It is a dark time for Major League Baseball as yet another great has fallen to a steroid and performance enhancing drug scandal. 

Say it ain’t so Manny! Not you too!

The only thing that kept those few of us who still watch baseball happy is the fact that there were people out there who were legitmate.

People may not have liked Manny Ramirez, but they certainly respected him because he didn’t spoil the sanctity of the sport. 

Emphasis on the past tense there as it was recently commented that Ramirez had traces of a woman’s fertility drug called HCG in his urine, an offense for which he received a 50-game suspension. 

That really, REALLY sucks for baseball. A truly great, enjoyable and unique player is now disgraced. 

Major League Baseball is now looking more like a drug enduced rock and roll tour that has 162 concerts in a single year, rather than a professional sport.

Ramirez blamed his physician after he prescribed Ramirez the illegal medication. 

Have some class Manny, admit you made the mistake.  You did not go through the proper steps to ensure the safety of the drug and now you have disgraced yourself and baseball. 

Why has America’s pastime been plagued with these dopers?

It is downright sad that the one player, Alex Rodriguez, who can break Barry Bonds’ home run record, got caught for steroids. 

He is no better than Bonds in my mind.  Now this, the one player who single handedly makes people turn on the channel to watch, gets suspended.  

Where have all the good men gone?  Why can’t there be another Hank Aaron?

I think our last hope for a legitimate home run record in our lifetimes is Albert Pujols.

Lets just pray he is not on the juice. Come on Pujols, don’t let us down.