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2009
Breaking News: Manny Ramirez Suspended For Banned Substance
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The suspension will cost Ramirez $7.7 million, or roughly 31% of his $25-million salary. Players in violation of baseball’s drug policy are not paid during suspensions.Ramirez is expected to attribute the test results to medication received from a doctor for a personal medical issue, according to a source familiar with matter but not authorized to speak publicly.
The Dodgers informed triple-A outfielder Xavier Paul this morning that he was being promoted to Los Angeles.
Ramirez joins A-Rod as the two biggest stars who have been implicated with banned substances.
Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti and Manager Joe Torre said they were unaware of any failed test or pending suspension.
Ramirez leads the Dodgers in batting average (.348), on-base percentage (.492) and slugging percentage (.641), and he is tied for the team lead in home runs with six.
He signed a two-year, $45-million contract with the Dodgers in March, with the first year guaranteed at $25 million and the second year at his option at $20 million.
Could you imagine if the Mets had signed him?
About the Author: Joe DeCaro
Went to my first Mets game, a Mayors Trophy game at Shea, in '73. We beat the Yankees 8-4 and I was hooked. I marched in two Banner Day parades, and before the Grand Slam single, there was the "Hendu Can Do" grand slam - I was there. I've collected Mets memorabilia all my life and started Mets Merized Online to feed my addiction.
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OMG…..
Get Manny!
Not!
OMG!!!!!!!!
Thank you Omar, and thank you Fred Wilpon for being so cheap!
WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE GET MANNY POSTERS NOW!!!!! HA HA HA!!!
Like you knew!
We knew that Manny was destructive in many ways!
This will cruch the Dodgers who were off to an incredible start. They may still be able to hang in there until Manny returns, but winning the division is no longer the slam dunk it was looking like. I’m not surprised by this, but I am disappointed.
You win some, you lose some. Put this one in the win column for the cheap skate Wilpons.
I remember being one of the few posters who emphatically did not want Manny.
Oh, how sweet is the Wilpon’s prudence!!!!
P.S.: One more time, Manny is a narcissistic jerk!!
Arod has not been suspended by anyone…by the way
I was most definitely a Manny pusher. The majority of my thoughts consisted of Manny before the season, so much so that I still thought like that even after he went back with L.A.
Thank God I didn’t get what I wanted.
I must admit though, I didn’t see this one coming. It never even crossed my mind that ManRam could be on the juice.
For some athletes, winning is everything — and they’ll do anything to be the strongest, the fastest, and the best. Instead of old-fashioned hard work and training, some athletes are turning to performance enhancing substances to boost athletic performance, ward off fatigue, and enhance their physical appearance. Performance enhancing substances are taken to increase muscle mass and strength, reduce weight, and hide the use of other illegal substances.
So what’s the problem with taking performance enhancing substances?
Negative side effects, that’s what. Whether they’re over-the-counter or illegal, performance enhancing substances can take their toll on a developing body, which is why it’s especially dangerous for teen athletes to experiment with these substances.
According to Partnership For A Drug Free America Performance enhancing substances are not limited to just anabolic androgenic steroids. Other performance enhancing substances include, Stimulants such as Amphetamines and Ephedrine, Human Growth Hormone (“HGH”) and testosterone among others.
There are many risks associated with using any of these substances. First and foremost, there are dangerous short and long-term side effects. Whether a performance enhancing substance is purchased over-the-counter or illegally is irrelevant; their toll on the body could be deadly. Other consequences of using performance enhancing substances include sanctions from sports governing bodies, loss of past awards and titles, being banned from participating in your sport, and facing public shame and humiliation from being labeled a cheater.
Performance enhancing substances are especially dangerous for teens because their bodies are still developing. Teens who choose to use performance enhancing substances might see changes in their physical appearance, but they may also experience severe physical side effects like stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, muscle cramps, and mood swings. Use of many performance enhancing substances can also lead to serious kidney, liver, and heart problems.
