A-ROD IN REVIEW: Gordon Edes in the Boston Globe has a nifty chronology of the entire Rodriguez/Ramirez non-trade. The best line is from an anonymous Sox source close to the negotiations, when asked whether or not the deal truly is dead:
Dead? I think it's more accurate to say it's in a coma," the official said. "How dead was Glenn Close when she was at the bottom of that bathtub in `Fatal Attraction'?