Well, well, well....The great "Mannywood" has finally crossed the proverbial "Manny being Manny" line. A 50 game suspension for using a banned substance. hGC, a female fertility drug was his drug of choice. This is used to start up the body's natural testosterone production after a cycle of steroids...among other things. I have to admit when I first heard the news this morning I was sure he got suspended for Weed. I mean, look at the guy and how he acts. I'm sure after hGC that is his second drug of choice! I think it's great. He whines his way out of Boston and then basically holds out almost all of spring training to get paid. What goes around comes around my friend. I'll be the first to admit, I was a Manny fan when he was with Boston. These last couple years though he has really gotten to show everyone who he really is. It will be interesting to see how the people out here in L.A. treat him when he comes back, or, better yet what they'll be saying today and the next week or so. I'll bet, being around L.A. sports fans for 7 yrs now, that they will just make excuses for him and keep wearing those stupid dreadloc wigs. It's just how "fans" are out here. I'll stop now before I go off on that subject...
Anyway, I think it's fantastic that this happened to Los Doyers! I feel bad for Joe Torre, but that's pretty much it. The thing with it is that Manny will only lose around $7-8 million. ONLY $7-8 million! That's what the Dodgers get for spending $45 million on a guy...yet another superstar talent on some stuff. We'll see how this all plays out but I'll bet there is going to be some kind of investigation by MLB as to why he was taking this. And where that will go who knows? My gut says that it leads to where everything else has led; that he has or had been taking steroids for a period of time. They said when the A-Rod info came out that there were over 100 other names. I say just throw all the names out to the world and call it a day. This one name at a time stuff is for the birds, and just isn't good for the game. Lets know who done it and move on!

On another note....I still state my case that the ONLY major homerun hitter in the past 15 years to not be named by the Mitchell report, Jose Canseco, MLB or any other investigation is Sammy Sosa. Say what you will about him, and plenty people have, but he has NEVER been named in anything. Even after he went to Congress with McGwire, Palmeiro and others, he is the only guy from that day not to be mentioned. Just a thought...

Booya!!