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Manny Makes MLB Look Good Again

May 9, 09 | 11:32 AM   byNeal Colgrass

It's time for the Los Angeles Dodgers and baseball fans everywhere to pucker up and embrace the backside of Manny Ramirez. The good he's done them by doping will make this week's teeth-gnashing and sports radio hollering seem silly by mid-summer. True, he broke the rules by taking a banned fertility drug. And his explanation that a doctor issued it to him for a "personal health issue" seemed just a little weak. "He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was okay to give me," Ramirez said —which only makes sense if he "wanted to get pregnant...
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