Manny Suspended 50 Games
With a 21-8 start, including 13-0 at home, Dodger fans have probably been thinking, "this is too good to be true."
What could possibly go wrong this year?
Well, this!
about 3 years ago
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DAMN IT! DAMN IT!!
Son of a gun … so we get to replace the best right handed hitter since DiMaggio with someone who will no doubt lead the league in outs while he’s in. Marvelous.
by Seanny Rotten on May 7, 2009 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Nooooo!!!!
Slappy starting is worse!!!
"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
- Dennis Rodman
E; F, B, MR STEPHEN
E; F,B
Matt Murton status: Freed
Garrett Atkins status: Not Traded
Clint Hurdle status: Still Employed by the Rockies
Edit: F***, Beaten
I totally aced you posting this
I need to be made a columnist everywhere
Matt Murton status: Freed
Garrett Atkins status: Not Traded
Clint Hurdle status: Still Employed by the Rockies
by Andrew Martin on May 7, 2009 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm really just making a big deal over nothing
you know LOL SCOOP
Matt Murton status: Freed
Garrett Atkins status: Not Traded
Clint Hurdle status: Still Employed by the Rockies
by Andrew Martin on May 7, 2009 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions
WTF
I thought this was a strange April fools joke. I’m still not quite sure I believe it. I’m going to do some work and then come back and hope this all went away.
Brendan, I’ve got my yes on you buddy.
Last night was sooo coooool I was driving home wondering what bad news I’d find awaiting me. At least it waited until this morning.
The Times article mentions a buzz circulating around Dodger Stadium last night with the news. I heard nothing!!!
Sorry Phil.
Who knew pointing out the playoff odds was such a harmful thing? Not me.
by Brendan Scolari on May 7, 2009 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
According to Boras
Who spoke to Peter Gammons: It was not a steroid…. It was a medicine that he got from a doctor in Miami
Which doesnt sound good anyways….
I was JUST about to post this
Something he took for his knee problems ended up on the banned Substances List
See: Romero, JC
Matt Murton status: Freed
Garrett Atkins status: Not Traded
Clint Hurdle status: Still Employed by the Rockies
by Andrew Martin on May 7, 2009 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions
WOW - I can't believe it
We’ll be able to weather the storm not doubt, we are deep and should be at least .500 in the next 50 games.
Hopefully the medication will be something that doesn’t taint his legacy
HA!
regards to his legacy. Do you really think people will let this slide? Remember how much shit everyone gave Bonds? Especially on this site? Some of the biggest Bonds haters out there are into this blog.
Sure it sucks that we lose manny for fifty games, but we should stay true to ourselves and dish out the same criticism we’ve been tossing at Bonds. Manny cheats!!! Just like A-rod, clemens and most of baseball.
I imagine the 6.5 game lead you have on the rest of the division is as well.
We’ll work the next fifty games just to catch back up with you and then oh great, you get Manny back.
absolutely
"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
- Dennis Rodman
Starting now...
#!!# #! !~ @
"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
- Dennis Rodman
jesus
Loney cleanup? Has he had a HR yet??
by Seanny Rotten on May 7, 2009 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
The only exception
being that against a LHP they might break up Ethier and Loney so they aren’t back to back
Just when I was making lunch
And discovered I was out of hamburger buns. I’m not sure which bit of news saddens me more.
I think its safe to say
Our days of complaining that the Dodgers aren’t front page news on ESPN is over
I want to believe Boras
but he is a snake, and whenever he has a press coference, I do not know if I can
Funny quote by an emailer on ESPN Radio
“If Jose Canseco says the world is flat, we should probably believe him.”
Just when things were looking up
we take a slide down. Damn its been a bad two days for my favorite sports teams.
The Colts look like they are going to lose two of their best assistant coaches due to pension problems, now I wake up to this. Great
No panic trade. What would be the point in fifty games? What would you do with the guy you traded for? The only panic move would be to move Loney and prospects for a slugging 1st baseman.
I wasn't advocating it actually
Though I have in the past I’ll admit. My worries about Ned panicking is probably unfounded, since I’m sure he believes we can get by with Pierre. And I think he’s right, we can get by with Pierre (and bring up Paul or something.)
by Michael White on May 7, 2009 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Unbelievable
As soon as I think that one guy who is amazing in the MLB is doing it the real way, he tests positive.
Who the hell is next, honestly!?!?!?!
You have to hate losing more than you love winning.
Pujols is the last standing Pilar
and probably my favorite non-dodger in my life. If he goes down, I have a strike-year-like regression in my love for the sport
I thought only the low level guys where the people who got caught by the Major League Test. I thought all the superstars where doing such advanced stuff that the test would not get them.
Who’s the second biggest name to get busted by this test?
What do we call treating everyone equally when they are clearly not equal? Communism!
That, to me
lends credence to the “tainted medication” theory. Still, athletes should be more careful about the ingredients of these things
Did MLB come out and say it was tainted medication in the Romero Case?
I just need to be able to root for the guy when he comes back. I can deal with 50 games of slappy.
Now I have a question
Is this 50 game suspension set in stone? Can Manny/Dodgers challenge it? If does turn out to be a Romero Case he still does sit 50 because it was banned?
I hate waiting…. have a press conference already!
I think it's set in stone
the only relief for Manny is probably suing the doctor for his lost salary and/or potential lost future income
I never thought i would say
but I miss the old steroid policy.
What do we call treating everyone equally when they are clearly not equal? Communism!
For Tripon
Colletti confirmed that the Dodgers get no salary relief beyond 2009 if Andruw Jones signs another contract.
Does anyone know when the test was taken, was it this year?
What do we call treating everyone equally when they are clearly not equal? Communism!
Yes.
At least, that was my understanding based on Manny’s comments.
by Brendan Scolari on May 7, 2009 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Me too.
My phone kept going off, so I checked my text messages, and then bam!
by Brendan Scolari on May 7, 2009 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh. Ugh. Dan Ugh-LA.
1. How will Dodger fans react when manny returns? Dodger fans were notorious for booing Bonds at the height of the steroid scandal. Clearly, if Manny’s case is more of a banned medicine issue, then there won’t be as much hypocrisy involved?
2. So, our option is Pierre, then, with X-Paul as the 4th outfielder? What if Torre platoons left-field? Would that be a better option than the more obvious one?
3. Why issue the ban after the Dodgers’ historic night? I hate to be the one to say it, but this reeks of conspiracy, almost as if Bud or someone knew of the suspension and withheld it just so the record could get broken in an effort to cast some light on the MLB during the NBA/NHL playoffs . . .
Regarding Point 3
Did you hear anybody talking about the record? All I heard was about Artest, Fisher, Kobe etc. If anything launched MLB to the front of the conversation, its the test, not the record.
by Michael White on May 7, 2009 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Earlier in the morning
I heard about the record and how they sent Torre’s hat to the Hall of Fame. I feel asleep again and woke up to this nightmare.
What do we call treating everyone equally when they are clearly not equal? Communism!
a second opinion
first the backgound: Baseball added HCG to its list of banned substances last year.
OK now, here’s what a doctor said ,,,
"It’s not infrequently part of the mix of the poly-drug approach to doping," said Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the committee that determines the banned-substances list for the World Anti-Doping Agency. "It typically is used most when people are coming off a cycle to restore to normal biophysiological feedback mechanisms."
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