Bud Selig: Manny Ramirez suspension proves MLB drug-testing works

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Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters today that the sport’s drug-testing program is working. The proof: Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for violating it.

‘My take is, we have a drug-testing program and it worked,’’ Selig said at the conclusion of owners meetings in New York. ‘No one is above the law.

‘We’ve administered way over a thousand tests this year. We have one positive. It’s working.

‘What the Manny Ramirez situation proved and no one can miss--we have a tough program that is working.

‘Everybody should at least take comfort in that.’’

Everybody except Ramirez, that is. He reportedly still hasn’t decided how to explain the positive drug test and might decide to remain silent except for apologizing to Dodgers fans.

-- Randy Harvey

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig gestures while taking part in a panel at the 2007 American Society of Newspaper Editors convention in Washington, in this March 29, 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)