Manny Ramirez’s new role: the exorcist

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They traded Pedro Martinez? Sorry, don’t remember. Piazza too? I’m thinking ... Mike who?

Fox, Peter Chernin, the new sheriff in town. Kevin Brown, Darren Dreifort, Gary Sheffield, the GM who was the computer nerd, DePo or Repo something? Nope, don’t recall.

You see, for most Dodger fans who’ve wanted only one thing, for their team to matter again, what Manny Ramirez, Joe Torre and the Dodgers have done in one short week is to sweep away 20 years of frustration, failure and abject mismanagement.

In putting a stop to the green vomit and terribly inappropriate curse words, Father Merrin didn’t do to Linda Blair what Ramirez and his merry band of kids just did to the most miserable chapter in Dodger history.

This Dodger team hasn’t just wiped away those bad memories, it exorcised them.

With the Dodgers winning their first playoff series in two long decades, now heading to Philly for the National League Championship Series, all is forgiven.

And for that alone, Manny must come back. I would say that, given their track record, the Dodgers will screw up his re-signing, too, but I just remembered the point of this blog.

That track record is now expunged.

-- Ted Green

Ted Green is senior sports producer for KTLA Prime News and and a former sportswriter for the L.A. Times and National Sports Daily.