Manny Ramirez To Be Suspended 50 Games For Positive Drug Test

[Blue_Tires]

Source: WPXI-TV

Los Angeles, CA -- (Sports Network) - Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez has reportedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Ramirez is expected to attribute the positive test to medication received from a doctor.

The suspension is expected to begin Thursday. If so, Ramirez won't be eligible to return until July 3.

More to follow.

Read more: http://www.wpxi.com/sports/19395481/detail.html

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wow...when you absolutely positively gotta have a story to knock Favre off the sports news cycle...

and it will KILL people to admit it, but Canseco was right again...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Just Manny being suspended.

[flvegan]

2. Oh, brother.

*facepalm*

Manny, you're an idiot. Thanks Dodgers for taking him off the Red Sox hands.

[rocktivity]

11. One facepalm, coming right up!

rocktivity

[Blue_Tires]

3. full story from L.A. Times

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

Manny is going to say it was a legal (but banned by MLB) prescription from a legit doctor for an ongoing health condition....

[meegbear]

4. Self-delete

[Union Yes]

5. Lets build more taxpayer funded gazillion dollar stadiums.

These players are so deserving.

Better to shut schools and layoff police and FF or let the infrastructure crumble.

:sarcasm:

It pisses me off to no end that we choose to build stadiums instead of schools ect.

[Union Yes]

6. Manny is paid 24 MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR!

[joeybee12]

7. He won't get paid through the suspension...loses about $7 million...

...I'd like Scott Boras to lose his cut of that $7 million.

[MissMillie]

8. I've loved the guy for years.... my heart is broken

All through the "Manny being Manny" stuff, all I could think of is that when push came to shove, he did what we paid him to do. When he was loving what he was doing, he was so fun to watch. I wish more players remembered to enjoy the game for the sake of the game.... and now it turns out that even Manny doesn't.

He left the Sox and we now have Jason Bay, who is turning out to be one hell of a clutch hitter.

And now LA will be without Manny for 1/3 of the season while the Sox ended up with one hell of a clutch hitter.

[Auggie]

9. Wow. Hard to believe any player would knowingly do this considering

the awareness of testing, etc.. This IS either a mistake or Manny Ramirez is really, really stupid.

[mainegreen]

10. Oh, what a surprise!

[pampango]

12. Source: Ramirez’s substance a sexual enhancer

"A source close to Manny Ramirez(notes) said Thursday that the illegal substance for which the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger tested positive was not “an agent customarily used for performance enhancing.”

At least not on the baseball diamond . The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the substance is supposed to boost sex drive. It is not Viagra, but a substance that treats the cause rather providing a temporary boost in sexual performance, the source said.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ys-ramirezsuspension050709&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[flvegan]

13. Source: enhancer was hCG.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=1256

Manny, Manny, Manny. Say it ain't so.

[belpejic]

14. Pujols is next (n/t)