" The Ken Rosenthal of foxsports.com. It spoke of the general manager today who compared Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers. To prisoners facing life sentences that were forced to room with each other. Basically they had nowhere else to go this union had to take place. We'll look at it looking back now you see that what the GM saying if that's true. There was -- the market for Manny Ramirez but Los Angeles Dodgers. Whether the Giants were truly interested or not they did not really ever entered these negotiations seriously. If they had we would have thought about it because the deal -- ultimately received. Is not something that most people thought it would have been exorbitant at the start of the off season. From the doctor's perspective well we saw one free agent hitter after another goal off the board. They could have perhaps for the combination of Adam Dunn and Orlando bought it and a lot of back together or -- a picture because of them as a number of different ways. They wanted Manny Ramirez all that you bring it offensively. -- appeal for everything -- the franchise. So in the end the to prove it looked at each other and agreed to make peace it remains to be seen of course whether both parties will be satisfied. That the story for another day."