NL MVP Ryan Braun Faces 50-Game Suspension

[93henfan]

The Brewers aren't going anywhere anyway. Cecil's kid left.

[GannonFan]

So the question is now does Braun just keep doping since he got away with it once on a technicality and maybe he'll beat the rap again or is he scared straight and will now not be doping any longer and see his numbers decline as he weans himself off the juice? Tough call, hard to get this lucky with the testing twice.

[dbackjon]

You hit the nail on the head, bluehenbillk

[bluehenbillk]

The Brewers aren't going anywhere anyway. Cecil's kid left.

True dat. On top of having to play clean he'll see fewer good pitches.

[clenz]

The MLB fucked themselves on this a couple ways.

1. Urine remains a "viable" sample for 72 hours, so when tested it was still "good". HOWEVER, MLB's rule is that it must be tested within 24 hours of collection - meaning Braun's sample is invalid by MLB's own rules.

2. Braun was tested just a week or two later again by an independent tester and it came back 100% clean. MLB refused this test because it wasn't by the "MLB tester"

3. Ryan Braun offered to have a DNA test done on the urine and himself to see if the urine was actually his. MLB refused this as well.

4. The shipping guy took Braun's urine home with him over the weekend and put it in his refridgerator...and reports are the guy is a Cubs fan...The chain of custody on this thing is so jacked up that it could have easily been tampered with...especially considering how high they are saying the testosterone levels were. For as high as the levels were and in such a short time he then tests clean is strange.



This is all on MLB.

[Thumper 76]

Well, after everything that came up yesterday the only way I can sum it up is "Wow!"

From all reports Braun was guilty as hell but walks on a semi-technicality. No one disputes the results of the test but the fact that a courier kept the vial in his fridge for a night or two changes it?

I'd love to know the reasoning. I guess it's one of two things - did they think that for some reason someone would tamper with the vial, or by refrigerating urine for greater than a 24 hour period that extreme high levels of testosterone would generate. Now of course if that were true suppliers of HGH on the black market are now out of business since you just need to refrigerate your own pee & then inject it back into your body with no money changing hands to get the same effect.

Braun just happens to play for the Brewers, Bud Selig's Brewers, yea tell me there's no connection anymore, go ahead and MLB "vehemently disagrees" with the outcome...

The bottom line is he did it, but he'll be eligible for 162 this year anyway, probably at diminshed #'s since he now knows he'll be under the scope for the rest of his career. I'll be at CBP in July when the Brewers make their only appearance of the year and will serenade him with "STER-OIDS" and "CHEAT-ER".

Just like Joe Paterno and O.J., innocent in the court of law, guilty in the court of public opinion.

Let me ask you this? Why on earth would they try to argue that he didn't do it when every other guy in history before him failed in that endeavor? You go with the tactic that gets you past your biggest hurdle and work on showing the world the rest from there. You baseball fans crack me up with how personal you take this steriods shit anyways. You get more upset bout that than if someone came in and murdered your dog and beat you with its carcass for Christs sake.