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...Angeles Dodgers. In March, while the rest of baseball balked at the steep demands of Manny Ramirez during an off-season recession, you inked the perplexing power hitter to a two-year, $45 million guaranteed contract. Maybe those other teams suspected what was coming: just two months after Ramirez re-signed with the Dodgers, he received a 50-day suspension for using a banned performance-enhancing substance...
...deal with the media circus when Manny returns - just ask the San Francisco Giants, who a few years ago had Barry Bonds on the roster, how the constant scrutiny can distract a team. There will be taunting on the road. The fans will be wielding some nasty signs: Ramirez reportedly may claim that he took a banned drug called human chorionic gonadotropin to cure erectile dysfunction (the female fertility drug also happens to elevate testosterone levels, which get drained by, coincidentally, steroid use). "Manny Being Mini," one clever columnist has already written. Maybe you just want to send a message...
...slightest. Manny will run hard in the outfield before the Dodgers ever see a rebate. Yes, the Dodgers don't have to pay Ramirez during his suspension, which will cost him some $8 million in salary. But they were never permitted to add a contract clause giving the team the right to void the deal if, say, Ramirez used performance-enhancing drugs. Section 8.L of Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Agreement, a testing and penalty program collectively bargained between the players and owners, states: "All authority to discipline Players for violations of the Program shall repose with...
...other words, the penalty for a first-time drug cheat is clearly stated out in the agreement: 50 games. The Dodgers cannot go out and fire Ramirez on top of that. "This is all prearranged by Major League Baseball and the Players' Association," says Roger I. Abrams, a sports law expert at Northeastern University...
...Ramirez, Manny •50-game suspension of after banned substance is found in the body...