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Deadspin gladly opened the window to the Chinese Professional Baseball League in time to catch former Tribe titan Manny Ramirez’s first home run for the EDA Rhinos.

While the HR itself is fine – and Ramirez’s swing stirs memories of his years in Cleveland – the true magic of this video comes by way of the Rhinos’ sincerely gushing fans. The crowd goes absofreakinlutely nuts as the ball sails toward the outfield. And the game’s announcers, whose passion evokes our very own Tom Hamilton, can’t lay the love on thick enough.

Dig the video below and relish the Eastern zeal.

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Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

4 replies on “Taiwan Freakin’ Loves Manny Ramirez”

  1. Starbury found a rebirth on the hardwood floor in the Chinese pro league….if ManRam does the right things, he could follow those sneaker steps into stardom.

  2. If you look closely at that bottom picture, you can see a used steroid syringe sticking out of his butt.

  3. manny has fallen so far from his glory days. glad he took the money from boston and ran

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