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Well wow.

McCourt says:

“We love Manny Ramirez,” said Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt, “And we want Manny back, but we feel we are negotiating against ourselves. When his agent finds those ‘serious offers’ from other clubs, we’ll be happy to re-start the negotiations.

“Even with an economy that has substantially eroded since last November, out of respect for Manny and his talents, we actually improved our offer.

“So now, we start from scratch.”

Spring training games have already started, March is two days away, and Manny is turning down an offer for 1 year $25m with a player option for a second year at $20m. Now I could just chalk this up to Manny and Boras playing chicken with the Dodgers, but I really wonder if something is up.

Buster Olney recently said that many teams were staying away from Manny based on his behavior temper-tantrum before being traded from Boston.

ESPN is reporting that the offer was for $10m in 2009 and $10m in 2010 and $25m deferred. I’m still not convinced that the Yankees are out of it either - regardless of what Cashman may say. (He did say the same thing about Teixeira.)

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