mannyramirezThe Dodgers season toward the World Series took a serious blow today when MLB announced that hairball Manny Ramirez will be suspended 50 games for a positive drug test for testing “positive for performance-enhancing drugs.”

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 spend the afternoon contriving a lame excuse on how he didn’t know he was taking performance-enhancing drugs.   NY slugger Alex Rodriguez called Manny today to offer up some of his lame excuse that didn’t get used in A-Rod’s recent exposure of the cheatin’ juice.