Twenty-four hours after he dismissed a second offer from the Los
Angeles Dodgers on behalf of client Manny Ramirez, this one for $25
million for a season, Scott Boras insisted Ramirez's market is healthy
and warned the Dodgers about believing otherwise.

As if on cue, a San Francisco Giants official said in a radio
interview Tuesday night his club is "going to stay engaged [in the
Manny proceedings] and see what happens."

Thus far, "stay engaged" has not translated to "step up and make an
offer," but the Giants don't appear to be going away. Whether their
interest is true or serving to wring a few more quarters out of
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is undetermined.

"Manny is doing fine," Boras said while awaiting a flight back to
Southern California from New York, where he attended the press
conference announcing pitcher Oliver Perez's new contract with the Mets.

Asked if he still believed Ramirez would have a contract by the start
of spring training, Boras said, "I don't really think about a
timetable. Anything can be done any day. You just don't know."

Then, seemingly calling out the Dodgers on their 48-hour deadline to
accept or reject their $25 million, which he rejected within minutes,
Boras added, "What I do know, you better watch out when you're playing
chicken."

Earlier, Giants player personnel director Bobby Evans told XM Radio,
"You can't deny interest if there's an opportunity to bring him to the
Giants. … We're going to monitor the market on him. It doesn't seem to
be going down, although he did turn down this offer.

"Again, ultimately I don't know which way it will go, but we're going
to stay engaged and see what happens."

Source: Tim Brown, Yahoo! Sports