Manny Ramirez apologized today to his fans and his teammates but conveniently forgot to apologize to the sport and for taking steroids. But at least he apologized, while a sport that continues to think that a 50-GAME suspension for taking steroids is a deterrent, goes about its business with that feeble punishment still intact.

Ramirez is back on the field tonight, all is forgiven and he can continue to play. He only tested positive three months ago and is back hitting home runs, while other sports, such as cycling these coming three weeks, will be in the news because of its drug cheats who at least get a full two-year punishment for a first offence.

I love Baseball and I continue to go to Blue Jays games as often as I can, but I will always be a little bitter towards its efforts to beat the scandal of performance enhancing drugs while their punishment is so pathetic. I don’t know the in’s and out’s of Baseball politics but while sports like cycling and athletics have shown that a two-year ban doesn’t even deter athletes from cheating and hoping to get away with it then a meesly 50-game ban certainly wont.

Ramirez is back but he won’t be the last player to get caught, take a few months in the sun and come back again the same season!

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