Say it ain't so, Manny

By adamg on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:05pm

Manny being A-Rod? Manny Ramirez will be suspended 50 games for positive drug test, the Los Angeles Times reports.

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Karma

By mixylplik3
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:23pm

Karma's a bitch.

Baseball really needs some sweeping steroid testing reform. The MLBPA will be against what needs to be done but who is going to stand up for the fans? In my mind, no one is clean. Everyones' numbers are suspect in my mind.

This is sad because I love baseball.

Youk's beard sings out

By adamg
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:30pm

Manny and A-Rod sitting in a tree I-N-J-E-C-T-I-N-G.

Manny Being Druggy.

By Finn
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 12:51pm

Manny Being Druggy.

You don't think ...?

By adamg
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 1:23pm

Ted McEnroe worries Manny might not have started whatever he's alleged to have done in LA:

If this develops into significant allegations that Manny used illegal substances while in Boston - the chuckles here will turn sour in a hurry and those World Series trophies might tarnish a bit.

We'll just have to wait and see ... and listen. Pull up a chair and brace yourself. This is about to get really interesting - in a troubling sort of way.

I'd still do drugs if I were in the MLB

By cosmo.catalano
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 1:26pm

A baseball player not on steriods makes $3 million a year.

A baseball player on steroids who doesn't get caught makes $25 million a year.

A baseball player on steroids who gets caught makes $17 million a year and extra vacation.

If Manny were a professional cyclist, he'd be suspended from competition for two years, and have to pay back his entire salary for the season.

-Cosmo
http://cosmocatalano.com
World's Toughest Writer

Manny: It wasn't steroids

By adamg
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 1:27pm

Statements by Ramirez and the players' union:

... Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was okay to give me. Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy. Under the policy that mistake is now my responsibility. I have been advised not to say anything more for now. I do want to say one other thing; I've taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons. ...

Wow, 15!

By cosmo.catalano
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 2:05pm

And it only took five seasons. That's three tests per season, ones less than the leader of the Tour de France faces on any given day.

-Cosmo
http://cosmocatalano.com
World's Toughest Writer

Enhancing a different type of performance?

By adamg
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 2:06pm

Source: Ramirez's substance a sexual enhancer.

Bob Ryan sums it up

By adamg
Thu, 05/07/2009 - 5:51pm

Be careful. Manny could be telling the truth:

... If any baseball superstar is capable of taking a medication in all innocence, and then finding out that something in it is included on Major League Baseball's banned list of substances it is Manny Ramírez. It certainly fits the profile.

After all, who should know better than us? ...

Say it ain't so, Manny

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