• Braun Safe On Administrative Error

    Posted by on February 24th, 2012 · Comments (13)

    Some story, eh?

    As O.J. once said…it never hurts to lawyer up.

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    1. Garcia
      February 24th, 2012 | 7:12 am

      I don’t give a shit about PEDs, but this bugs me because Braun put himself above the fray by going off on ARod. Now a “technicality” has him puffing his chest out and acting like he’s been vindicated. He’s really going to get it now by the fans.

      Read this paragraph at baseballmusings:

      MLB released a statement in which it “vehemently disagrees” with the panel’s ruling. Travis Tygart, the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (“USADA”, the official anti-doping agency for Olympic sport in the United States), said the ruling was “unreal” and “insulting” to clean athletes. He confirmed that what occurred was standard. “This stuff happens around the world all the time. They’re collected at people’s homes after the UPS or FedEx or DHL is closed. The DCO (doping control officer) keeps it with them. These are well-trained people whose job it is to maintain it. I’m stunned.”

      Braun, you are a joke!!!
    2. MJ Recanati
      February 24th, 2012 | 9:01 am

      Garcia wrote:

      He’s really going to get it now by the fans.

      I doubt it. Most fans simply don’t care about PED’s and the fact that Braun won’t serve a single day of his suspension means that people will eventually forget he was ever due to be suspended in the first place.

      I sort of hate the “technicality defense” but the fact remains that this defense exists and it was on Bud Selig and his people to close all loopholes. That they didn’t only reinforces my belief that Selig is a bumbling, incompetent schmuck.
    3. Garcia
      February 24th, 2012 | 9:16 am

      @ MJ Recanati:
      Yeah, you’re probably right, fans will probably forget about it all by the time the season starts.

      I don’t really put this one on Selig, though. And I don’t need reinforcement to know Selig is a bumbling, incompetent schmuck. It’s like multiplying by zero with him.
    4. sicilianlou
      February 24th, 2012 | 10:10 am

      Simply put, money will always buy you the best lawyers!. Steve this is where I always had an issue with MLB and its double standard when it comes to its baseball policy.. Suspension for a player using non prescription drugs but ban for life on betting on the sport!!. Honestly, Cheating is Cheating and therefore you should be banned period.

      While professional athletes compete for higher pay, they are always going to look for an edge. No matter what the follow up with this yields, all professional sports franchise will be behind the curve on detecting drug use. Somewhere out there today sits some MIT chemical engineer working on the next level of PEDS that simply will not be picked up by today’s technology.. And honestly why should athletes worry?.. You are always going to get the best attorneys working for you to find some loophole in the due process that gets you cleared of any wrong doing.. is it a wonder fans are sick of hearing this?…
    5. Garcia
      February 24th, 2012 | 10:42 am

      sicilianlou wrote:

      Somewhere out there today sits some MIT chemical engineer working on the next level of PEDS that simply will not be picked up by today’s technology.

      As they should, there is value to these thing being developed; getting an understanding of the (potentially) positive (or negative) effects such chemicals may have on the human body.

      I agree with Bill James, there will come a time where these things will become pro-forma with athletes, as well as the mainstream public.
    6. MJ Recanati
      February 24th, 2012 | 11:05 am

      Garcia wrote:

      I don’t really put this one on Selig, though.

      I can’t help myself…I hate the guy so much.

      Garcia wrote:

      I don’t need reinforcement to know Selig is a bumbling, incompetent schmuck. It’s like multiplying by zero with him.

      Yep.
    7. Raf
      February 24th, 2012 | 1:24 pm

      MJ Recanati wrote:

      I doubt it. Most fans simply don’t care about PED’s and the fact that Braun won’t serve a single day of his suspension means that people will eventually forget he was ever due to be suspended in the first place.

      Not only that, Braun isn’t a polarizing figure like, say Barry Bonds or Manny Ramirez.
    8. Steve L.
      February 24th, 2012 | 10:28 pm

      I was very disappointed to hear Braun’s presser today where had a very well crafted and presented narrative on his position on this whole thing…and, not once did he blame the thing on his cousin.
    9. Raf
      February 24th, 2012 | 10:52 pm

      Steve L. wrote:

      I was very disappointed to hear Braun’s presser today where had a very well crafted and presented narrative on his position on this whole thing…and, not once did he blame the thing on his cousin.

      Yeah, he blamed the person handling the sample instead…

      It’s going to suck for him, because if he has an off year or a slump, the whispers are going to come back (if they ever leave). And heaven forbid he fails another test…

      I’m curious to see what MLB’s reaction is going to be. Looks like they’re going to be loaded for bear. Braun got off on a technicality, I bet MLB is going to do everything in their power to prevent something like this happening again.
    10. Jim TreshFan
      February 25th, 2012 | 10:00 am

      It seemed to me that Braun was blaming MLB for the whole, sordid affair, claiming that their flawed drug policy unfairly dragged his name through the mud and coming thisclose to demanding an apology from Selig. After all, didn’t the abitrator’s declare him 1000% innocent of any drugging?
    11. Raf
      February 25th, 2012 | 10:47 am

      Jim TreshFan wrote:

      After all, didn’t the abitrator’s declare him 1000% innocent of any drugging?

      They didn’t. The test itself wasn’t disputed, the protocol was. That the Brewers had other issues with testing tells me this was something like the Pine Tar decision, where they were okay with what was going on (supposed improper handling of samples/using a bat with too much pine tar), until something negative happened (failed test/Brett HR to put the Royals ahead).

      I do applaud Braun fighting the system, and whether one believes he was innocent or guilty, he went about things in the proper manner. I bet other players are or were wondering “now why didn’t I think of that?”
    12. Jim TreshFan
      February 25th, 2012 | 11:03 am

      @ Raf:

      Yes, it was thrown out due to a technicality. It was also a split decision. But that is not Braun’s spin on it. He’s more or less claiming that he was wrongfully accused and that the ruling found him guiltless of any offense.
    13. Raf
      February 25th, 2012 | 11:40 am

      Spin is just that, spin :)

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