Trot Nixon was asked if it would bother him for a teammate to not want to play in Boston and replied, "That's totally Manny's opinion. It can't be mine. What this story ends up doing is it becomes us attacking Manny, and I am not going to do that." Jason Varitek, like Nixon, also pleaded ignorance to the story that appeared in Saturday's Boston Globe. "I honestly don't know enough about it to honestly answer that right now," Varitek said. "That's going to be obviously a management issue if that's the true case. I don't know what's going on."