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One of then greatest hitters in History hits his 500th!!! He's such a stoner! :pullanolte

Ramizzle is my nizzle.

Road trippin' to Balmer tomorrow - was hoping to see #500.

Wouldn't be surprised if he sits now...

I'll be in Camden Yards for the August series...maybe Man-Ram will have his 530th by then!!

lotsajizz wrote on May 31^st, 2008 at 8:56pm:

I'll be in Camden Yards for the August series...maybe Man-Ram will have his 530th by then!!

O's must wish the Sox came to town more often.
The Nation packs that place and turns it into Fenway South.

The Red Sox are America's team...by far the biggest road draw. NY? The past. The distant past.

Yeah whenever the Sox come to Oakland,the palce is packed. With Red Sox fans. :blankfriggingstare1

I agree Manny is a great player.

baseball bin berry berry good to me.............

left shoe shuffle wrote on May 31^st, 2008 at 8:49pm:

Ramizzle is my nizzle.

Road trippin' to Balmer tomorrow - was hoping to see #500.

Wouldn't be surprised if he sits now...

Damn...Why could he not wait a day for you...

Hey, I did see Mike Schmidt hit his 500th on a Sunday afternoon at Three Rivers. I was a lot younger then, and I had no idea what I witnessed.

robpop wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 4:20pm:

left shoe shuffle wrote on May 31^st, 2008 at 8:49pm:

Ramizzle is my nizzle.

Road trippin' to Balmer tomorrow - was hoping to see #500.

Wouldn't be surprised if he sits now...

Damn...Why could he not wait a day for you...

Hey, I did see Mike Schmidt hit his 500th on a Sunday afternoon at Three Rivers. I was a lot younger then, and I had no idea what I witnessed.

Best Bradshaw ever?

Some Guy wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 4:22pm:

robpop wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 4:20pm:

left shoe shuffle wrote on May 31^st, 2008 at 8:49pm:

Ramizzle is my nizzle.

Road trippin' to Balmer tomorrow - was hoping to see #500.

Wouldn't be surprised if he sits now...

Damn...Why could he not wait a day for you...

Hey, I did see Mike Schmidt hit his 500th on a Sunday afternoon at Three Rivers. I was a lot younger then, and I had no idea what I witnessed.

Best Bradshaw ever?

Well played my Van Halen review dodging friend!

he's a great player, one of my faves, next to big pappy [poppy]

i have been involved with the stanly cup and then the nba finals, but i'll get back to americas favorite past time soon enough.

it was a great hit.............i saw it on the news. congrats to him.

:funny

robpop wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 4:20pm:

left shoe shuffle wrote on May 31^st, 2008 at 8:49pm:

Ramizzle is my nizzle.

Road trippin' to Balmer tomorrow - was hoping to see #500.

Wouldn't be surprised if he sits now...

Damn...Why could he not wait a day for you...

Hey, I did see Mike Schmidt hit his 500th on a Sunday afternoon at Three Rivers. I was a lot younger then, and I had no idea what I witnessed.

Well Manny did hit one yesterday, too.
Missed him in LF though.

Got another chance to see history on Wednesday in Philly.
Griffey needs one more for 600 - and Brett Myers might be just the one to serve it up...

wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 5:08pm:

he's a great player, one of my faves, next to big pappy [poppy]

Big Papi.

left shoe shuffle wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 5:33pm:

wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 5:08pm:

he's a great player, one of my faves, next to big pappy [poppy]

Big Papi.

yeah...........that guy.

left shoe shuffle wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 5:33pm:

wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2008 at 5:08pm:

he's a great player, one of my faves, next to big pappy [poppy]

Big Papi.

Here I thought he was talking about me....

Surprising that a team that sucks ass LIKES ass, no? BTW Who's the homo? Papelbom?

Typos, like shit, happen(s)!

from CNN/Reuters

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Manny Ramirez hits 500th Home Run, praises Winston Churchill

6/2/2008 15:38

Manny Ramirez has hit his 500th Home Run.

In the top of the 7th inning on Saturday night at Camden Yards in Baltimore, on an 82 MPH pitch from former teammate Chad Bradford, Ramirez became the 24th major leaguer to accomplish the feat of hitting 500 round trippers.

