Manny, Jon & Kate

Every once in awhile, you have to get some stuff off your chest. Today is that day.

Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball for a failed drug test on May 7th. As I understand it, he had something in his system that is known to help you “come down” after taking steroids for an extended period – yet it’s a women’s fertility drug. I don’t completely get it and don’t care. He took something he wasn’t supposed to, came up with a lame excuse as to why, and has to sit out until July 3rd. Or does he?
Yet yesterday, Ramirez started his “rehab” assignment in Albuquerque, NM, the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate.. Now typically, rehab assignments (when major league players are sent to the minor leagues) are for those times when a player has been on the disabled list, and needs to ease back into the job. If he’s suspended, why does he get to play at all? Why should he be able to “ease back into the job” if he was using a banned substance – one that follows a performance enhancing drug? I’m sure this is just something that MLB Players Union Prez Donald Fehr had written in their contracts. Way to teach ‘em a lesson, Don. And so long.

Let me explain that I do not watch Jon & Kate Plus Eight. I never have. I’m only familiar with it because the trials and tribulations of this family pound the media like a gulf coast hurricane. Go to the front page of any news channel online and BOOM, I guarantee you, Jon or Kate are there. I’m not sure it’s ever been this heightened before with family reality shows. I really don’t remember seeing the news THAT saturated with the Osbornes. But regardless, we seem to be fascinated with the Gosselins.
And now they are splitting up.

REALLY? You whored your children out to national TV for money, enjoying the voyeuristic tendencies of those who love to see bad things happen to other people (face it, why else do you watch reality shows?), and then thought you could sneak around on your wife – even though you knew the cameras would still be rolling? OMG, are you that stupid? I don’t feel sorry for either one of them. I feel sorry for those kids. For the rest of their lives, they will be known as “one of the eight”. And they will be reminded that, for a wad of cash, their parents allowed cameras to capture the slow destruction of whatever family bond they had. You may think Kate is a bitch and that Jon is a bad father. But the clue was there long before they split up. It was evident the moment they signed the contract to allow cameras in their home.