Why is Dodger Manny Ramirez considered a prodigal son?
When Manny Ramirez first walks to the plate around 7:15 Thursday in the first inning of the Dodgers game against the Houston Astros, the game is going to come to a stop for a minute. Dodger fans will welcome back Manny Ramirez with such thunderous applause that he will be forced to take a step back out of the batters box and acknowledge the crowd. Dodger fans are welcoming Manny back as the prodigal son — all is forgiven. And they want him to know that. Friday morning (if not before) there will be a self-righteous column in the Los Angeles Times, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth wherever Bob Costas is sipping his soy latte — how could the Dodger fans welcome back a cheater like this? Of all people, the worst commissioner in sports — Bud Selig — gets it. “It’s an interesting reaction because I think it surprises a log of people, the positiveness of it,” Selig said during the All Star Game festivities. “But you always get back to the fans: They want their team to win, And
When Manny Ramirez first walks to the plate around 7:15 Thursday in the first inning of the Dodgers game against the Houston Astros, the game is going to come to a stop for a minute. Dodger fans will welcome back Manny Ramirez with such thunderous applause that he will be forced to take a step back out of the batters box and acknowledge the crowd. Dodger fans are welcoming Manny back as the prodigal son — all is forgiven. And they want him to know that. Friday morning (if not before) there will be a self-righteous column in the Los Angeles Times, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth wherever Bob Costas is sipping his soy latte — how could the Dodger fans welcome back a cheater like this? Of all people, the worst commissioner in sports — Bud Selig — gets it. “It’s an interesting reaction because I think it surprises a log of people, the positiveness of it,” Selig said during the All Star Game festivities. “But you always get back to the fans: They want their team to win, And
Testing by Major League Baseball showed that Ramirez had testosterone in his body that was not natural and came from an artificial source, two people with knowledge of the case told ESPN’s Mark Fainaru-Wada and T.J. Quinn. The sources said that in addition to the artificial testosterone, Ramirez was identified as using the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. The sources said Ramirez was suspended for using hCG because baseball had documentation to prove his use of the drug. A Major League Baseball source said Ramirez’s representatives indicated they would fight a suspension for using artificial testosterone. Sources: www.espn.
