Ron Washington chastised for doing his best Keith Hernandez impression

This just in: Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington tested positive for cocaine during the 2009 season.  Washington claims it was the "one and only time" he ever used the drug that Keith Hernandez popularized back in the 1980's.

Sources have apparently informed ESPNDallas.com that Washington will not be fired.

And why would he be?  There is no good reason why MLB even tests managers for drugs and PEDs in the first place.  What does it matter if some manager is on cocaine or marijuana or even HGH?  It's not like he's going to pitch the 8th inning or enter the game as a pinch-hitter.  I realize this is a slow time for the media, and they're scratching at the bottom of the barrel for new stories at this point in spring training, but come on....someone please tell me why this is news.  Does anyone really care if Ron Washington snorts an occasional line of coke?



Photo credit for "first time user" Ron Washington: DailySkew Baseball

Photo credit for "coked out" Keith Hernandez: Bottlenecknyc.

UPDATE: Admitted non-specific steroid user Alex Rodriguez once said that, as a 10-year-old, he never would have believed that Keith Hernandez used cocaine while playing Major League Baseball.  Interestingly, and most definitely hypocritically, Rodriguez also stated that Hernandez's cocaine use "tarnished the purity of the game."  Open mouth, insert foot.

(H/T Andrew for the A-Rod article)