Breaking News: Manny Suspended 50 Games for PEDs

[Keeper]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-manny-ramirez8-2009may08,0,6324894.story

 

Discuss.

[msubulldogs21]

Um, wow.

 

Jason Bay > Manny

[BoSox21]

Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games starting today, The Times has learned.

 

The test result and suspension is expected to be announced later today. The Dodgers informed triple-A outfielder Xavier Paul this morning that he was being promoted to Los Angeles.

 

Ramirez is expected to attribute the test results to medication received from a doctor for a personal medical issue, according to a source familiar with matter but not authorized to speak publicly.

 

With the suspension taking effect with tonight's game at Dodger Stadium, Ramirez will not be eligible to return to the team until July 3.

 

- LA Times

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-manny-ramirez8-2009may08,0,6324894.story

[Keeper]

Haha, just beat you to it.

[BSN07]

Holy s***. Kind of surprising but not really.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Holy f***ing s***, you have GOT to be kidding me. No f***ing way. No. f***ing. Way.

 

I have no analysis. I have no discussion. All I have to say is holy. f***ing. s***.

 

No way.

[BoSox21]

Haha' date=' just beat you to it.[/quote']

 

slut.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Never mind.

[das11209]

Never mind.

 

ESPN says PED

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4148907

[BSN07]

Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games starting today, The Times has learned.

[schillingouttheks]

Disappointed, not surprised.

[BSN07]

I wonder if he will come under the same scrutiny as all the others who have benn busted one way or another. He has a built in "stupidity" clause though...

[BoSox21]

It still surprises me. Call me naive but it still surprises me.

[Keeper]

I think "disappointed, not surprised" will be the general consensus on this one.

 

Looks like Conseco has struck again with his accuracy.

[BSN07]

Disappointed' date=' not surprised.[/quote']

 

The same.

 

 

So is he still one of the best RH hitters ever?

 

 

T minus 2 minutes and counting before we get flooded by Yankees spunk and there lame attempts to taunt us over Manny's use. Of course it's only to be expected after what they have endured over the past couple seasons.

[BoSox21]

well, you know what this means...

 

no more saying the Yankees winning game 7 in '03 is tainted cause Giambi hit two HRs

[das11209]

I think "disappointed' date=' not surprised" will be the general consensus on this one.[/quote']

 

Manny being Manny.

 

In today's world - baseball is probably as scrutinized as the financial market. You hardly hear any big name getting caught any more at best you hear someone like Romero. Most important ball players have stopped doing it all-together - too risky.

[Keeper]

You know Yankee fans are licking their chops right now. It won't be long before they swarm in here.

[BSN07]

well, you know what this means...

 

no more saying the Yankees winning game 7 in '03 is tainted cause Giambi hit two HRs

 

Saying that would be dumb and pointless anyways.

[BSN07]

You know Yankee fans are licking their chops right now. It won't be long before they swarm in here.

 

They will try and ultimately fail. Manny is in LA, tested positive in LA. They can speculate as much as they feel like about his time in Boston.

[Keeper]

I wonder what this does to the Dodgers. Are they still the team to beat in that division?

[das11209]

They will try and ultimately fail. Manny is in LA' date=' tested positive in LA. They can speculate as much as they feel like about his time in Boston.[/quote']

 

To be fair - Selina Roberts only specualted that A-Rod did not stop taking PED when he came to the Yankees.

[BSN07]

To be fair - Selina Roberts only specualted that A-Rod did not stop taking PED when he came to the Yankees.

 

I'll give her speculation a little more credit. Professional journalist> Yankee apologist on a Red Sox message board...

[BSN07]

I wonder what this does to the Dodgers. Are they still the team to beat in that division?

 

This screws over the Dodgers bad. After all that s*** they went through to get the guy to come to the team this winter, this happens.

 

There lineup isn't the same without Manny plain and simple.

 

 

Trading Manny and bringing in Bay might have been one of Theo's better moves from a PR standpoint lol

[das11209]

 

Trading Manny and bringing in Bay might have been one of Theo's better moves from a PR standpoint lol

 

That trade looks lot better for Theo now than it did last summar.

 

Can he trade Ortiz before he becomes breaking news?

 

Edit - I take it back - don't think Papi is doing PED any more.

[Keeper]

I agree about the Dodgers. They were a .500 team without him last year. Don't see why that would change now.

[das11209]

I agree about the Dodgers. They were a .500 team without him last year. Don't see why that would change now.

 

They always have a chance in the weakest division of MLB.

[schillingouttheks]

If he is doing it in LA, he did it in Boston. You know it, I know it.

 

It doesn't matter. They all do it.

[Spudboy]

I too am disappointed, but not surprised. It's disappointing because as much of jerk he was most of the time, I bought into the idea that he was one of the great hitters of all time. Certainly during the 40+ years I've been watching the game. What an ass. He appeared to be a "Natural" athlete. I don't know what drugs he took and I don't know how his performance was effected. I am glad he is in L.A., not Boston.

Of course there will be all types of speculation and claims about his using while with the Sox. He is a turd.

[rician blast]

Not surprised, not disgusted, not really even dissapointed. Just confirms my suspicions.

 

I've been saying for a long, long time that PED use was much more widespread than most want to admit, and that I understand why these guys do what they do...and Manny is just another name that has been confirmed on my own list of PED users.

 

Now of course the talk will be how far back does this go? Considering he played with Albert Belle, one of the biggest juicers of the 90's (IMO), I'm guessing Belle wasn't the only one injecting himself in that Guardians clubhouse (from that partiicular time period and team I also suspect Thome, Grissom, Justice, Williams, Sorrento, Sexson, to name a few). Certainly could make one look at Manny's 1999 season stats a lot differently, his numbers that year were unf***ing real..

 

Of course he'll say he only did it this time, to heal from some nagging injury or deal with some medical problem, and he has no idea how he could have tested positive.

 

Make no mistake though...he got caught but he is far from the only one doing the stuff...just because a player doesn't test positive doesn't mean they're innocent. They're virtually all tainted now.