Speaking with a small group of reporters outside the visitors' clubhouse at Fenway Park after Friday's Red Sox-White Sox game was postponed, Manny Ramirez took the blame for the sour way his tenure in Boston ended two years ago.

"I think everything was my fault," Ramirez said. "But, hey, you've got to be a real man to realize when you do wrong. Hey, it was my fault. I'm already past that stage and I'm happy with my new team."

Ramirez said he spoke with Kevin Youkilis while he was at first base during the Los Angeles Dodgers' series at Fenway Park in June, the first time the slugger had returned to Boston since the Red Sox shipped him to Los Angeles in 2008.

"When I went to first base and saw Youkilis, I said, 'Hey, what happened between you and me, I'm sorry. That's my fault,' " Ramirez said. "It takes a real man just to go and tell a person it was my fault. That's what I did."

Ramirez even said he would have accepted a trade to Boston had the Red Sox been awarded the waiver claim on him last month.

"Let me tell you something -- and you guys are going to freak out," he was quoted as saying. "I called my kid, right, and I told him, 'Daddy's going to Chicago.' And he told me, 'What? You're going to Chicago? What are you going to do up there?' Then he said, 'You're not going to Boston?'

"I would (have) come and see what I could do for (the Red Sox). I did it here in the past and it's in the past. If they claimed me, why would I say no to them?"