Manny Being Ban-nied? No, He'll Retire Instead

Manny Ramirez would rather retire from baseball than serve a 100 game drug-related suspension. And what does this have to do with the Cubs, you ask? Well, in 2008, the Dodgers were limping through the first half of the season and Ramirez was half-assing his way out of the good graces of Red Sox fans' hearts. The Dodgers decided to overlook these shortcomings and trade for Ramirez, who promptly put up an obscene .396/.489/.743 line (that's a 1.232 OPS and a 221 OPS+) in 53 games to lift his new team to an NL West title. And in the NLDS against the Cubs...you know.

In college basketball, if a team uses a player who later turns out to be ineligible, they have to forfeit any games they won with that player in their lineup. So since the Dodgers were using a guy who should have been ineligible (twice caught using PEDs), can MLB make them forfeit those postseason games and award the 2008 NLDS to the Cubs? And while we're at it, can we then have a do-over of the NLCS, Cubs vs. Phillies? And since Phillies pitcher JC Romero was suspended for PEDs too, by the same logic we can put the Cubs retroactively into the 2008 World Series! Of course, even in my made-up scenario, I'm sure the Cubs would still find a way to lose the World Series against Tampa Bay.