Why are we still cheering Manny Ramierez yet still punishing Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire?
Fact: Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire were never suspended by Major League Baseball for violating any illegal substance policies. Fact: Manny Ramirez was suspended by Major League Baseball for 50 games in 2009 for violating its illegal substance policy (1st created back in 2005). If you recall back in 1995, Major League Baseball was at its perhaps lowest point since the Black Sox Scandal from the early 1920’s. A world series had just been canceled due to a player’s strike, upsetting many fans at denying them an event as big any other sporting event in the world. At that time, baseball was looking for anything to help bring the fans back to the ballpark. Enter Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. By engaging on an epic Home Run battle in 1996, to break a 35 year old home run record, these players helped bring baseball to the forefront. Steroids or performance enhancing supplements were nowhere to be discussed, nor really cared about. That is until “andro” was discovered in the locker of McGwire. A
