Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and has been suspended 50 games starting today, Major League Baseball confirmed. The suspension will cost Ramirez $7.7 million, or roughly 31% of his $25-million salary. Players in violation of baseball’s drug policy are not paid during suspensions.
This is the final nail in the reputation of Manny Ramirez, athlete. His personal reputation was killed by slow motion suicide over the past five years, now his professional reputation has also been TKO’d by suicide. Hey, one more category Manny leads the league in…self -inflicted wounds!
A final thought while I set up a DVR of SportsCenter so I can watch this segment on a loop…Jose Canseco is money on the topic of steriods,
In an appearance at USC last month, Jose Canseco said Ramirez’s name “is most likely, 90%” on a list of 104 players that failed a drug test in 2003. The players were promised anonymity for taking tests in 2003; Rodriguez is the only player that has been identified among that group.
Courtesy of the Whiner Line on WEEI, “That’s just Manny being Tranny” and “Maybe that’s why he takes a week off every month”
It is not an anabolic steroid but rather a fertility drug that is widely considered to be part of the chemical enhancement game played by athletes. The hormone is produced naturally by women during pregnancy and often is used by steroid users to reboot their body’s natural testosterone production coming off a steroid cycle. It is also associated in the sports and the bodybuilding communities with serious and prolonged steroid use.
UPDATE II: Peter Gammons will believe anything an agent tells him. What a jock sniffer. He’s pathetic.
Manny Ramirez is already yearning for the old days — of Cleveland.
Ramirez, who early last month signed a two-year, $45 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, says a return to the Cleveland Indians before retirement would be ideal.
“I would like to play for Cleveland one more time, to go back where I started,” Ramirez told USA Today. “I have so many good memories there, why not?
“I think to go back where you started is everyone’s dream.”
Manny Ramirez has played exactly 0.021% of his two-year contract (7 out of 324 games) and he is already talking about the next team he would like to play for? What a stand-up guy. Such respect for his employer. Stay classy Manny. We expect nothing less from you!
Bat in hand, Manny Ramirez strolled into the Dodgers’ clubhouse before Sunday’s game, looked at the lineup card and saw he was listed to play his normal position of left field for the first time this spring.
“Left field?” he said, tongue firmly in his cheek. “Are we trying?” Then he walked away and joked, “We’ll get ‘em tomorrow.”
Disgraced aging malcontent Manny Ramirez hasn’t been able to pick himself a winner of a contract this offseason. After quiting on the team and stealing $20 million from the Red Sox last season, Manny went to the Dodgers and tore the cover off the ball. This only served to remind baseball owners that Manny’s talent is like a faucet, something that can be turned off at any time. Manny entered the offseason with dreams of another $100 million contract. When the Dodgers offered him 2-years for $45 million, he didn’t even dignify the offer with a no. He never responded. One can only speculate what Manny’s reaction was to the Dodgers latest offer, which is the only one he has on the table two weeks away from Spring Training,
Dodgers make Ramirez a one-year offer
The Los Angeles Dodgers made Manny Ramirez a one-year, $25 million offer Monday, according to a baseball source, a substantial departure from the two-year, $45 million offer they extended in November at the general manager meetings.
Schadenfreude never felt so good. This guy is the biggest insult to fans in all of sport. Rumor has it that agent Scott Boras is working on an application to create a new set of TARP funds, the Troubled Athlete Relief Program.
UPDATE: From the Herald, “Cardinals slugger and friend Albert Pujols, who told reporters in the Dominican on Thursday that Ramirez felt unwanted, “I speak with Manny every three days and he tells me, ‘Man, no one wants to sign me,’.
Although the 11-win Patriots missed the playoffs, there is some positive local sports news. Manny Ramirez is losing millions every day as the free agent market doesn’t exactly work out as he had planned.
Here is ESPN’s Buster Olney yesterday saying that the market for Manny just isn’t there and that he’ll probably end up with the Dodgers,
Today, ESPN is reporting that the Dodgers may have moved on from the disgraced, aging, one-dimensional malcontent,
Apparently, the Dodgers aren’t going to sit around all winter, waiting for Manny Ramirez to beg to come back. They now have Adam Dunn on their shopping list.
The Dodgers contacted Dunn’s agent, Greg Genske, over the holidays, according to an executive of a team interested in Dunn. And that creates an intriguing option for both parties.
Now that the Yankees have signed Mark Teixeira, it looks pretty unlikely that they will make a move for Manny Ramirez. Manny was reportedly expecting a three year, $75 million offer any day now from the Evil Empire,
A source told New York Daily News that Ramirez is telling friends an offer is imminent.
Still more bad news for the disgraced, aging, one-dimensional malcontent,
Angels general manager Tony Reagins told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that the club will not pursue Ramirez. “Manny will not be an Angel,” Reagins said. “
A shrinking market means less leverage and hopefully, less money for Manny, which is all he is about after all. That takes some of the sting out of the Yankees Teixeira signing.
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