A-Rod hits his 500th homerun!

[Lizzaroni]

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NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez became the 22nd member of the prestigious 500 home run club on Saturday, slugging a three-run homer off Kyle Davies of the Kansas City Royals for the landmark blast.

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At 32 years and eight days of age, Rodriguez is the youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs. Jimmie Foxx held the previous mark at 32 years, 338 days. Rodriguez also became just the third player to hit his 500th home run in a Yankees uniform, joining Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle.Congrats to A-Rod!

[MattFurtado-AMN]

Excellent to see it finally happen. Way to go A-Rod.

[John35]

This guy has been under so much pressure (especially now in NY) from practically everybody, ever since he signed that quarter of a billion dollar contract with the Rangers. A lot of incredible things he does tend to go unnoticed, like the friggin' MOSTER year he's having right now statistically. Mathematically speaking he will almost certainly have a chance to obliterate the homerun record and keep it out of reach for a long long time. I've just always questioned whether or not his drive for the game will keep up and keep him wanting to play for another 10 years. Financially he doesn't have to and he is definitely charismatic and attractive enough to pursue other ventures aside from Baseball. Let's hope he stays.

CONGRATULATIONS A-ROD!!!!!

[Sean-AMN]

Arod nice work bro... next up get us in the playoffs.. or destroy boston... as a whole. Oh and kick the **** out of Bonds while your at it

[prime_timer]

I think he's going to keep playing until he gets a ring or until he just can't physically play anymore.

Good job Alex.

[bountyhunter]

Arod nice work bro... next up get us in the playoffs.. or destroy boston... as a whole. Oh and kick the **** out of Bonds while your at it

Dude, Bonds would kick the **** out of A-Rod.

[Sean-AMN]

he is roided up...

[John35]

Actually, Barry Bonds is not really a good fighter. He got his ass kicked in 1998 by one of his teammates, who was an old man no less. To be fair, the guy (Danny Darwin) was a tough old Texan.

I would also like to congratulate Barry on his 755th career homerun. These two gusy (Bonds and A-Rod) are eternally linked now.

[Lizzaroni]

I found it a bit amusing how they both had a bit of a 'dry spell' and then reached a landmark on the same day.

[Smokey]

Meh. Not too crazy about this. Not too crazy about A-Rod. Not too crazy about baseball. I just don't care.