Manny Ramirez suspended 50 games for performance enhancing drugs!

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

How will Red Sox fans react if it turns out Manny wasn't even clean in 2004?

I would think that they'd deflect, just like most fans would do. They say something like "Manny might not have been clean in 2004, but neither was Player-X on the the Marlins in 2003, or Player-Y on The Angels in 2002..." I don't think it's really a vaild excuse but I can understand why they would make it.

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

I would think that they'd deflect, just like most fans would do. They say something like "Manny might not have been clean in 2004, but neither was Player-X on the the Marlins in 2003, or Player-Y on The Angels in 2002..." I don't think it's really a vaild excuse but I can understand why they would make it.

It is a valid excuse. Although oddly enough, the Sox were either the only team, or one of the only teams to not have a player implicated in the mitchell report.