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In honor of the biggest baseball trade in quite some time, the End Hits sports desk (which is just myself sitting alone under this poster) brings you the greatest, and only, song ever written about Manny Ramirez.

It’s not the finest work of the usually untouchable Joe Pernice, but when you normally write depressing pop songs about killing yourself, it’s hard to transition over to penning something about a dreadlocked baseball player known for his bizarre behavior.

LISTEN:

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Joe Pernice – “Moonshot, Manny (Pega Luna, Manny)”

End Hits: We don’t have any songs about Jason Bay.

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

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