Jonathan Papelbon said what many people have believed to be true about Manny Ramirez since he forced the Red Sox to get rid of him last summer -- Manny was a "cancer" to the team.
It's about time someone called it like it was.
A lot of people questioned how the team could deal Manny when they did, but it was obvious they had no choice and Paps' statements in Esquire magazine back this up.
The Sox had no chance to even make the playoffs had Manny stayed on the club and continued to drag them down with him. It was the classic case of addition by subtraction.
"It just takes one guy to bring an entire team down, and that's exactly what was happening," Papelbon told Esquire. "Once we saw that, we weren't afraid to get rid of him. It's like cancer. That's what he was. Cancer. He had to go. It [stunk], but that was the only scenario that was going to work. That was it for us."
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