar and Pedro Martinez.

Here, according to the Los Angeles Times, is what Garciaparra said about that when asked yesterday at Dodger Stadium:

"There's a lot of truth to what he said. I can definitely understand and relate. Maybe he'll be next to me [in an adjacent locker], and we can chat and laugh about it. ... Manny said he didn't want to leave there. I didn't want to leave there. . . . Were we the only ones that have gone through it? There's a track record. I played with Mo [Vaughn]. I played with Roger [Clemens]."

On a lighter note, Bill Plaschke, also writing in the L.A. Times, has this in his column about the Manny acquisition:

Three hours after the trade, Ned Colletti, Dodger general manager, was asked whether he had spoken to Ramirez.
"I left him a message," said Colletti.

Days after the Angels grabbed the national sports spotlight by trading for quiet slugger Mark Teixeira, the Dodgers have thrown a massive counterpunch by acquiring a guy who is part Hollywood and part Dagwood.

 Tags  Boston Red Sox Los Angeles Dodgers Manny Ramirez Nomar Garciaparra

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