Sprint Does It…AGAIN???, And Manny Ramirez Euphoria
Sunburns are bad.
They’re really bad when they prevent you from sleeping.
Time to apply some more sunburn lotion.
(AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!)
No quick-hitters tonight.
- I got an email last night from Sprint.com, telling me that my next billing statement was ready to be viewed. I said to myself, “Oh great. I get to call Sprint CS again to get my 10% credit manually added to my account!”
That’s when I saw this:
Total Due by August 20 $31.77
OMG. Sprint added the 10% discount to my account AUTOMAGICALLY??? Whoa!
EDIT: WTF? Just a few minutes ago, I logged on to my Sprint.com account, and saw this:
Last Bill Amount $527.01
Adjustments/Credits $0.00
Recent Payments -$118.00
Total Due $409.01
Pay By August 18
Completely horrified, I clicked on “View latest bill,” and saw the correct amount due: $31.77. I then logged on to My Account through my cell phone, and saw that I owe $536.41, due on August 5!
Sprint’s customer call centers are closed right now, but you better believe that I am going to call them first thing tomorrow morning afternoon.
I love you, Sprint.
(Now, I’m just going to assume that this is an obvious error on Sprint’s end. However, we are talking about Sprint here…)
- Manny Ramirez is a Dodger, and the dividends are already coming in!
(Granted, one of his hits was a check-swing grounder, but still.)
The last time I saw a Dodger crowd THAT energized, we had another future Hall of Famer playing on our team: some guy named Mike Piazza. Geez, did you hear how loud the crowd got when Ramirez made a catch on a routine fly ball? And how about when he got his first hit, nearly taking out D’Backs’ SS Stephen Drew in the process?
I heard that the Dodgers sold somewhere around 10,000 extra tickets for the remaining games against the D’Backs once it was official that the Dodgers traded for Manny. Is anyone surprised by that? Did Frank McCourt not realized that trading for a big name was going to increase ticket sales?
(Sigh…what if the Dodgers had traded for C.C. Sabathia???)
As for the deal itself, I absolutely loved it. When the rumors about Manny coming to LA first circled about, I heard Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp’s names. Had the Dodgers dealt Matt Kemp, I (and a number of Dodger fans, I would imagine) would have been royally pissed. At first, I was sorta OK with giving up Ethier for Manny, but then it quickly became evident that another prospects—LaRoche?—would have been involved in the deal.
Naturally, when I found out that LaRoche was the only key prospect involved, I was filled with glee. Andy LaRoche had virtually zero trade value, thanks to the Dodgers’ terrible mismanagement of his career to date as well as the “emergence” of Blake DeWitt. To flip him and an inconsequential minor league pitcher for two months of a future HOFer, as well as at least one compensatory draft pick, AND the rest of Ramirez’ salary, one has to give some props to Colletti.
(On the other hand, one could argue that Boston REALLY wanted to get rid of Ramirez. I mean, they had to pay the Dodgers to take him, AND trade two of their own prospects, all to get a downgrade in Jason Bay?)
Dodger fans have to be elated by the fact that we know we’ll get two months of the maximum effort Manny; after all, he’s basically playing for one more huge contract. That’s just even more reason to be giddy.
Does Manny guarantee a Dodgers’ NL West victory? Not if they keep scoring one run against Arizona. However, you better believe that I am going to thoroughly enjoy every AB Manny has from here on to the end of the season.
I feel like a kid in a candy store…on Christmas.
