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Manny Ramirez Suspended for Doping - Ex-Sox Slugger Accepts a 50-Game Penalty

Well, well, well... so your petulance was ON TOP of your basic dishonesty.

THIS from “MLBTradeRumors.com”:

12:39am: Tim Brown and Steve Henson of Yahoo say Manny tested positive for...drumroll...a sexual enhancer (not Viagra). Ramirez tested positive in Spring Training, and then again recently. Manny did not test positive for a steroid or human growth hormone.

Ahhhh!!! Funny, you say! So it was a “sexual enhancer” … and that would feed into the “MANNY BEING WEIRD” thing, which they (read: Scott Boras) want you to believe. THEN there's THIS later post:

1:30pm: ESPN's T.J. Quinn and Mark Fainaru-Wada say the drug was HCG - "a women's fertility drug typically used by steroid users to restart their body's natural testosterone production as they come off a steroid cycle. It is similar to Clomid, the drug Bonds, Giambi and others used as clients of BALCO."

Now THAT’S more like what I was expecting to read….

I always disliked the "non-team" attitude that was Manny. I also, of course, loved when he hit. He was an asset to the Red Sox whenever he actually put in the effort. But over the years he seemed to cause more and more strife and exhibited an increasing amount of selfish-ness. He was always a great subject for discussion - in the bar or on sports radio.

Then, last year - it became unbearable for even the Team - and he was gone. He played them in order to get out of his contract - which was disreputable. HE insisted on the 2 year options when he signed the damn thing, so he could have the biggest contrack in sports (those 2 years put him over what Kevin Garnet in the NBA had just signed). And then, at the end, with Scott Boras as his manager, he refused to honor his committment, and was finally delt away for the betterment of the team. All so he could be a free agent and demand MORE money. NOly it didn;t work out. After miraculously performing the best he's EVER performed for the last 1/3 of the season with LA, the economy dumped, and other teams actually took his boorish, unprofessional behavior into account. He finally signed back with the Dodgers - for about what he would have gotten if he'd just played out his options with the Red Sox. I thought that was a pleasure to see. Screw him. I know baseball is a business, but I hated that he wouldn't even fill out his obligations like a stand-up human being.

And then.... THIS.

So let me get this straight. So while you were being an ass-hole, you were ALSO being a cheater? You who had some of the most natural hitting talent EVER?

You piece of shit.

Thanks for letting your arrogance and pure selfishness help to ruin the game, dill weed.