Manny waiting on 500?
With a no-hitter by Jon Lester Monday night and an excellent pitching performance by Justin Masterson last night, the wait continues for Manny Ramirez' 500th home run. Stuck at 498, he had some interesting things to say on the topic to Maureen Mullen in Tuesday's Lynn Item (though the comments were made over the weekend):
"There's something I've been meaning to tell you about the 500 home runs," Ramirez said. "I don't want to hit 500 right now. I want to wait a little while. No one is talking about it. No one's excited about it. I want to wait until everyone's excited about it."
Mullen asked him if he was excited at the prospect of reaching the milestone.
"Nah. Five hundred? No, I'll be excited for 600."
Ramirez reiterated, "No, I don't want to do it. I'm going to do it on the West coast."
Mullen pointed out to Ramirez that none of the sluggers who had reached the 500 homer milestone before him had done so at Fenway Park.
"That's OK," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "I'm going to wait."
Manny: All us Sox fans in Northern California are hoping you'll hit #500 in Oakland. See you on Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
Manny says all kinds of crazy things, I've seen him take some monster rips at the plate since these comments were supposedly made.
ohhhhhhh, so he's trying to strike out ! ...........now i get it.
That's ok Manny....wait...Wait until June 7 when I'm at Fenway PLEASE
Winning games is more important than 500 home runs... while I love Manny as much as any of the Fenway Faithful, I love our Sox more. The point of Manny hitting long balls is to help the team win games, not for Manny to reach personal milestones. I'm not a huge fan of comments like those...
That being said, Manny has done as much as anyone for us so I'll let Manny be Manny I s'pose...
"I'm going to wait??" Thata way to support the squad Manny....
Perfect I am a Rhode Islander who relocated to Seattle and I am going to be at Monday the 26th and Weds the 28th game so wait till them Manny
this is the most insane thing I have ever read - obviously Ramirez realizes he has been pressing and is tossing off nonsense to get the wolves off his back
OH MANNY!! WAIT till you come to Cincinatti, on Father's day!! That will be long enough to get the hype going............see you there baby!! RED SOX RULE!!!!!
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