If a teenager is considering whether or not to abuse a performance enhancing substance, it is important to remember the value in healthy competition. Winning isn’t everything, especially when you are risking your health and reputation to get ahead. Even if you’re using a legal performance enhancing substance, you are still putting your health and body at risk. Parents should know the facts about performance enhancing substances so that they can have an educated conversation with their teen about the dangers and consequences of using these substances.
“The Partnership for a Drug-Free America” and Major League Baseball are proud to introduce a new online resource to educate teens about the dangers of steroids and other performance enhancing substances and encourage them to “Play Healthy.” In addition to comprehensive information about the risks of performance enhancing substances, the site provides parents, caregivers and coaches with the tools to communicate with teens and drive home the message that it’s not worth risking their health to get ahead in sports.
Parents and coaches can download a free Talk Kit to help guide conversations about the value of healthy competition among young athletes, and a new blog, Coaches Corner, offers a place to connect with others on this important health issue.
Visit http://www.dictionaryfordads.com and learn how to keep the teens in your life on the healthy track and prevent drug abuse.
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The Impact Of Alcohol And Drugs On The Family
Families where alcohol or drug addiction is present are emotionally and sometimes physically painful to live in. All members of a family where alcohol or drug addiction is present in the family system are traumatized to varying degrees by the addiction and the extreme emotional, psychological and behavioral swings which characterize the family system when addiction is present. This is true no matter if it is a parent, teen or grandparent that is abusing drugs and alcohol in the family system.
Residing in a family system where one of the members is abusing drugs or alcohol exposes all family members to an extreme and unusual amount of stress fear, and anxiety. Everyday normal family routines are constantly being interrupted by unexpected and frightening experiences. What is communicated in the addicted family system often does not reflect what family members really sense, do, promise or feel. However, members communicate content in order to de-escalate a situation, pretnd to be somewhat functioning infront of third parties or decrease tension with family members. The members of an addicted family basically live moment to moment always prepared to defend and disguise.
The identified alcohol/drug abuser as well as all family members deny and manipulate any and all situations and control for consequences of the addiction . All members have unrealistic hopes that the family will change or at least get better on its own. The family members adapt to this dysfuctional sysstem to maintain false dignity and some sense of family order. This is all in spite of the reality that the family system is being severely impacted and destroyed by alcohol and or drug abuse.
All of the members of the addicted family system become absorbed by the progressive nature of the drug and/or alcohol abuse and its associated behaviors. The family system and their ability to function also becomes progressively more and more out of control and dysfunctional. As a result of this dynamic family members experience extreme levels of denial, anger, fear, stress, blame and hopelessness. Ironically minimal tasks or functions of the family system become paramount and the more important issues such as educational or vocational goals are ignored or forgotton due to the underlying feelings of hopelessness. All members of the addicted family become more and more ashamed of their reality and their addicted family system. Even young children realize their families are “different” compared to their peers. Out of fear shame, confusion and humiliation they hide their reality from the world.
How Families With Addiction Adapt To Survive
Families overall are very diligent in maintaining what many Psychiatrists refer to as homeostasis (homeostasis means that a family system seeks to maintain its customary organization and functioning over time with rules, boundaries, roles and defense mechanisms.) However, when alcohol or drug abuse is brought into a family system by one or more of its members the family’s ability to regulate and maintain its emotional and behavioral functioning becomes severely difficult. Families in general experience hardships, stress, and losses and in those processes they typically will adapt and support each other in healthy ways to achieve balance and regain a state of homeostasis in the family unit. In families where alcohol or drug abuse is prevalent, members resort to unhealthy ways in a desperate attempt to achieve any sort of balance. The result is a dysfunctional desperate family system that is more worried about survival than supporting each member in healthy ways to reach meaningful academic or vocational goals. All family members become subsumed by the alcohol and or drug, addiction as well as the associated behaviors to such an extent they lose their sense of being normal. Each family members life becomes consumed with hiding the truth from themselves, their children and their relational world. Trust and faith in an orderly and predictable world is soon lost as the family life becomes more and more chaotic. The plans to change never happen, all promises are broken, and family members they once depended upon for support and stability behave irrationally and simply are not available physically or emotionally nor are they trustworthy. As a result of the addiction problem both children and adults in this family system lose their sense of who and what they can depend upon.
