Baseball's greatest moment this October would be Manny Ramirez playing in the World Series as a Dodger in Fenway Park. It couldn’t get any better than that. The Manny-Red Sox Nation dynamic would be juicy and riveting to watch. And it could happen. On Aug. 1, this possibility seemed ludicrous. Today, it's real. It’s hard to look at the National League Championship Series without seeing the Dodgers as slight favorites over the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Boston Red Sox's experience gives them an even slimmer edge on the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Championship Series. Ramirez, traded in late July from the Red Sox to the Dodgers, could be headed for two World Series shares. It's a question he posed recently to the L.A. Times, just another instance of Manny being Manny. And how are the Dodgers, a .500 team for much...
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