If Manny had just kept his goddamned mouth shut, I could have lived with the fact that he basically matched his home run and RBI output (17 HR and 53 RBI in LA, 20 HR and 68 RBI in Boston) and batted almost 100 points higher in LA than in Boston, but no. He had to go running his mouth again and decided to spout off again about how much he hated playing for the Red Sox, a place he numerously claimed to love and enjoy over his years here. My how times have changed; let's take a look at what worthless crap he's spewing now:

The first time I stepped foot in Boston, I said to myself, 'Whoa.' I told Pedro Martinez, 'Damn, man, I just want to get traded and get out of here; this place is not me.'
I guess Manny thought this place "was him" when the Sox guaranteed him $160 million over eight years. Funny how he REALLY only became discontent when the well was running dry and he wasn't sure the Sox wanted to keep him around for another couple of years.

I was unhappy for eight years in Boston but still put up great numbers.
He did put up great numbers, I'll give him that. Although Manny could have put up even better numbers if he wasn't intentionally tanking it, or pulling himself out of games, or doing any of the numerous other things he did that affected his play.

I would bring my kids to the park [in Boston] and I want my kids to be kids, but there'd be people trying to interview them. That's so stupid.  
Being in the sports media industry myself, I can fairly confidently predict that Manny's kids were never very popular interview subjects. Six to ten year olds typically don't make for very interesting features.

Baseball in Boston is like a Sunday football game, but played every day. We lose in LA, I go to breakfast and people say, 'Well, you'll get them tomorrow.' In Boston, it's 'Hey, what's going on, the Yankees are coming.'
How could athletes not absolutely love playing in an atmosphere that's like a huge football game every Sunday? Isn't that basically an ideal situation? Would you rather play in front of Tampa's fans, who barely show up to games in spite of the fact that their team was chasing its first pennant in team history, or Boston's fans, who wait for 90 minutes in the pouring rain to watch a meaningless Sox-Yanks game after they'd already clinched the Wild Card? And I don't know about Manny's potential employers next year, but the fact that he seems content with the "It's alright, we'll go out there and get them tomorrow" strategy as opposed to the "I want to win every time out" strategy is a bit disconcerting to me.

It's just a different atmosphere. The fans in Boston got your back no matter what, but I'm talking about the people who write all this bull because it means so much to them. If your happiness depends on Boston winning or losing, you have to get a life.
It is a different atmosphere here, and that's the reason why players go their whole careers wishing to experience something like it. And actually, we don't all have your back no matter what. Manny's burned so many bridges on his  way out of town that I'm positive that everyone is rooting for him to fail in the postseason regardless of whether the Sox or Dodgers are even in it long enough for a possible Manny vs. Red Sox showdown. Even while he was here, all the Manny being Manny moments were starting to add up and become a significant distraction toward the end of his stay. Oh, and in regards to that "get a life" line? If you don't have a friend or relative whose sanity you've questioned because they overreacted to a Sox loss or victory (or you weren't the one doing the overreacting yourself), you're likely not a true Sox fan.