What exactly did MAnny  ramirez do last night that has everyone talking?
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Manny swung the bat, dropped the bat, and stared at the ball until it left the park. Then he slowly trotted around the bases. The media loves to make these stories much more than they actually are. Just the night before, A-Rod hit a monster shot of his own, but turned behind him, thinking he fouled it back.\nManny's certainly aware of the controversy, though. About an hour ago, he hit another homerun over the monster but ran out of the box as fast as he could.
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It honestly did seem like it was an accident. He was throwing sliders inside and you tend to accidentally hit people with those. Like the announcer said, if you are going to bean a guy on purpose, you throw a 4-seam fastball. Springer obviously didn't have his best stuff tonight.\n\nUnless he's really tricky and just wanted to *make* it look like an acciedent.
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Mark Loretta\nHanley Ramirez
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[AP Wire]\n\nSAN DIEGO -- Jose Canseco returned to baseball Thursday when he agreed to a contract with the independent San Diego Surf Dawgs, planning to be their designated hitter and -- get this -- pitch.\n\nThe Golden Baseball League announced the deal Thursday night, saying the former AL MVP and Rookie of the Year will make his Surf Dawgs debut Monday night on the road against the Chico Outlaws.\n\nCanseco will make his debut at 10:05 ET on July 3.\n\nCanseco's return to baseball comes some 19 months after he attracted Congress' attention with an autobiography, "Juiced," that accused several top players of steroid use.\n\nIn March 2005, he testified before the House Government Reform committee that he used performance-enhancing drugs as a player.\n\nCanseco didn't immediately return a message left on his cell phone.\n\nThe news release announcing the deal said Canseco will be the DH "and will showcase his knuckleball as a member of the team's pitching staff."\n\nCanseco made one big league pitching appearance, working the final inning for the Texas Rangers in a 15-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox on May 29, 1993. He walked the bases loaded and allowed three runs and two hits. He threw 12 strikes and 21 balls, most of which were far from the strike zone.\n\nCanseco will be playing for the league maximum of $2,500 per month.\n\n"We strive to provide a high quality entertainment product, and Jose will undoubtedly be entertaining for our fans," GBL president Amit Patel said in a statement.\n\nThe GBL is essentially baseball's lowest rung. Rickey Henderson played for the Surf Dawgs last year as he tried to attract the attention of a big league team.\n\nCanseco hasn't played in the big leagues since 2001 with the Chicago White Sox, who purchased his contract from the independent Newark Bears.\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nDon't bank on a cup of coffee coming his way.
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Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yah.\n\nHate Stuart Scott??? Are you on drugs man? He's the best of the ESPN announcers next to Chris "Shelly" Berman
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260520104
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He is one of the most important hitters on the Boston Red Sox.  The Minnesota Twins made a big mistake in trading him, though he wasn't as good in Minnesota, but that's because they were trying to get him to swing differently.  Nice job, David Ortiz!...\n***\nHe loves it when you call him Big Papi\nOrtiz has a lot to smile about.\nLife is good when you are rich, play professional baseball and, as Jeff Passan writes, are named David Ortiz.\nThe Big Jig\nBy Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports\nBOSTON – David Ortiz strolled into the press conference that announced his $50 million contract extension earlier this week wearing the Gross National Product of a small country in diamonds. Fat ones weighted down each ear, about 25 smaller ones hung in a necklace, petite ones encrusted his watch and an uncountable number shone from a bracelet.\n\n"You can get diamonds like that, too," Ortiz said Friday. "You've got to make $50 million first."\n\nOrtiz laughed, and it was no ordinary laugh. It echoed around the Boston Red Sox clubhouse, loud and cacophonous and addicting. It was as coy as wearing half a million bucks or so in jewelry, and it was vintage Big Papi.\n\nSubtlety doesn't exist in David Ortiz's world. Everything is big. His laugh and his bling. His car (a $280,000 Mercedes) and his swing (a looping uppercut into which he thrusts all of his weight, listed at a kindly 230 pounds). His life is one big carnival, and he's the kid walking around with the biggest stuffed animal.\n\n"I'm a happy person," Ortiz said. "Everything about life. If I started telling you, I couldn't finish."\n\nSo we'll start where Ortiz would: On the field at Fenway Park before Friday's victory against Seattle, rekindling an old handshake with Matt Lawton – a two-kick, one-hand slap, no-pretense jig that sent them both into convulsions. Of all the things Ortiz enjoys, bantering with friends might come in third to hitting home runs and spending time with his family.