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There was a brief moment, however fleeting, when Manny Ramirez’s image appeared to have undergone a Ty Pennington-like makeover. After his lackadaisical play got him traded away from a fed-up Red Sox club in 2008, the Dominican single-handedly carried the Dodgers to the playoffs in two of the most dominant months baseball has ever seen.
But it turns out that stretch was the last thing from a resurrection. No, that was Ramirez’s legacy taking one last wind sprint before passing out on the street. Since then, he was suspended 50 games for steroids he never manned up to taking, then 100 more games for another banned substance violation, this one prompting his retirement.
Not once has he attempted to show remorse or even absorb a morsel of responsibility for his actions, which makes it impossibly hard to offer him the benefit of the doubt after a this recent domestic run-in with his wife.
