Report: Manny tests positive for PED's

[Xx-CHURCHY-xX]

While it's still just a report and hasn't been confirmed yet, WTF! Baseball has been tainted and FUCKED for life!

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4148907

 

Major League Baseball is expected to announce Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended for 50 games, The Los Angeles Times is reporting.

 

Ramirez's suspension is expected to be announced Thursday, The Times said.

 

Triple-A outfielder Xavier Paul has been told by the Dodgers that he will be promoted later today, according to The Times.

 

Scott Boras and Manny Ramirez both claim it was not a performance-enhancing drug or steroid, but a medication he received from his doctor for personal use. Really?

 

Manny will lose 7.7 million dollars as he won't be paid during his suspension.

[o-BacklasH-o]

Beat me to it Churchy, what a joke. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The only clean slugger from the 90's era is/was Griffey.

[[-VR-] Tool_Minion]

HA HA HA HA HA!!!

[Xx-CHURCHY-xX]

BacklasH ]

Beat me to it Churchy, what a joke. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The only clean slugger from the 90's era is/was Griffey.

I agree 100%. Griffey was always my favorite player growing up and will always be my favorite. The day he comes clean and says he did it, I'll commit suicide.

 

Baseball has gone to shit and it's becoming something of an entertainment business. It's terrible. I may have to look into liking Hockey :'(

[o-BacklasH-o]

Griffey is clean, I will stop watching baseball period if he was ever tainted. It's time to put these other 90's sluggers on the back burner and let guys like Pujols, Hamilton (I know he had the drug addiction, but nothing to do with roids), Braun, Howard, Utley, Soriano, etc be the face of baseball.

[neo-x]

LMAO...

 

I believe they call this.. Karma

 

 

That fucker should go fuck himself IMO... that egotistical bastard...

 

(and no im not a redsox fan who now hates manny.. I just think that the guy is an awful human being)

[Prane]

Definitely disappointing to hear. As much of an idiot Manny can be sometimes i always liked his care-free attitude and his ability to make the game fun but after this I lost any respect I still had for the guy. Like Backlash said its time to look to the future. Pujols is the best hitter in the game today and I love to watch him play even though I despise the Cardinals as a Cubs fan. My favorite young untainted player is Joe Mauer, he is the reincarnation of the Iron Horse.

[Chili327]

:'(

[CpDude05]

50 Games, oh my GOSH!!!!

 

This is the first i have heard about it today. I couldn't believe it.

[meauxpack]

per Mark Fainaru-Wada of ESPN:

 

Manny tested positive for hCG, a fertility drug for women that can be used to restart testosterone production after a steroid cycle.

 

I can totally see why an upstanding doctor would prescribe that to a 36 year old man

[BA-ZERK]

 

 

Source: Ramirez’s substance a sexual enhancer

By Tim Brown and Steve Henson

2 hours, 50 minutes ago

 

Buzz up!58 votes PrintLOS ANGELES – 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.â€

 

At least not on the baseball diamond. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the drug was prescribed to address Ramirez’s erectile dysfunction. (Editors Note: )

 

However, two sources said the substance Ramirez tested positive for a gonadotropin. Major League baseball’s list of banned substances includes the gonadotropins LH and HCG, which are most commonly used by women as fertility drugs. They also can be used to trigger testosterone production. Testosterone is depleted by steroid use, and low testosterone can cause erectile dysfunction.

 

“Testosterone and similar drugs are effective for erectile dysfunction in that they jazz up your sex drive,†said Charles Yesalis, a professor at Penn State who has testified before Congress on issues of performance-enhancing drugs. “But far more clinicians accept that affect with Viagra and Cialis. It’s hard for me to understand if it was erectile dysfunction why they would use it.â€

 

 

Ramirez tested positive for the substance during spring training, then was administered a second test more recently, and it also was positive. Major League Baseball notified Ramirez of the second positive test after Wednesday night’s Dodgers victory over the Washington Nationals. Ramirez admitted to having taken the substance and declined to appeal. His 50-game suspension begins today.

 

“The substance is not a steroid and it is not human-growth hormone,†the source said.

 

Ramirez, the source said, acquired the substance through a prescription from a doctor in Miami for his medical condition. The source intimated that Ramirez might bring legal action against the physician.

 

Ramirez released the following statement Thursday morning: “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.

 

The Dodgers, who have won a Major League record 13 consecutive home games to start the season, will be without Ramirez until July 3. Outfielder Xavier Paul was promoted from triple-A to take Ramirez’s place on the roster. The suspension will cost Ramirez close to $8 million in lost wages.

 

 

Drugs or hormones that increase testosterone production often show up on banned lists.

[o-BacklasH-o]

As much as it pains me to say this.........Canseco was right once again. I'll give him one thing, the guy knows his roids and roid abusers...

[Peebrain]

HAHAHAHAHHAHA! I love baseball and I find all this funny. Why can't people learn to just come clean. Have they not seen that the people that come clean get to continue to play like A Rod and Giambi and people who fight it get fucking annihilated in court like Barry fucking Bonds. (God i hate that guy, but i digress.) I hate to say it but baseball and steroids will always be one. As the drug tests get better, different drugs will be discover/made to get around them. All those young slugger you guys say are clean, i will bet my life that half of them will be found using steroids before they end their career.

 

LOL Manny... LOL...

[BA-ZERK]

REALLY It shouldnt suprise you if anyone is USING ......But then they just counter them selves out.......SO JUST PLAYBALL ;D