Congratulations Manny Ramirez on 500 Home Runs

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500 Reasons to Love Manny Ramirez
Published 6/1/2008 by Sooze (noreply@blogger.com) at Babes Love Baseball
... Manny Ramirez as the first player to reach their respective milestone in a recent poll of ours, congratulations. Congrats also goes out to Manny, who accomplished a feat that only 23 others have, smoking career homer #500 on the first pitch he saw from former teammate Chad Bradford in the seventh inning, sending it sailing into the right-center field seats. As a bonus, it gave the Red Sox a 5-3 lead over the Baltimore Orioles. SOX & Dawgs has the video! [Sports of Boston] | [Around the ...

Video: Manny Ramirez hits 500
Published 6/1/2008 by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
Would it have been nice for Manny Ramirez to hit his 500th career home run at Fenway Park? Sure. Would it have been nice for him to wait a day and do it tomorrow, when I'm at Camden Yards? Uh, yup. Can't have anything but congratulations for Manny about this , though: As a Sox fan, you can't help but love the reaction in the stands where the ball landed. May as well have been Fenway with the number of Sox fans out there.

Yardwork: 599 Is Worth The Headline
Published 6/1/2008 by Cousins of Ron Mexico at The Big Lead
... Red Sox 6, Orioles 3: Manny hit number 500. Congrats Manny. You weirdo, you. ...

Chad Bradford Hopes His Moment In The Spotlight Is Just About Over
Published 6/1/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Over an 11 year big league career, sidearm reliever Chad Bradford has fashioned a respectable resume, enough to the point where the Orioles might consider dealing him to a contender as the trade deadline looms closer. That said, Bradford walked the thin line between professional pride and what Billy Wagner might call “a lack of accountability” (though perhaps not those exact words) when bailing on the inevitable media scrum that followed his serving up career HR no. 500 to Manny Ramirez. From ...