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August 8, 2007
J.D. Drew, who will start tonight's game in center field in place of Coco Crisp, was at first diplomatic last night when asked about what will be his first time playing alongside Manny Ramirez: "It will be an opportunity for me to see Manny doing what he does best." But, as Sean McAdam reported, he also had a warning, just in case Manny tries to cut Drew off, as he did to the weak-throwing Johnny Damon a few years back: "If he does that with me, there's going to be trouble because I throw the ball a lot harder than Johnny."
As for the question of communicating with Ramirez in the field, here's what Drew said, according to the Hartford Courant: "I think Manny's [motto] is, 'Leave it up to you to catch it if you can.' "
The good news from last night: Manny helped the Red Sox score a run when he ran hard down the first-base line on a one-out grounder, making a double play impossible and allowing Dustin Pedroia to come in from third.
The bad news from last night: Manny missed another cutoff man as a run scored for the Angels.
Ramirez is one of several current and former Red Sox players who will appear in the coming movie Reservation Road, which stars Mark Ruffalo as a Red Sox fan who runs over a child while returning from a game during the 2004 season (sounds like quite a downer). The movie also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino.
Orange County Register columnist Jeff Miller, in gloating over the Angels' two wins, describes the Red Sox this way: "They're Coco and Wily Mo and Julio and Lugo. They're Manny Ramirez's dreadlocks and Terry Francona's deadlocks."
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