Here we go again: Manny being Manny.

I wonder how many articles and blogs will be posted with a title similar to this? Probably too many to count.

In any case, Manny Ramirez just retired from Major League Baseball. MLB caught him again using performance enhancing drugs.  I guess his 50 game suspension didn’t teach him a lesson. This time, he would have received an 100 game suspension for his antics. I don’t need to go over his career stats like everybody else has already in the past hour since this news dropped, but we all know he has hall of fame caliber type of numbers over his career. The question is, will he get in?

If it were up to me, I’d say no just because I feel he has disrespected too many teams. This is the case of “Manny being Manny.” Hall of Fame induction isn’t necessarily based on respect, though. Based off of his career numbers, he should be in the Hall without a doubt. He has won batting titles, RBI titles, HR titles, World Series rings, and currently has the most postseason homeruns of all time.

Unfortunately for him, he has left his baseball legend tainted. Not too many, if any, baseball writers would be willing to vote in someone who was caught not just once, but twice using HGH and/or steroids. Manny didn’t even defend himself, instead he called it quits, and in the process stomped on any type of offense the Rays would have produced out of him (.059 BA for they Rays) . It probably didn’t matter all that much, because if he didn’t retire he would have ended up playing only about 50 games for the Rays the whole season. Sorry Tampa Bay, but Manny really could care less about you. He’s made his money and I’m sure he is fine with that. That’s just Manny being Manny.

What do you think about Manny getting into the HOF?