The greatest moment baseball could experience this October would be Manny Ramirez playing in the World Series as a Dodger in Fenway Park. It just couldn’t get any better than that. The Manny- Red Sox Nation dynamic would be a juicy and riveting watch. And it indeed could happen. On Aug. 1, the thought of this possibility was ludicrous. On Oct. 8, it is real. It’s hard to look at the NLCS without seeing the Dodgers as slight favorites and the Red Sox experience should give them a slimmer edge on Tampa Bay in the ALCS.So is Manny, who was traded in late July from the Red Sox to the Dodgers, headed for two World Series shares – a question he posed recently to the L.A. Times? That query just another instance of Manny being Manny. And how are the Dodgers, a .500 team for much of the regular season, in this position? Is it Manny...
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