Choose Your Own Adventure: Manny Being Choosey in Free Agency

With a nod to the classic "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, MLB FanHouse dares to delve into the mysterious and potentially frightening mind of Manny Ramirez as he and agent Scott Boras look for a new contract. Of course, with those two, nothing is ever as easy as it seems, so choose wisely. Ramirez's fate, and potentially the world's, is in your hands.

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BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP!

"What? No! No! I don wan play spies!" you mutter to yourself. It's 2 PM. Why is your alarm clock going off already?

BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP!

Oh. Right. It's your phone. Boras made you change your voicemail alert from "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood three weeks ago. You dial in to your voicemail.

"Manny. It's Scott. It's time to choose. The Dodgers have actually offered you a trillion dollars, and the Yankees are planning on bidding up. You must choose a new team before these morons realize that they don't have this much money."

Sigh.

You aren't sure about this. You've had a great career, but people just don't understand you. Sometimes it's just too much. Maybe you shouldn't hit free agency at all. Maybe it's time to walk the earth. You know -- walk the earth, meet people, get into adventures. Just like Caine in Kung Fu.

What are you going to do?

I want to keep playing baseball. It's time for free agency.

... or ...

I've had enough. It's time for me to move on.