That’s how the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay describes how the Red Sox “great” is leaving baseball.

How much of Ramirez’s career can be tossed aside? Some of it? All? A Hall of Fame case, once easy to make, feels like a waste of time. Sports will forgive its wayward eccentrics—look at Dennis Rodman’s act, en route to the Basketball Hall of Fame—but performance-enhancing drugs have become a great unforgivable.

Meanwhile, the Globe editorial board (it’s on a roll!) agrees with me: Manny’s steroid use casts an indelible shadow over the Sox’s 2004 World Series victory over the Yankees Cardinals.

Ramirez’s track record, along with reports that David Ortiz, too, tested positive in 2003, leaves an unfortunate odor of suspicion around Boston’s championship clubs….

Hey! I’ve been saying that for years…