Dodgers slugger Manny Ramirez, suspended last week for 50 games for using a banned performance-enhancing drug, served up an apology to Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. Ramirez, the flamboyant left fielder who has backed up his rhetoric about how good he is by leading his team to a league-leading record, is expected to face his disappointed teammates some time this week. Ramirez contacted McCourt on Saturday, two days after the 12-time All-Star began serving a penalty imposed by Major League Baseball. “I wanted to meet him face to face,” McCourt said. “He started off the meeting by apologizing and acknowledging the disappointment that he’s created – not only for me but for others. He’s in the process right now of doing what anybody else would do if they made a mistake, in terms of making amends here and communicating with the people he knows he has to communicate with and then going about repairing his relationships. And of course, his is magnified many times because he’s a public figure and a very popular one.” He encouraged Ramirez to speak to the entire squad. “If Manny takes the steps that I’m hopeful he will, I think this will be something that won’t damage this franchise at all,” McCourt said. “We all make mistakes, and it’s how we deal with those mistakes that really differentiates one from the other. And if Manny does with others what he did with me yesterday, I think we’ll be on the road to full recovery.”