It's hard to imagine but the "Worldwide Leader" has surprisingly sunk to even lower lows. Now that LA Dodgers pariah Manny Ramirez is almost cleared from his 50-game suspension for being the first male to try to give birth, he's going to have a rehab stint in Albuquerque, NM.
The moniker for Isotopes Park: "The Lab", how fitting.
And if that wasn't enough, ESPNEWS will interrupt its 24-hour stream of agate to give us every Ramirez at bat. Does anyone need to witness all of Ramirez's at bats? He's probably going to be a step slow and -- as usual -- will be several steps behind in the field. But that isn't stopping the four-letter network from making this into a full-out media bonanza, especially since there hasn't been any breaking news in quite awhile.
With all this attention, it's a wonder if Bristol actually remembers why he's going to need two-to-three rehab starts to get into baseball shape. The man knowingly took something he shouldn't, and now he's going to play before a sold out stadium and in front of millions more on live TV.
I'm not sure this is what commissioner Bud Selig had in mind when he gave Ramirez his 50-day unpaid vacation. But, on a slow news day in an endless news cycle, things like this will keep passing the grade as newsworthy.
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