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There's all this talk in the press about Manny Ramirez's punishment for testing positive for drugs.
He'll lose fifty games during which he could homer aplenty and set personal records.
He'll forego about $ 7 million in salary.
And he'll make the "Wait and see!" pundits in Boston and elsewhere cackle with joy over their prediction that his feet would slide in due time, as Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards might have predicted it, centuries earlier.
But that's not the worst of it.
The greatest punishment for Manny, whose dreadlocks glow in the Chavez Ravine spotlight, could be irrelevance.
By the time Manny returns to the lineup, the Dodgers may still occupy first place in their division. In a notably weak peer group of teams, this year's Blue Crew needs to win 50% or fewer of its next 50 games to stay on top, as I calculate it.
Except for an upcoming trip to compete against relatively strong Eastern Division
teams, the Dodgers are expected to keep beating up their typical rivals: the Giants, Diamondbacks, Padres, and Rockies.
In fact, Dodger management couldn't have planned this any better if their goal was to make their young stars elevate their level of play, permanently. The kids get a chance to strut their stuff without Manny's big bat and swagger in the third spot.
If the likes of Ethier and Kemp keep hitting, and Martin heats up, Manny will be just another guest at the banquet around the All-Star break.
"Nice you could make it" will be the words he'll hear, the subtext being, "but you didn't have to show-up. We're doing just fine."
And just like that, Manny will feel every bit like a parent at his offspring's wedding, about to be officially shoved off into obscurity.
Oh, yeah, the Hall of Fame might forget to welcome Manny, too. But being spurned means someone is paying attention.
Being ignored, means you have become irrelevant, and there's nothing worse than that if you have been a creature basking in the blue limelight.