2008-08-09 Giants Game Welcome to LA!

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excelvir
August 10, 2008

Manuel "Manny" Aristides Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is an Dominican professional baseball player who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. A nine-time Silver Slugger, and one of twenty-four people to have hit over 500 career home runs, he is well recognized for his strong offensive abilities. He has the most career grand slams of any active player - and the second most of any player, and has led the American League in three key batting measures: batting average, home runs and runs batted in. For the past eleven years, Ramirez has been a fixture in the All-Star Game, and is a twelve-time All-Star. In 2004, he was named the Most Valuable Player of the World Series after helping the Boston Red Sox win their first World Series championship, over the St. Louis Cardinals, in over 86 years.

On July 31, 2008, Manny was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-way deal. The Boston Red Sox acquired outfielder Jason Bay and minor league infielder Josh Wilson, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got infielder Andy LaRoche, and pitcher Bryan Morris from the Dodgers, and outfielder Brandon Moss and pitcher Craig Hansen from the Red Sox.

Ramirez has always worn uniform number 24, but the Dodgers have retired that number in honor of Hall-of-Fame manager Walter Alston. Ramirez countered the Dodgers suggestion of 28 by suggesting 34, but no Dodger has worn that number since Fernando Valenzuela. Ramirez finally accepted number 99, but the next day asked for 28, the Dodgers' original suggestion. However, the Dodgers' marketing department had already begun producing merchandise with number 99, so Ramirez will wear that number.

Ramirez initially told manager Joe Torre that he would cut his dreadlocks. However, a few days later Torre said he was "not really concerned at this point" about Manny's hair, while the Dodgers were beginning to produce skullcaps with blue dreadlocks for fans to wear.

In his first game with the Dodgers on August 1, he went 2-for-4. The Dodgers lost, however, to the Arizona Diamondbacks by a score of 2 to 1. Manny hit his first home run with the Dodgers on August 2, 2008, in a game versus the Diamondbacks. It was a two-run home run to the left-field pavilion to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in a game which Los Angeles ultimately won, 4-2. This was the 511th home run of his career, tying him with Mel Ott on the all time home run list. Ramirez hit his 512th career homer the next day and currently sits in 20th spot among baseball's all-time home run leaders with 514.

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dodgers suck

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fuck the giants

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fuck you bg292 dodgers are the shit!!!!!!!!!

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Giants eat shit.

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FUCK THE DODGERS!!!!

bdog626 (8 months ago) Show Hide

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overrated way overrated!

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your mom is overrated look at his stats with the dodgers are you retarded or something?

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so your saying that everytime he goes to bat that he will hit it out of the park?

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no but who does that? A-Rod doesn't even do that, you clearly know nothing about baseball.

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Andrew Jones couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat.

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