Upon touching home plate, Ramirez pointed to the sky and gave thanks to our lord Jesus Christ and Winston Churchill, who, according to Ramirez, is one of the greatest men in human history. Ramirez took the time to remind all Red Sox fans that "if it weren't for Winston and his steadfastness in the face of tyranny", Europe would have been overrun by "those goddamn Germans" back in '41.

His teammates chimed in. "He's right," David Ortiz was quoted as saying. "Hitler was a fucking nutjob. Completely crazy. Not even close to being sane."

How Britain lost its empire And Manny Got Back His Groove
Patrick J. Buchanan, Creators Syndicate, Inc.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

When President Bush, before the Knesset, used the word "appeasement" to label those who would negotiate with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he invoked the most powerful analogy in any debate over war and peace. No man wishes to be regarded as an "appeaser."

But, as this writer has discovered since my book "Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World" was launched Memorial Day, there is a deep well of ignorance about what happened that September, 70 years ago.

Why did Neville Chamberlain go to Munich? How did Munich lead to World War II?

The seeds of the crisis were planted at the Paris peace conference of 1919. There, the victorious Allies carved the new nation of Czechoslovakia out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

But instead of following their principle of self-determination, the Allies placed under the rule of 7 million Czechs some 3 million Germans, 3 million Slovaks, 800,000 Hungarians, 150,000 Poles and 500,000 Ruthenians. These foolish decisions spat upon President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, under the terms of which the Germans, Austrians and Hungarians had laid down their arms.

By 1938, Germany had arisen, re-armed and was demanding the right of self-determination now be granted to the 3 million Germans in Czechoslovakia, who were clamoring to be free of Prague. Britain had no alliance with, and no obligation to fight for, the Czechs. But France did. And Great Britain feared that if Adolf Hitler used force to bring the Sudeten Germans back to German rule, France might fight. And if France declared war, Britain would be drawn in, and a second bloodbath would ensue as it had in 1914.

Chamberlain went to Munich because he did not believe that keeping 3 million Germans inside a nation to which they had been consigned against their will was worth a world war.

Moreover, Britain was unprepared for war. She had no draft, no Spitfires, no divisions ready to be sent to France. Why should the British Empire commit suicide by declaring war on Germany, to support a Paris peace agreement that he, Chamberlain, believed had been unjustly and dishonorably imposed on a defeated Germany?

Chamberlain believed not - and, after three trips to Germany that September, he effected the transfer of the Sudeten Germans to Berlin's rule, where they wished to be. He came home in triumph to be hailed as the greatest peacemaker of all time.

Why, then, are "Munich" and "appeasement" terms of obloquy?

The answer lies in what happened next.

Chamberlain returned from Munich to a rapturous reception, and declared: "For the second time in 60 years, a British prime minister has returned from Germany with peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time."

This was palpable nonsense. Hitler had already turned to the next item on his menu, Danzig, a city of 350,000 Germans, detached from the German empire at Versailles and made a Free City to give the new Poland an outlet to the sea. Hitler did not want war with Poland. He wanted the kind of alliance with Poland he had with Italy.

Here, too, the British government agreed: Danzig should be returned. For of all the amputations of German lands and peoples at Versailles, European statesmen, even Winston Churchill, regarded Danzig and the Polish Corridor that sliced Germany in two as the most outrageous. The problem was the Poles, who refused to discuss Danzig.

Then, in March, Czechoslovakia suddenly began to fall apart. The Sudetenland had been annexed by Germany. Hungary had taken back its lost lands, and Poland had annexed the disputed region of Teschen. Slovakia and Ruthenia now moved to declare independence, and Prague began to march on the provinces.

Hitler intervened to guarantee the independence of Slovakia, and gave Hungary a green light to reannex Ruthenia. Czech President Hacha then asked to see Hitler, who bullied him into signing away Czech sovereignty.

Chamberlain, now humiliated, mocked by Tory backbenchers, panicking over wild false rumors of German attacks on Romania and Poland, made the greatest blunder in British history. Unasked, he issued a war guarantee to Poland, empowering a Polish dictatorship of colonels that had joined Hitler in dismembering Czechoslovakia to drag the British Empire into war with Germany over a city, Danzig, the British thought should be returned to Germany.

It was not Munich. It was the war guarantee that guaranteed the war that brought down the Empire, and gave us the Holocaust, 50 million dead and the Stalinization of half of Europe.

And Manny's 500th home run.

off to the Racs, gents...must foam at political mouth later!

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