Manny Ramirez suspended for using performance enhancing substances

[Koubs]

Another big name guy gets caught:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...=.jsp&c_id=mlb


Ramirez -- an 12-time All-Star who immediately became the face of the Dodgers franchise upon his acquisition last summer -- is the biggest name player to be issued a 50-game suspension under the MLB's more stringent drug policy that was adopted in 2006.

According to the drug policy, a player receives a 50-game suspension for a first positive drug test, a 100-game suspension for a second positive test and a lifetime ban for a third positive test. The suspensions are without pay.
Ramirez re-signed with the Dodgers as a free agent this spring to a two-year contract that was to pay him $25 million.

[NPCKnight]

HCG lol

[charlie]

It's so sad. What a needless suspension.
We as fans expect the highest degree of performance possible from professional athletes, and they expect the same from themselves. But when they try to achieve that, they are punished. Steroids are just one tool out of many that athletes use to perform at the highest level, but right now it's in vogue to blame steroids, so we get stupid suspensions like this.

Manny loses 50 games pay, the Dodgers lose a star player for 50 games, and the fans don't get to watch him for 50 games. Everyone loses. All this "for the children."