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Manny Ramirez joins Taiwanese team at spectacular press conference. Former Indians and Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez signed with the EDA Rhinos of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League for $25,000 a month. The club introduced Ramirez in a spectacular press conference featuring what appears to be a giant HD screen showing a photo of Ramirez, active fountains, and, of course, Manny Ramirez himself. It's worth a look.

Ramirez told the Taiwanese media that he's "always wanted to play in Asia."

For practically any other 40-year-old former star, that would certainly sound like pathetic nonsense used to justify an odd career turn prompted by his inability to walk away from the game. For Manny it could be that too. But with Manny, there always exists the possibility that playing in the scandal-ridden four-team league represents an opportunity to "be Manny" even more so than he ever has before. For all we know, Ramirez became fast friends with John Halama in the latter's brief 2005 stint with the Red Sox and Halama, one of the most notable former Major Leaguers to play in Taiwan, sung the circuit's praises.

Or maybe, and far more depressingly, no team in the U.S. or Japan or Mexico or Korea wanted Ramirez at this stage of his career enough to pony up $25,000 a month for his services. And though Ramirez's last few years in the majors were wrought with PED suspensions and controversy, he may look like a bastion of integrity in a league where players have been somewhat regularly arrested and/or abducted for their roles in game-fixing scandals.