Right now on the homepage for Major League Baseball, the featured story is about Manny Ramirez’s suspension for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. I gotta give kudos to MLB for not downplaying the story, though my guess is that some of it comes out of the intense scrutiny the league has been under the past few years on this issue. I seriously doubt a similar story in the NFL would get that kind of play on NFL.com.
You can rest assured, as long as a story only reflects badly on players, and not management, the MLB will be glad to cover it.
I don’t think MLB has anything to lose anymore. Most peoples’ reaction, I imagine, was like mine: “oh well, another one down” followed by “how much longer until football season?”
MLB officials don’t want to be dragged in front of Congress for another finger-waving spectacle, that’s all.
Don’t care. Yet another example of holding the wrong people up as role models.