\n\nOrtiz spent so much time commiserating with Lawton and Eddie Guardado, his former teammates at Minnesota, he missed a round of batting practice. When Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell pointed out that Ortiz was about to miss a second turn, he scurried into the cage and walloped two balls over the Green Monster.\n\n"He does enjoy what he's doing, and he should," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "If you were David, you would have fun, too. He's making a boatload of money, he's one of the best hitters in the game and he's a good guy."\n\nAll of those factors have conspired to take the 30-year-old Ortiz from a practical no-name at the beginning of the 2003 season to the lynchpin of the Red Sox franchise in 2006. Ortiz led the American League in RBIs last season, finished second in home runs and got jobbed in MVP voting. In a matter of three seasons, he went from being not offered a contract by the Twins to such ubiquity in the New England area that women parade around in T-shirts reading:\n\nPLEASE ME\nORTIZ ME\n\nWere Ortiz simply a great player, he would not inspire the idolatry he does. It is his joie de vivre that makes him a hero in his native Dominican Republic and Boston, two places that couldn't be any more different. It's also the egregious bat flip when he hit home runs in the World Baseball Classic against Cuba, and the smile that glows like his teeth were made of ivory, and the ability to wear sunglasses indoors and not look like a moron.\n\nThe demand for Ortiz has grown commensurate to his numbers. During a photo shoot this spring, Sports Illustrated wanted to play off outfielder Coco Crisp's name with a pitcher of milk.\n\nOrtiz was in charge of figuring out what to do with it.\n\n"It was scripted for a little bit," Crisp said. "And it all fell out the window when I felt how cold the milk was. It was a warm day, and the milk was ice cold. When y
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Barry Bonds, Chipper Jones & Manny Ramirez
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I searched and searched for ya, but I'm convinced it really WAS just some guy talking at your party. I hate not finding an answer. :o(
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Trevor Crowe has been making a lot of noise in Arizona Fall League and he is an outfielder.  I think the one that got away is\ngoing to make the most noise in San Diego.  His name is Kevin\nKouzmanoff and is a 3B-OF.
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It was very amusing. In fact it made me laugh my a$$ off. Remember though, for all his theatrics he did not bump, touch, or physically make contact with an umpire. Nor did he throw anything at an umpire. It was really more show than harmful. \n\nBasically he performed a montage of Managers anger at umpires greatest hits incorporating scenes from past arguments from experts like Lou Pinella, Billy Martin, and Larry Bowa... \n\nHe probaqbly doesn't even deserve his one week suspension, but because of the widespread play of it, they had very little choice.\n\nIMHO his comments after the game about how terrible the umpires are was a worse crime than his heat of the moment theatrics on the field.
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Blaine held his breath for 7:08.---they will probably recap it on the ABC morning show. Here's a Washingston Post story on the event http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR2006050801681.html  Thanks for asking :-)
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Georgie Porgie has said it all. I am a Red Sox fan, and that they are starting him tonight scares the hell out of me, especially since they are going for their 13th win in a row and his career ERA is close to 5!! Maybe they got a bargain, but I don't think so!! Look at the teams who had a chance to get him before the Red Sox took him off waivers. That also tells a story.\n\nRed Sox fans unite and pray!!
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I assume someone is on base.  If it's past you, quickly take off your helmet/mask as you turn to go after the ball, and get rid of the helmet/mask away from where you are going, and away from other players.  More importantly, the teammates (both on the field and in the dugout) should be yelling and pointing towards where the ball is, so the catcher should be listening to that as well.  \n\nIf no one's on base, it really doesn't matter.
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It was a good fight, Mayorga got what he deserved. Someone needed to shut him up. I bet he feels like such a dork, talking all that smack!
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heard maybe the yankees because of sheffield/matsui situation
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It will be tough, they just need guys to step up and fill the void.  Ramirez will have to hit like a man possessed and the pitching will have to be top notch.  If they can play .500 ball they might be able to make a run at the division when he gets back.  But I am not sure they will be able to even do that.