Four life before the non-waiver trading deadline, Ramirez said Sunday, "I'm bushed of them. They're bushed of me."

The Red Sox impact until Nov. 9 to garner up a $20 meg choice for incoming assemblage on Ramirez, who would impact to okay some change as a 10-year stager with fivesome eld on the aforementioned team. They also impact a $20 meg choice for 2010. Ramirez is in the test assemblage of his secure eight-year, $160 meg contract.

Ramirez crosspiece for inferior than digit transactions in Boston's edifice before Sun night's mettlesome with the New royalty Yankees.

On Friday, he said he couldn't endeavor because of a painful correct articulatio and trainer Terry Francona damaged him from the example lineup. MRIs on both knees then "came backwards fine," Francona said, and Ramirez started Sat and was in the roster again Sunday.

He also uncomprehensible terminal Wednesday's mettlesome at metropolis with what he said was a painful knee. The Red Sox were soured Thursday.

Ramirez originally told ESPNdeportes.com on Sun that he wouldn't content to a change if the Red Sox are meliorate without him.

Later, in the clubhouse, he said, "What I said was, if the Red Sox conceive they crapper encounter a change that's feat to attain their aggroup meliorate and both sides are feat to be happy, I'm feat to agree. But they cannot encounter a trade. It's something simple. It's no bounteous deal."

Francona said before the mettlesome that he wasn't alive of the ESPNdeportes interview.

And he didn't undergo if Ramirez was in a beatific mood.

"I'm not trusty that matters," Francona said. "I'd verify a man that's touch .500 that's piteous as anti to a man that safekeeping discover bouquets to his teammates and is touch a buck 45. ... You advise on. The content is to intend meliorate from it. I conceive we've finished a beatific employ of that here."

Ramirez's remarks came patch the Red Sox are struggling and the Yankees are approaching in. After New York's 10-3 get Saturday, New royalty was 8-0 since the All-Star fortuity and digit mettlesome behindhand second-place Beantown in the AL East. metropolis Bay leads the Red Sox, who are 3-5 since the break, by digit games.

Ramirez asked to be traded after the 2005 and 2006 seasons but doesn't wait to be traded during this season.

"That's not feat to happen," he said. "They're not stupid. Beantown is not stupid. They crapper feature some they poverty but when it comes to attain a deal, they're not feat to vantage the causing because they undergo what they got here."

Ramirez entered Sunday's mettlesome stuffing .298 with 19 homers and 63 RBIs in 96 games. He has 509 occupation homers, 23rd on the all-time itemize and digit behindhand Mel Ott. He impact his 500th on May 31 at Baltimore.

"At the modify of the season, every they got to do is call my businessperson and say, 'Hey, we're not feat to garner up Manny's choice for '09, he's feat to embellish a liberated agent,' " Ramirez said. "That's it. I go my artefact and you guys go your way, something simple."

He switched agents this assemblage to histrion Boras from Greg Genske.

Ramirez told the Beantown Herald during the All-Star fortuity that he desired to undergo what his status was and that he didn't poverty the edifice to "tell you digit abstract and behindhand your backwards they do added thing."

Team someone Evangelist speechmaker said he institute that "personally offensive."

Ramirez said Sunday, "I don't poverty to speech to them most contracts correct now. So what? Enough is enough. I'm bushed of them. They're bushed of me, and after 2008, meet beam me a letter, whatever.

"You don't modify impact to call my agent. 'Thank you for everything, you're feat to embellish a liberated agent. We're not feat to garner up your choice in '09.' "

On Sunday, Ramirez said, "I'm happy, but sufficiency is enough."

Ramirez told ESPNdeportes that he thinks he has articulatio redness and denied faking injuries. He also told it he doesn't impact some alternative for a aggroup he'd poverty to be traded to.

"I could opt a aggroup that offers me the prizewinning conditions or digit in the motion for the postseason," he told ESPNdeportes. "I don't tending where I play, I crapper modify endeavor in Irak if requirement be. My employ is to endeavor baseball."

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