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Major League Baseball announced Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for violating its drug policy.

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    Ramirez LA is a special place to me and I know everybody is disappointed. So am I. I'm sorry about this whole situation.

    †-- Manny Ramirez

The commissioner's office didn't announce the specific violation by Ramirez, but in a statement Thursday provided by Major League Baseball, Ramirez attributed the violation to medication he had been prescribed by a doctor.

"Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was OK to give me," Ramirez said. "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. I want to apologize to [Dodgers owner Frank] McCourt, Mrs. McCourt, [manager Joe] Torre, my teammates, the Dodger organization, and to the Dodger fans. LA is a special place to me and I know everybody is disappointed. So am I. I'm sorry about this whole situation."

After consultation with the Players' Association and his personal representatives, Ramirez waived his right to challenge the suspension. He will lose nearly $8 million of his $25 million salary.

Ramirez's test result was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

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I was listening to Mike and Mike this morning on the way to work and they brought up the fact that the punishment isn't serve enough.  They talked about a punishment similar to that of track and field and the olympics.  If you are caught then all records are stripped and you are banned for 2 years.  Should this be done in baseball? 

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CHEATER!!!

WOW!!! this coming from someone who uses ty cobb as his screen name, cobbs picture, and quotes ty cobb...  :o

Cobb wasn't a cheater.  He was a mean son of a gun, but not a cheater.  Manny, on the other hand, is a cheater!!!

soooo sharpening your spikes and sliding feet high isnt cheating???

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Not at all.  That's called "spiking".  Middle infielder's get spiked all the time.  Spiking is not banned from the game.  What Manny did is against the rules of the game.  He's a cheater.

correct, infielders get spiked, but i wouldnt say all of the time. what cobb did was absolutely against the rules! he SHARPENED his spikes and went in high on the middle infielders to steal bases. they knew what he would do and they wouldnt apply the tag! that my good man is CHEATING. now i wonder how many stolenbases he would have had he not done that??

the only difference is manny chose to hurt himself to be better, cobb chose to hurt others!

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For the last time, spiking an infielder is not against the rules. (Espically back in the time when Cobb played)  Spiking an infielder, to break up a play, is just like hitting a batter after your batter has been hit.  It's just part of the game.  Has the game changed?  Of course, it has changed.  The hitters now days get mad if the ball is 2 inches inside and I'm sure a runner would be thrown out of a game if they went in spikes high like Cobb did.  The difference is, it was not against the rules when Cobb played.  Manny knew the rules and cheated anyway.  How many stolen bases would Cobb have if he didn't slide this way?  I have no clue.  How many homeruns, no, how many hits would Manny have if he didn't cheat? 

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For the last time, spiking an infielder is not against the rules. (Espically back in the time when Cobb played)  Spiking an infielder, to break up a play, is just like hitting a batter after your batter has been hit.  It's just part of the game.  Has the game changed?  Of course, it has changed.  The hitters now days get mad if the ball is 2 inches inside and I'm sure a runner would be thrown out of a game if they went in spikes high like Cobb did.  The difference is, it was not against the rules when Cobb played.  Manny knew the rules and cheated anyway.  How many stolen bases would Cobb have if he didn't slide this way?  I have no clue.  How many homeruns, no, how many hits would Manny have if he didn't cheat? 

You go in hard but you DO NOT go in spikes high especially sharpened spikes high with the intent of hurting another player! Ive read numerous articles concerning Cobb and his spikes and I have yet to read one that doesnt say hes a cheat! Against the rules or not he CHEATED! Heres a few more for ya--Corked bats, Vaseline on the baseball, sharpening spikes, excessive pine tar, teams that cut the field grass or sculpt the baselines a certain way to give their speedier players an advantage or take away speed of another team, thumbtacks in the 3rd baseman’s glove to nick up the baseball, catchers with larger mitts to appear to catch the ball over the plate, sign stealing or tipping, you name it, players and coaches have been doing it!

Cheating is Cheating...

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To deal with the Cobb issue he liked to win classless or not he was a stud. If a infielder was smart he would swipe the tag and not hold it down. Slap him across the face with the tag and show him your not scared. Back to Manny he used fertility drugs which are used to produce tesosterone after the use of steroids bc they produce it for you and. This drug gets your body back to creating it and repairs the body. I would make it a yr suspension and on a repeated offense banned for life. If you ban Rose you gotta ban these cheats for life.

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