Mannyville

The planet is divided into two kinds of people - those that think they're going to get caught for their dastardly deeds and those that don't. I'm in one camp; Manny Ramirez is in the other. The thing about the latter group is that you can call them, issue warnings, send emails and telegrams, yet they will go on their merry way and step in every foxhole they have dug for themselves. And so it was with Manny Ramirez.

If I were a major league baseball player or any other sports figure, then I would have had the following conversation with my doctor:

Doc: I'm going to prescribe some HCG pills for you. Take one in the morning and two at night.

Manny: Are there any side effects?

Doc: Let's just say that your uniform may fit tighter and you may develop some growth spurts, but other than that, no.

End of conversation. Ramirez claims that he didn't know what was in those funny little pills, though he knew the rules of the game and he knew the consequences, but he got too pumped up, so he thought the rules didn't apply to him, but they did, which they well should have.