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This Week's Scandals

Manny Ramirez Suspended.

As I'm sure you've seen somewhere on the web, Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. Hugo and I talked about the possibility that Jays might go after him this past off-season. I'm so glad they didn't.

Manny, to me, doesn't look the type that would be using. He doesn't look like a body builder, at least as far as I can tell, but that shows what I know.  This really hurts the Dodgers as he is the power bat in the order but they are 5 games up in first place in the NL West and none of the other NL West teams look good enough to make a run.

I guess we should have a poll on what his excuse will be for the positive result. 

The other fun little scandal is from the new book on Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts 'A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez' that suggests that ARod tipped pitches to opposing players so that those players would tip pitches back for him. 

Now if this is true, what a scum this man is. I mean, yeah it was supposed to be happening in blow out games and all, but you are screwing with your pitchers stats. Baseball salaries are huge and are performance driven. If a borderline pitcher is throwing in a blow out for your team and you tip pitches and his ERA jumps, he may get sent down to the minors. This effects his ability to make a living.

Guys that are pitching in blow outs are trying to impress their manger so that the manager might later have faith in him to pitch in higher leverage spots. Pitching more, with a lower ERA, is how a player makes the big bucks. Or how a player stays in the game long enough to get to a major league pension.

If ARod is doing this, does he also have deals with players on other teams not to field balls so the player gets a single instead of an out? This would explain a lot about the ERAs of some of the Yankee relief pitchers. Yeah it was fun in Bull Durham when Kevin Costner told the batter a fastball was coming, but doing it in real life is far less funny. Guys are trying to give their families security and their teammate, making a quarter of a billion dollars, is trying to pad his stats. That is a teammate you would like to have. 

Yankee fans may owe Kyle Farnsworth an apology.

 

Poll
What will Manny's excuse be for the positive drug test?
Doctor's prescription for injury.
67 votes
Contaminated Protein powder.
3 votes
Cousin stuck him
3 votes
Alien abduction, while probing they gave him steroids.
17 votes
All my friends where either doing that or jumping off bridges....
3 votes
Something else, explain in comments, extra points for funniest.
12 votes

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Perhaps Manny took steriods to strengthen his hair……….

by ME-D on May 7, 2009 3:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

maybe that's why he needed them....

Joe Torre made him cut his hair some when he became a Dodger. His power was in his hair…

by Tom Dakers on May 7, 2009 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

As a fan of the team that is currently

plagued with Farnsworth’s pitching, what does he have to do with the Manny situation, and why do Yankee fans owe him an apology?

Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!

by cmkeller on May 7, 2009 3:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

No no....Farnsworth is part of the second story....

Suggesting that he might have done better for the Yankees if someone wasn’t tipping pitches.

by Tom Dakers on May 7, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe Manny thought that using Performance Enhancing Drugs was okay

provided that you counterbalance them with Performance Decreasing “Recreational” Drugs

"The NY Mets are my favorite squadron" -- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

by jessef on May 7, 2009 4:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The reported answer Yahoo gave

is quite hilarious on it’s own. A “sex enhancer”.

AWmusic - mp3 blog on independent music..

by achengy on May 7, 2009 4:13 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

ummmmm....

My admittedly limited understanding of steroids is that they cause certain parts of the body to get smaller……how is that a sex enhancer? Oh well….

by Tom Dakers on May 7, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Manny is calling it a sex enhancer

Very suspicious. He probably lacked the testosterone to “perform”, perhaps from chronic steroid use?

AWmusic - mp3 blog on independent music..

by achengy on May 7, 2009 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

if it's made up, that's a clever one -

it’s embarassing enough that it could be true, who would lie about that?

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on May 7, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Latest I saw was as a prescription for ED – equally hilarious.

by Blue and White Expat on May 7, 2009 5:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

A women’s sex ehancer… even better!

Until of course you find out that it is used as a masking agent for bouncing back after a steroid treatment.

I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it. - Dogbert

by JohnnyG on May 7, 2009 7:10 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Excuse: So he could hit more homeruns

I would fully endorse a guy, especially from the 98-04 era that just came out and admitted, I juiced, I hit jacks. As long as the guy wasn’t Canseco and threw everyone else under the bus.

And 2-0 TB. Yankees suck.

by Rhinos on May 7, 2009 7:18 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Looks like it's a little late

Hugo is here so, have no fear ;).

AWmusic - mp3 blog on independent music..

by achengy on May 7, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

we're on it!

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on May 7, 2009 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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