Breaking point might be near

0 Comments | USA TODAY, July, 2008 | by Reid Cherner

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What should Red Sox do with Manny?

Some marriages burn bright and then crash spectacularly.

Then all that is left is to pick up the pieces and hope the kids weren't too damaged by the shipwreck ending.

The Boston Red Sox and Manny Ramirez appear to be in that Titanic stage.

Ramirez will do or say something outrageous -- like a sit-down strike or saying whether the Red Sox win in the playoffs is unimportant -- and then go out, like Monday night, and crack a home run with three RBI.

Boston management shrugs its shoulders and allows "Manny to be Manny."

But the Red Sox may be weary of his act and his $20million salary. Ramirez is not extending any olive branches.

He told reporters...