As you all know by now, Manny Ramirez has been suspended 50 games for testing positive for a banned substance. Here's what he had to say:
"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."
"I want to apologize to Mr. McCourt, Mrs. McCourt, Mr. Torre, my teammates, the Dodger organization, and to the Dodger fans. LA is a special place to me and I know everybody is disappointed. So am I. I'm sorry about this whole situation."
It turned out this drug has HCG, a woman's fertility drug that many steroid users take after their cycle to increase testosterone.
Is it just me, but at this point, nothing is shocking. Nothing is surprising, and it's truly a shame. This is just another black cloud over baseball.
I hate that people are defending him and blaming the doctor. I am sorry, but baseball players have been lying for so long, when someone semi-admits something, everyone is ok with it. I can't believe how many people believe this hogwash. Manny knew what he was taking. He says NOW its his responsibility? No, it was always his responsibility to know what he was putting into his body and its his doctors as well to know what is and isn't allowed. If Manny was prescribed a drug that he did not know was banned, he would be suing his doctor for $7 mil, the amount he will be losing because of this suspension. Manny is admitting he has a sexual problem and blaming is doctor for the rest. I am done believing these players when they give us so few details.
When will someone just admit to everything? Not A-Rod admitting to three years when it looks like it may be more. Not Giambi "apologizing", but never specifying what exactly he was apologizing for. Not Bonds and Sheff saying "I didn't know what I was taking". Take a tip from Andy Pettitte. Say you did something wrong, say you knew it at the time (because you all did), and move on. Odds are a new name will be released by the time your apology is over and everyone will forget about you.
One last point, everyone is calling for the other 103 names on that A-Rod list to be released, but I got a better idea. How bout we get a list of all the players who NEVER took steroids, that list would take a lot less time to read and will allow us to go back to focusing on the game of baseball.
Tonight's Game:
That was an amazing game by the way. C.C. looked like the pitcher we actually signed, A-Rod went deep on the 1st pitch of his season (already has more homers than Big Papi. HA!), and Damon kept his hot hitting up. Yea, Teixeira is still struggling and so is Jeter, but the team looked good tonight and the bullpen got the night off.
Hopefully Hughes can keep it going tomorrow and even if he can't, the Yankees should hit enough against Adam Eaton and his 7.00 ERA to get the win
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Michael nice blog as always and good point about suing his doctor. So who's going to be the next one caught? Doug Mientkiewicz perhaps? Only time will tell. Not only should his doctor be sued, but assuming Ramirez's story could somehow be true, did his doctor not know the rules about what Ramirez could take or just didn't care enough to let him know what he was taking? Either way players obviously need to know now exactly what they are taking to make sure it's legal. Enough of them as you said have been caught that they should never use the excuse I didn't know what I was taking. I have a hard time believing a DOCTOR would not tell him exactly what was in something. Keep em coming Mike.
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