Because the disease of addiction is of a progressive nature that affects all family members as the alcohol or drug addiction progresses so does the level of dysfunctional family patterns of behavior and communicating. Many times children are often left to fend for themselves because with all the chaos there is no time or room available in this family system to properly be attentive to them. Furthermore, if any member dares to confront the obvious problem of addiction or alcoholism in the family they will be shut down or labeled a traitor. These dysfunctional families usually have very strict rules about discussing the family’s problems outside of the home. If one breaks this rule they will be viewed as a traitor to the family system and shamed or blamed by its members. Furthermore, out of shame and humiliation of the problems in the family system the members of this system will protect the disease due to fear and humiliation of being judged on the behavior of their family system. Therefore, they usually wait in silence and hope for change as the disease of addiction progresses more and more. Family members adapt in many ways to survive in this system. Some members may withdraw into their own private worlds spending lots of time on the computer, television or with media games while others may compete for the little love and attention that is available in this family system. In the absence of reliable parents, older siblings may become pseudo parents and attempt to provide the care and attention missing in the family system.
Members of a family with an alcoholic or drug abusing member tend to live in fear. These members develop patterns of communication and behavior that is most likely to reduce stress and chaos in the family as much as possible. They are not free to express themselves for fear of triggering an emotional or physical consequences. These family members’ thoughts and feelings become so disguised with behaviors attitudes and defense mechanisms designed simply to enable them to survive emotionally and some times physically. These family members walk around their home, work and schools on egg shells never knowing what exactly to expect or when to expect it. They never know what condition or mood the alcohol or drug abuser will be in when they come home nor how the other family members will be affected or react to it. The family operates around trying to manage the unmanageable disease alcoholism or drug addiction. Its members are reduced to performing based on the latest crisis or preparing for the unknown. They become masters at performing in order to gain recognition or a sense of value regardless of their dreams and aspirations. This manifests in behaviors that become very confusing but the origin of them is to disguise the instability and recieve some attention and recognition in life. As a result of this the family members lose any sense of who they are or what they want to be. These performances become a life long journey for those who do not seek professional help.
Family members affected by an alcohol or drug abuser usually will avoid sharing thoughts and feelings with each other that could lead to emotional pain. Therefore, they avoid real conversations about the problems related to the addiction. Sometimes this is a futile attempt at protecting each other as they share some moments of peace. However, this further reinforces the dynamic of denial in the family system. This causes children and adults to further question their own sense of logic and deny their own feelings of fear and hopelessness. This cycle will continue as the emotions within each member become more and more overwhelming and eventually manifests in an emotional breakdown or get “acted out” through impulsive behaviors. In these families, members have only learned to survive and perform they have not learned how to manage emotions, fears and impulses in healthy way which are fundamental components and necessities in life. Thus, these families become systems for manufacturing and perpetuating compulsive unhealthy emotionally unstable individuals. Many of these members will experience their own struggles eventually, with addiction, obesity, behavioral problems, academic problems and relationship problems without getting help. These individuals will never have learned how to maintain a family in a balanced, relaxed, trusting supportive loving environment. The norm for these family members becomes chaos and anxiety and they will unknowingly create such in their future relationships with the outside world to feel comfortable.
Unfortunately many times the guilt and shame that these family members experienced and their prolonged denial of the truth keeps them forever in a defensive mode of operation which prevents them from reaching out for professional help.
