Oh Manny

So to anyone who thought this day would never come, it serves you right for being so naive. Manny Ramirez has officially been suspended for using performance enhancing drugs. The report from T.J. Quinn and Mark Fainaru-Wada is that he was using a drug called HCG, a women's fertility drug, and did not actually test positive, but evidence was found of use, which was enough to suspend him for 50 games. Ramirez is the first major player for the Red Sox to have his name brought up in the PED discussion(and no, Roger Clemens doesn't count, because most Boston fans disowned him, but you can read more about that snake here http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/note.php?note_id=2333019990 and may I remind you this was before the Mitchell Report). With the proclivity of steroid and HGH use in the MLB before the more stringent rules were put in place, it was only a matter of time before the Red Sox had their championships shrowded in doubt. The rapid decline of some many of their big pieces since that time only helps further the belief that they were all juicing.

The biggest problem with this is that most of these guys should have been outed in the Mitchell Report for their steroid use. The biggest Red Sox name in the report was Mo Vaughn, who hasn't been relevant since 1998. You may ask yourself, why is he the biggest Boston player on that report? The reason is simple, Senator George Mitchell has a stake in the Red Sox, and outing any of his own World Series winning players would have tarnished their championship. This is not something I just now realized. Ever since the report came out full of Yankees, Blue Jays, and Orioles, it was no real secret that there was another agenda besides cleaning up baseball. I'm usually not a conspiracy theorist, but in this case it just makes so much sense. Why else would there be no Big Papi, Manny Ramirez, Nomar Garciaparra, or any other magically better Red Sox player from those years leading up to their World Series titles? This day is just one of many more to come.