Hanley Ramirez Just Destroyed a Baseball, And He’s Well Aware of It

Since I’ve been cautioning everyone about getting too overly excited about Yasiel Puig — at least until he’s hitting better than Brian Barden is — I suppose I need to reign it in a bit about how much Hanley Ramirez has been tearing the cover off the ball in the World Baseball Classic. After all, small sample size, varying opposition, blerp blop bleep.

But then he has to go and not only murder a baseball well into the night like he did just now, he also then stares at it, walks down the line, and throws in a bat flip for good measure? Well, if he’s going to do that… this could just be a really, really fun season.

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EephusBlue
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Wow. Today the game is going to be packed

EephusBlue
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So Rivera is gonna retire after 2013. As Eric Stephen pointed out, the last 42.

LA_Woman
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Keith Olbermann:

I’m sure Vin is not the saint we all portray him as, but that’s really just a hunch because nothing I’ve ever seen him do suggests otherwise. The self-deprecation never ends; even today his first words after hello were “thank you.” I said you’re welcome and then asked him what I’d done. He said “thank you for writing that excellent and kind blog about the Piazza interview.”

Ohhh, yeah. That was nearly a month ago and that was what he wanted to talk about. We batted back and forth the singular personality that is Mike Piazza, but mostly he was talking about friendship and support, and I mentioned that this was the kind of loyalty his kindness and patience engendered, and that I knew I spoke for many when I said I felt like it was our job to fire the arrows when he was attacked – especially when it was as unjustified and as inexplicable as it was in poor Piazza’s self-destructive book. And then there were the usual friendship questions that I invariably suddenly realize are being asked and answered by the Babe Ruth or William Shakespeare of his field and I remember why it took me three years to stop shaking long enough to say hello back in 1988.

http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2013/03/07/jim-thome-and-other-friends/

Shadow Commish
Shadow Commish

 @LA_Woman I feel like Vin is the nicest, most polite person I know and I have never even met the man. 

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ALL THE MEEHECAN DODGERS,

(VND)
(VND)

Camden, NJ looks unreal. 

WBBsAs
WBBsAs

 @DNV Slogan for its license plates: "The Tenement State"

Dodgers' 7th Ring
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guys such a beast tweet i just made

ThtsaPaddlin
ThtsaPaddlin

 @darknesssss I wouldn't know.  I don't follow you.

LA_Woman
LA_Woman

Huh... some kinda drama going on in TX about Nolan Ryan staying or not...

(VND)
(VND)

 @LA_Woman doesnt wanna be a figure head or something like that.

LA_Woman
LA_Woman

 @DNV Yeah, I don't really understand it. Someone else's title changed (promotion?) so he's hurt??? I don't know. Bet Greinke's happy about his choice.

(VND)
(VND)

 @LA_Woman definitely dodged a front office mess. by one year.

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i finally made a halfway decent photoshop eephus i think would be proud

EephusBlue
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 @darknesssss oh yeah? U got photoshop?

Dodgers' 7th Ring
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 @EephusBlue well its that gimp thing, but i made it and now i dont know how to open it because it has a weird file format

EephusBlue
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 @darknesssss There should be an export function where u can save it as a jpeg or something

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Harold Reynolds on Adrian Gonzalez of Team Mexico: Great baseball player.  Knows what his job is and how to do it.

 

Harold Reynolds on Adrian Gonzalez of the Los Angeles Dodgers: Overpaid underperformer.

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 @ThtsaPaddlin In spring training Adrian shot a really cold look at me when I waved at him in a friendly way that I didn't really appreciate, so it's difficult not to hate on him a bit. I watched him during those few days. His attitude leaves something to be desired.