Children Growing Up In Addicted Family Systems
When a child is exposed during their early childhood years to living in an intense emotional environment plagued by alcohol and/or drug addiction it has severe consequences. The child experiences high levels of fears, anxieties, psychological and physical neglect. Children of alcohol or drug dependent parents feel overwhelmed with powerful emotions of embarrassment, emptiness, fear, loneliness, hopelessness, shame and sadness. Furthermore, childrezan in these homes lack the developmental ability and family support to process and understand these emotions in a productive and healthy way. As a result, they resort to using defenses mechanisms, such as shutting down their own feelings, denying there is a problem, rationalizing, intellectualizing, over-controlling, withdrawing, anger, rage, regression, over achievement or resorting to what they have learned in their family system; self medicating. Children often see self medicating as a logical way for them to manage or control their inner emotional turmoil. After all, this is what the child learned from watching one or more members of their own family system.
Many teachers, parents and professionals feel that a child of an alcoholic or drug abusing parent/grandparent/sibling will manifest behaviors that iare deemed behaviorally unacceptable such as being cruel to animals, fighting, truancy, smoking or chewing tobacco, stealing, academic failure , using illegal performance enhancing substances or being disrespectful. However, this may be the case in some children but the reality is these children are just as likely to be the president of student government, the captain of the basketball team, or the honor student. Children from families that suffer from addiction have been conditioned since early childhood to hide their emotions and family system reality. Many times these children will be in exaggerated roles or over-achievers to disguise the chaos that is at home and in their emotional makeup.They may be the funny kid, artsy kid, the trouble maker or the heart throb of the school. Regardless of what role they take on they all feel a tremendous amount of shame. Children from families with alcohol or drug abuse feel “less than” others. Regardless of any accolades or achievements they make, internally they think and feel like they do not measure up to others. Children from addicted families feel that they are flawed and defective as human beings. Everything they do is to create more smoke and mirrors out of intense fear that the outside world will discover their insecure reality. Therefore, these children go to great lengths to disguise their inner feelings and thoughts and they are very good at it.
To Learn More Visit Our Associated Alcohol And Drug Parenting Guides: Alcohol And Drug Prevention For Children And Teenagers, Alcohol And Drug Treatments Defined, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Drug Definition and Facts and Therapy Defined.
Manny got suspended for using sexual enhancers…to help his erectile dysfunction….gotta feel sorry for the poor guy…lol
And lots of you guys thought that Manny carried a big bat!
I knew it all along. HHHHHaaaaaHaaaa… Seriously though ya gotta give it to the Red Sox! They sure as heck ow when to unload players! Vaughn, Nomar, Pedro, Damon, etc etc and now Manny.
The cheap comments are hysterical…..yeah because Santana came cheap, oh yeah Beltran too……..highest payroll in NL but they are cheap…
Thank god for the Wilpon’s cheapness!!!!!!!!
LISTEN THESE IS THE YANKEES”S WAY OF HURTING THE DODGERS BECAUSE TORRE IS A TRUE WINNER & THEY R BITCHES.
WE ARE THE REAL TEAM FOR NY & BELIEVE ME THE METS IN 09
CAPSLOCK=DISABILITY ACCOMODATION
THIS IS VERY BAD NEWS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO CLEAN THE SPORT TOTALLY. MANNY, REPORTEDLY WAS BUSTED FOR H.C.H. A FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT USED BY STEROID ABUSERS AFTER COMPETING A CYCLE OF USE TO RESTART THE BODIES NATURAL TESTOSTERONE PRODUCTION. IF THAT’S WHAT HIS USE WAS, HOW DID HE NOT TEST POSITIVE SOONER WHILE IN THE CYCLE.
TO ME, THIS MEANS THEY’VE EFFFECTIVLY DISCOVERD A MEANS TO BEAT THER CURRENT TETING PROCEDURES AND THE FULL/WEIOGHT & PRESSURE OF THE PUBLIC & THE CLEAN PLAYERS BE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THE UNION FOR ITS’ REFUSAL TO ALLOW BLOODTESTS. BALDERDASH! NEW RULE NEEDED: PASSED BLOODTEST REQUIRED FOR PROBALL STATUS.