Not surprisingly, it's all nonsense that should have fans enforcing the laws of baseball more than enabling rewards for baseball’s newest fraud. A drug bust should force him to lose his theme Manny being Manny, and convert to MANNY BEING A DOPE.
Shouldn’t they have learned that he wasn’t a pure hitter after all, and that he wasn’t precisely a clean reinforcement for the Los Angeles Dodgers in renewing culture? Without Manny’s fraudulent bat the Dodgers are still a pure team, when people had the inclination they would corrode.
But it harmonized the team and regenerated confidence as Ramirez disassembled, never addressing the fans or apologizing, and he still owes a sincere admission before granted an award for erroneous behavior.
In the wake of the juice raid, Ramirez was identified as a doper, infractions that revealed him failing a drug test. A bad scandal is worth all criticism at Capital Hill instead of praise, and electing an unfaithful cheater onto the All-Star ballots, let alone the game.
Of late, news of Ramirez is staggering, repulsive, outrageous and ignominious, especially when he earns undeserving votes into the All-Star Game. By now, you would think people in general aren’t so naïve or in denial when an idolized player is caught for violating and ruining the game.
Because of Manny and his other buddies who are involved in steroid scandals, baseball is now the Shame Game, an untruthful game many should be reluctant on attending or watching. Meanwhile, since he was suspended for 50 games, an inglorious Ramirez refused to address fans yet they still advocate cheating when none of it is okay and sets poor examples in our society.
People despise Alex Rodriguez more than they have Ramirez. But from a rational viewpoint, it should be mutual equalities, though A-Rod’s revelations faded out of tabloids after Ramirez’s name was unveiled.
Still, even though we don’t advocate A-Rod’s anonymous steroid use, he is owed some credit for addressing the world on national television, confessing and apologizing to fans that he disappointed. In respect, this was the least Ramirez could have done, but failed to reach out to disgruntled fans who still admires him.
Why do you admire a cheater, someone who ruined integrity?
Only detail I could give you, unlike Ramirez's silence to speak on synthetic stupidity, is that people are still defending him greatly, refusing to dismiss the reality of Ramirez getting caught for depravity and misdeeds because it was a testosterone prescribed by a doctor.
Sorry, but I don’t buy into the sympathy card, a want-somebody-to-feel-sorry modus that players have tried pulling over Congress and fans. And apparently, Ramirez has pulled one over fans who still encourages cheating.
He has been allowed more credit and rarely has been criticized. He has been supported more and not disregarded, as fans should be ripping him until he talks and admits to sorrow and absurdity. Instead the fans are voting for him after backstabbing them, denying Manny’s troubles to give him benefit of the doubt.
It is a shame fans are voting for America’s disgrace and treating him as if he was accused of crime whether than committing crime, currently a leading candidate to start as the NL All-Star in left field. Results have Philly fans ticked off, leaving out stellar outfielder Raul Ibanez, who is more worthy than Ramirez in his first season with the Phillies.
In fairness, fans shouldn’t downplay the fact that he’s much-deserving. In the AL ballot, Jason Bay is a high vote-getter, the guru outfielder who replaced Ramirez in Boston. Since making a transition to a higher marketed franchise, where national attention attracts, Bay earned loyalty from the fans and became the everyday left-fielder.
He has adapted to the Green Monster, emerging into a favorite after Manny turned his back and surrendered as a Red Sox, causing commotion on a disoriented franchise in Boston, which forced John Henry and Theo Epstein to seek other options. They looked in a new direction, and finally agreed on a deal to acquire Bay in a three-way deal.
Ever since, Beantown has became accustomed to the superb outfielder, satisfied with his work ethnic and solid batting power, he has been discussed as a potential starting outfielder.
That’s why it's impossible to place Ramirez in the same conversations as Bay, especially if he was still playing in the American League, of course, where in likelihood discontent fans wouldn’t fill in Ramirez’s name as a top candidate, upset over the way the marriage ended so distastefully in Boston.
Earlier this week when the first balloting was released for the All-Star Game, Ramirez’s name stood out surprisingly, reminding us it’s a popularity contest more than a rewarding contest. And it reminded us it’s a contest of frauds more than it’s a contest of worthiness.
But surprisingly, you voted in a fraud as Ramirez recently dropped to the fifth spot in vote-getters, wondering if the Dodgers fans are that naïve to fill up ballot boxes with a juicer's name earning recognition without deserving player’s names being mentioned, all having superb seasons, such as Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun, Philadelphia’s Ibanez, Chicago Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano and Milwaukee’s Mike Cameron. They are players with splendid seasons.
They are all having All-Star seasons, and have played more games than Ramirez, who is still serving the rest of his 50-game suspension, which means he hasn’t played nearly enough games to be All-Star eligible. But the fans clearly are voting, satisfied to watch a scam by allowing a betrayer.
Maybe it’s California love.
Well, I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles. And he doesn’t get my vote.
By enabling Ramirez isn’t a punishment, but an acknowledgement that it’s permissive to lie and cheat, defacing the game that once was our pastime, a tradition like no other. But now, a ritual is dismantled, smeared as the eye black worn on the faces to prevent blind spots from the sun that has vanished behind the darken clouds overshadowing baseball in a negative way.
Ramirez is the epitome of a little boy who does something mischievous, but always gets away with his unacceptable behavior. The Majors and fans are letting Ramirez off too freely, which divulges misconduct is acceptable.
There’s only one option for learning a valuable lesson by serving your time and worrying about saving a crippled legacy. Of course, after his juicing episode, Mannywood is Shamewood and will never earn back its moral nickname.
Shame on you fans.
