Manny Ramirez tests positive

ESPN will find you.

Were there ever any rumors about Manny and PED’s? If not, why wasn’t he considered the “greatest pure slugger” after A-Rod’s scandal?

Some of those guys and guys like Giambi. Those guys still deny using, either by coming out and denying it, or by remaining silent.

The “should be” HOFers would improve their chances if they would admit to their wrongdoings. Not that I agree with this thought, but its the medias way of holding these players accountable for what they did/didn’t do.

to start using new excuses. Every effing player that’s been caught has said that it just happened to be in some other substance someone gave them or were prescribed.

Example: I was feeding my pegacorn and he bit me. Turns out their saliva contains PEDs. Who knew?

The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that outfielder Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers has been suspended for 50 games for a violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The suspension of Ramirez is effective immediately.

It was a supplement prescribed by a doctor. I wonder if they have lists of this stuff that is given out to the players so they know exactly what they can and can’t take. Not that Manny would read it, but the NFL had an issue with this when they tried to suspend 4 players who took a tainted supplement last year. The league knew it was tainted but didn’t inform the players.

I’m tired of all the witch hunts for this stuff. Put a list of what is banned on the mlb.com website so everyone knows. Then there’s no excuses.

I don’t think it matters

lately, they’ve been catching the people who are juicing. Doesn’t the prove more that it’s no longer FULL of cheaters. Sure, it used to be, but I honestly believe it’s getting better. Especially with a name like Manny getting suspended, a ton of players will be thinking twice.

My other problem is that if someone tests positive now, everyone assumes they were doing something before or have been doing something for years, when there’s no proof of that at all.

As Manny said, he’s been tested before and came up clean. He should be able to have MLB release all his negative test results and they should release exactly what he tested positive for. The union won’t let them do this, however, and I think that makes it really difficult because lack of evidence of anything only amounts to more suspicion of the players.

I have it on in the background. Guy’s a joke.

besides AZ and myself

so he could get on espn and bad mouth manny

Still got it, baby… still got it.

which frankly is not the kind of personality that produces lots of athletes in the first place (to say nothing of me as a physical specimen).
That said I would find it fairly easy to forgive borderline guys who do it. Still doesn’t mean I agree with it, but we’re not exactly talking about child molesters or communist dictators here.

I, as a Cubs fan, thought Sosa was juicing, but I cheered him on as he was hitting all those home runs in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Of course, there is no hard evidence that Sosa juiced. To be brutally honest, I couldn’t have blamed Sosa for juicing back then. He was making a lot of money and getting a lot of attention. I don’t want to be sanctimonious and puritanical by ripping players, who might have juiced during the steroids era.

Than I do what ever I need to get into MLB. That is a substantial amount of money not to do something to get in the majors.

That’s kind of a boring way of putting it.

Frankly, I still wouldn’t because I’d be paranoid of what that shit would do to my body, but still, that “penalties aside” will make the difference with almost everyone’s vote.

and the potential game-throwing-to-get-traded last year, manny should definitely much worse shape than Mac, at least.

So I was right. Not about the Viagra part necessarily, but that it is a sexual enhancer. Wow.

I don’t see how there could be an “innocent” reason Manny was taking a WOMEN’s FERTILITY DRUG other than the post-steroid explanation, but how could the man be so dumb? Really, it’s mind boggling.

and what he got caught taking today was supposed to rebuild his system after he was done with them? or am i way off & this is just something he’s taking to help make babies?

used hCG.

though I’m taking that as an accurate representation of his sports reporting skills?

Pig Puma? sounds like an interesting character

three of his former teammates got a lot of help from PED’s, and he never had a problem with them

or espn will show highlights of you hitting home runs over and over and steve philips will put on a pouty, serious face (and the commish won’t let you play)

 you’re setting yourself up for a fall.

This innocent hero mentality is part of the problem. The sooner we face the fact that almost everyone who’s played ball in the last 15 years has used PEDs, the sooner we can be adults about this and stop putting our fingers in our ears when the subject comes up.

I’m not saying I think Albert did ’em. But if it came out tomorrow that he did, I would not be surprised and I would not be upset. He would be no worse than most of the other players in the game. And I would still hold the commissioner, owners, managers, coaches, and trainers much more responsible than I do any one player. They knew bad shit was being done and turned a blind eye because they were making money hand over fist .

Let us not forget that the players aren’t the only ones making bank here…or the only ones who cheated to do so.

it boosted his testosterone, and that’s a no-no.