Website implores baseball fans to Vote for Manny
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This article was published 28/05/2009 (6289 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
NEW YORK — Jason Rosenberg was heading home and listening to satellite radio when he heard Manny Ramirez was fourth among National League outfielders in initial all-star voting. By the end of the night, a new website was born: Vote for Manny.
“I said it would be funny if Manny got elected, because he’s coming off a suspension July 3 and the all-star game is a week later, so they don’t even have that sort of built-in protection,” the 39-year-old from suburban Ardsley said Wednesday. “So I got home, and just quickly threw a website together.”
Rosenberg got www.voteformanny.blogspot.com up and running Tuesday night, designed to point out that baseball has no rule preventing players coming off drug suspensions from becoming all-stars. It links to an online all-star ballot.
Ramirez was suspended for 50 games May 7 after his drug test showed artificial testosterone and baseball investigators obtained documentation that he received HCG, a banned female fertility drug taken by some after steroid cycles to restart natural testosterone production.
— The Associated Press
