NEW YORK � Jason Rosenberg was heading home and listening to satellite radio when he heard that Manny Ramirez was fourth among National League outfielders in initial All-Star voting. By the end of the night, a new Web site was born: Vote for Manny.

�I said it would be funny if Manny got elected, because he�s coming off a suspension on July 3 and the All-Star game is a week later, so they don�t even have that sort of built-in protection,� the 39-year-old from suburban Ardsley said Wednesday. �So I got home, and just quickly threw a Web site together.�
Rosenberg got www.voteformanny.blogspot.com up and running Tuesday night, designed to point out that MLB has no rule preventing players coming off drug suspensions from becoming All-Stars. It links to an online All-Star ballot and implores fans: �Remember, vote early and often!�
Ramirez was suspended for 50 games on May 7 after his drug test showed artificial testosterone and baseball investigators obtained documentation that he received HCG, a banned female fertility drug taken by some after steroid cycles to restart natural testosterone production.
He�s eligible to return to the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 3, 11 days before the All-Star game in St. Louis.
In the initial All-Star vote released Tuesday, Ramirez was on 442,763 ballots, trailing Milwaukee�s Ryan Braun (663,164), the Chicago Cubs� Alfonso Soriano (545,354) and the New York Mets� Carlos Beltran (476,843).
Voting began April 22, so it�s unclear how many were cast for Ramirez before the suspension. Baseball�s drug agreement states �a player shall be deemed to have been eligible to play in the All-Star game if he was elected or selected to play; the commissioner�s office shall not exclude a player from eligibility for election or selection because he is suspended under the program.�
In AL voting released Wednesday, the Yankees� Alex Rodriguez was third among third basemen with 245,414, trailing Tampa Bay�s Evan Longoria (664,060) and Texas� Michael Young (296,025).
After Sports Illustrated reported Rodriguez tested positive in baseball�s anonymous 2003 survey, he admitted in February to using steroids from 2001-03 while with Texas.
�It would be too interesting, too funny, too pick-your-adjective to see Manny get elected,� Rosenberg said. �It�s got to be MLB�s nightmare that the two biggest stars who have implicated themselves or gotten implicated by this are now potentially starting in their signature midsummer moment.�
Baseball spokesman Rich Levin declined comment, saying: �People can do what they want.�
Rosenberg is a Yankees fan who works in finance and has a regular blog devoted to baseball at www.itsaboutthemoney.blogspot.com, which he started more than a year ago. He disapproves of the 2003 rule change pushed through by commissioner Bud Selig that gives the All-Star winner homefield advantage in the World Series.
�I�m not a Bud basher,� he said. �I don�t go out of my way to criticize everything he does. I think he�s done some amazing things, the wild card and all sorts of other things.�
He intends to keep the Manny Web site up and running through the All-Star game.
�Most fans have had enough PED discussion, the steroids discussion, are sick of hearing it,� Rosenberg said. �Voting proves it, and yet the media still wants to cast everyone as an outcast and a pariah if they ever used or been accused or, in Manny�s case, been caught.