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5 Reasons Manny Ramirez Will Be Happier In L.A.

As you may have heard Manny Ramirez, the All-Star home run hitter and fan of the good life, was traded to the Dodgers last week, ending one of the longest, he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not relationships baseball has ever seen.

Although Boston management may have been happy to see Manny go, there’s no doubt that Sox fans are going to miss their resident quote-monster/hilarious-but-not-on-purpose power hitter. Manny’s gotta be psyched about his recent relocation, given all the fun shit he’ll have at his fingertips while playing in the City Of Angels…

Pauley The Plant Guy’s Baseball Predictions

Sure, he keeps our plants soiled and looking healthy, but Pauley is also our resident sports expert around the Complex offices. As ‘Plex’s horticulturalist, Levine has long been known to drop insightful gems about sports and has solidified himself as our go-to when we’re looking for answers concerning our favorite squads. In his debut episode, the watering-can toting superstar gives fans his outlook on New York baseball, including Giambi’s mini-mustache. Watch the video after the jump.

Liveboard Shows Baseball Scores As They Happen

Scenario: the big game is on, but your girlfriend’s parents are coming over for dinner. They already think you’re a rude, unemployed, beer-guzzling loser, so turning on the TV (or looking at your Blackberry) every 2 minutes to see how many men are on base is not really an option. For those unfortunate sports-free times, the Liveboard could be the best way to covertly keep up on your baseball scores.

This $199 gadget uses Bluetooth to wirelessly connect to the internet, where it downloads the game’s stats and displays them on the scoreboard. You can set it to 3 different modes: “Basic mode” follows only the score of one team’s games, “full mode” displays the current game when your team of choice isn’t playing, and “cycle mode” rotates through all the teams. The best part is that this discrete little guy can sit on your bookshelf next to your picture frames without your company realizing that you’re ignoring everything they say. Buy one at their website, and see a few more pictures after the jump.

Red Sox Girls Get Sexy For New Site

Sexysoxgirls.com is a new site that compiles Beantown’s (supposedly) hottest female Red Sox fans. The website features over 12 pages (the level of hotness steadily decreases as the pages go down) of sexed-up lookers draped from head-to-toe in BoSox gear, all who’s attractiveness they ask you to rate on the 5-sock scale. Now, we tend to avoid the whole Boston/New York rivalry, but we have to admit, Yankees ladies are catching L’s in the digital representation department. Did someone say Yankeeskanks.com? Cop the domain and get those submissions flowing. Close up shots showing more of Boston’s finest after the jump.

MLB Kind Of Kicks Off 162-Game Death March

Only Major League Baseball could drag Opening Day out over the course of a full week. Today the season kinda, sorta kicks off on American soil at 1 p.m. and you can watch all 14 games live on MLB.com. Technically the season started a few days ago with exhibition games in Japan. And then there was last night’s home opener for the Nationals. Washington notched their first W at their new park, beating the Braves 3-2, in a game absolutely no one watched due to some basketball tournament. If your bracket is completely effed, and it is, you can still enter a little basketball tourney we have running. We’ll check back in with MLB when the Pennant race starts to come into vague focus around mid-July.

Hats Off

DC and New Era’s baseball-themed, limited-edition, totally sick 20/94 sneaker and hat collabo was begging for a launch party, and the companies didn’t disappoint. Complex was there Saturday night in a NYC gallery space, where skateboarders and the incurably stylish partied to the sounds of the Heavy Hitters. Eventually, a half-pipe was unveiled, and skaters provided additional entertainment for the packed crowd, most of whom received special invites printed on skate decks—with the DC’s and New Era’s histories spelled out on the board.

We’ll leave the skating to the pros and keep our deck for decorative purposes. Thanks.

Perfect Game

Baseball season’s heating up for a playoff run, and DC Shoes and New Era are getting in on the action with the 20/94 pack. 20/94 pays homage to the founding years of the companies: 1920 (New Era) and 1994 (DC). The baseball stitching and pinstripe motifs on the sneaker/fitted cap hook-up elevate average players to all-star status. The pack drops this Saturday September 16th at select boutiques like Atmos, and Supreme. Stay tuned to photos from the 2094 party.