NEW YORK -- Tommy Lasorda, who managed the Los Angeles Dodgers to two World Series titles, did not mince words when asked about Alex Rodriguez's 162-game suspension.

"He should have gotten more," Lasorda said Tuesday at a Baseball Assistance Team charity event in Manhattan. "What he's done? He's trying to ruin the game. You can't do that.

"He's going to keep on trying to do something, but he's got a suspension. He should just sit back and fill it out."

Lasorda also said steroid cheats never should be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

He said he is particularly upset because he once presumed A-Rod was clean.

"I was thinking, 'At least this guy is doing it legitimately,' and then find out he wasn't," Lasorda said. "That really turned my opinion of him."

Lasorda's godson Mike Piazza recently fell short of election to the Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility. He is among an entire era of players getting penalized for the widespread steroid usage at that time.

Lasorda said he does not blame Rodriguez particularly for Piazza missing election. Rather, Lasorda blames the widespread suspicion of players from that era.

"You know there's one word that's beginning to be big in the voting, and that word is 'suspicion,'" Lasorda said. "A lot of people get suspicious, and that's it. But they don't know for sure. They're doing it on suspicion. How do you fix that? I don't know how you fix it.

"That's the only thing they've got to go on is what they hear, what they feel, what they see, what they believe. That's the only way to do it.