Manuel Arístides "Manny" Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972) is a Dominican-American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who is a free agent. Previously he played in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, and Tampa Bay Rays. Ramirez is recognized for great batting skill and power, a nine-time Silver Slugger and one of 25 players to hit 500 career home runs. His 21 grand slams are third all-time, 29 post-season home runs the most in big league history. He appeared in 12 All-Star Games, a streak of eleven consecutive beginning in 1998 including every season that he played with the Boston Red Sox.
Ramirez was allegedly among a group of 104 major league players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during 2003.^[1] In 2009 he was suspended 50 games for violating baseball's drug policy by taking human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a women's fertility drug.^[2] According to steroid dealer Victor Conte, hCG is often used to restart natural testosterone production after a steroid cycle.^[3]
In the spring of 2011, Ramirez was informed by MLB of another violation to its drug policy. He chose to retire on April 8 rather than face a 100-game suspension.[


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Hello.

good  afternoon.


I'm  gonna  start  saying  that  i'm  a  storyteller. 

my  grand mother  used  to  tell  me  all kinds of weird and incoherent stories,and all these horror stories, where there was never
a happy ending,where ghosts appear, men without heads, etc.. and I now do the same with my small nephews.And I must say that storytelling is fun ,and more  when  there  are  horror stories, it has a point of staying with the mind of a person for a few minutes , and   the faces are changing and that expression motivates a little  bit, and  more  when they are  child.  jeje.

HELLO  GUYS.   here  i  let  you  a  place where  you  can  found  more  urban  legends.  i hope  you like  it.


The Legend:
A couple checks into a hotel and have to put up with a foul odor in their room all night. They call the staff to complain and somebody figures out the stench is coming from the bed.
Now, there's no way that scenario is going to have a good ending. You're almost hoping at that point that it'll turn out the last guest just got drunk and pooped behind the headboard. But, no, the staff take off the matress and discover the couple has been sleeping over the rotting body of a dead girl who had been stuffed in the box spring.


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Can we lernd about urban legends?

Urban legends are scaries stories about rare thinks that anybody knew if it realy happened or not, but anyway people tell them to others as if they were truth,

Here, in Dominican Republic we have a lot of urban legends, for example, "Maria la O".

It tells us that Maria Was a girl who lived near the river, she was a mocking liar and she didn't care what her moder said. Everybody said that she was a bad girl, she didn't belive in God.

It tells us that one holly fryday she went to the river and started swiming and then she became in a half fish, and everybody said that it was a punishment for disobey her mother and for making fun of Gad, then she started to cry so much until to converted the river in the occean.

Fathers tell taht story to teach kids obedience, they say that if they disobey they will run into problems and recieve a big punishment from Gad.

And then, I think that we can use some urban legends to teach good things and learn about life. 

Hello, my name is Isabel and today I'm going to write about baseball.

In Dominican Republic baseball is a tradition, no,no,no, is a pasion. Most of dominicans love baseball. In the baseball season everibody talk about baseball, wear their baseball team's t-shirt, caps, and bags, you can see the games in each corner's groceries in a big screen, and people don't talk or think about economics problems, politic, prizes, but just about baseball.

There is not uncommon to hear a lot of discussions on the street, public transportation or at work about which team is better, in spite of you don't know the players, average or game's schedule you always defend your team (licey, aguilas, escogidos, gigantes, estrellas, toros).

The best thing about this season is that families and friends meets to share and see the game together. for that reason, I like the baseball season in my country.

Winter baseball; a real war in Dominican Republic

Every fall in Dominican Republic take place the war of baseball teams, from the north AGUILAS CIBAEÑAS and GIGANTES DEL CIBAO, from the east we have TOROS and ESTRELLAS ORIENTALES and from Santo Domingo TIGRES DEL LICEY and LEONES DEL ESCOGIDO.

It starts in the regular series, where they play 160 games, and the best four of that part continue then to the ROUND ROBIN which is an exciting part of the series, in my opinion is better than the final series because it means a competition to get the best two teams. The most explosive game is when LICEY and AGUILAS face to give the audition a great exhibition  of how to play basseball.

After one of thoose win the final series which  is the best of seven then becomes the national champion.

That is the best baseball of  las americas. Thats why we are the worl champions.

Dominican Republic’s ‘Desperate’ Baseball Culture Fuels Steroid Use, Experts SayBy Bryan LlenasPublished August 09, 2013Fox News Latino

For boys in the Dominican Republic, it’s about becoming a major league ballplayer – at all costs.In a country where 40 percent of the nation lives at or below the poverty rate, Dominicans who are 12 to 14 years old regularly quit school to begin baseball training in private academies in the hopes of saving their families from a lifetime of poverty. For these boys, it’s baseball or failure.For Major League Baseball, like in any business, it’s about the bottom line, mainly, how to find the next franchise player at the lowest cost possible.

But the combination of both priorities mix together like a toxic concoction, in the form of steroid-filled syringes, made easily available to thousands of teenage Dominicans dreaming of lifting their families out of poverty with a swing of the bat. 

The recent suspension of 13 players, 9 of whom are Dominican, by Major League Baseball in the Biogenesis scandal highlights how the growing problem in the country has affected the sport – and many are questioning whether baseball is doing enough to fight the steroid culture in the Dominican Republic, a country the majors has grown more and more reliant on for top talent."If they see that baseball is not the only way out - you’ll see a dramatic drop in use of steroids because the win at all cost mentality will disappear."

- Charles S. Farrell, Co-founder of the Dominican Republic Sports and Education AcademyAs it has each year since MLB began releasing data in 1995, the D.R. led all foreign countries with the most players in the majors in 2013 with 89 players on opening day rosters (out of 856) – the fourth most the nation has ever produced. But, at the same time, the country has a disproportionate number of players who have violated the leagues performance-enhancing drug policy. According to the MLB, thus far in 2013, 15 of the 44 players suspended for steroids in the minor leagues are Dominican and, in 2012, 31 minor league Dominicans were suspended out of 105 total suspensions.

The problem, say experts like David Fidler, co-author of “Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz,” is Major League Baseball’s knack for being reactionary, suspending players, instead of proactive in choosing not to attack the root of the PED problem, like the drug dealers themselves.The players implicated in the Biogenesis scandal, including Alex Rodriguez, Nelson Cruz, and Jhonny Peralta, were only caught because MLB cut deals with the drug dealers themselves, who in this case, exchanged valuable information on their customers for immunity.

 In the Dominican Republic, many of these dealers, who Fidler calls part of the root of the problem, are referred to as buscones – individuals who train players and then get a cut of their signing bonus, reportedly 10 to 40 percent, when they sign on to an MLB team.

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