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Scottage Cheese
Big Tuna, you failed to hear the press conference last month when his suspension was lifted.
daveineg
His suspension? What suspension? He was never actually suspended and you can’t lift something that never happened. Had not it been leaked to ESPN, we’d have never known anything about a failed test. MLB doesn’t suspend players until after they’ve had a hearing and it’s adjudicated. It was adjudicated in his favor and hence no suspension His legal team is gathering the evidence to clear his name, Until then he’ll have to live with the catcalls.
His teammates say there is much more to his story than has been made public. It hasn’t been made public in my opinion because it’s not over in the courts. Braun’s fight to clear his name hasn’t ended.
JacksTigers
So there is a 0% chance that he lied? He is a liar, cheater, and a disgrace. The worst part is that he got away on a technicality.
davbee
So there’s a 0% chance he’s innocent? An independent arbitrator heard the evidence and decided in favor of Braun. That’s good enough for me. I’ve moved on.
Infield Fly
Dude…you can’t really have “moved on” if you still need to come and weigh in about Braun’s supposed innocence.
davbee
Oh, but I have. Looking forward to 2012 baseball season. I’ll see Braun in AZ in May, and I’ll feel no need to treat him any differently than I did before all this. It’s a lot of the rest of you who won’t let this go.
Infield Fly
People who move on from something don’t need to talk about it. So you just proved yourself wrong – pretty obviously – by responding about this Braun thing a second time.
( ↑ Not a technicality by the way)
davbee
We don’t know why he was cleared–neither you or I were in that room listening to the evidence. However, there was a professional arbitrator in the room who did hear the evidence–one that on 12 previous occasions had ruled that a player suspension for PEDs was in order–and this time he felt Braun’s team made a strong enough case to avoid one. Braun won his case within the rules that were collectively bargained by MLB and the player’s union. Again, that’s good enough for me.
As for Braun being a cheat, he has passed 25 previous drug tests in his baseball career, including four during the 2011 season. That’s also good enough for me.
notsureifsrs
it’s good enough for pretty much everyone…to agree he shouldn’t be suspended, since the rules weren’t strictly followed
it’s not good enough for everyone to agree he never used PEDs, which is what you’re doing
you are trying to use an abritrator’s conclusions about the former to imply that that the latter has been decided. that isn’t appropriate
braun still tested positive for synthetic testosterone and it is still borderline insane to believe that it either spontaneously created itself in his sample or was placed there by means of a vast conspiracy involving alien technology. and if it wasn’t one of those two things, then braun used PEDs
AaronAngst
Any one of you out there that believes that your favorite player hasn’t attempted to gain a competitive edge by using a substance, banned or not – testable or not, needs a wake up call. This is a part of competition, and has been for as long as competition has been around. I would argue that Braun successfully beating a failed test almost makes him cleaner than the Pujols-es of the world. Take one look at the Queen, and tell me he hasn’t juiced. A-Rod has. Bonds did. Those are the top three bats of the last decade plus… For a fan to get all high and mighty, which is the trip most of you seem to be on, makes no sense to me.
notsureifsrs
can’t speak for anyone else but i am pretty comfortable with not making sense to you
AaronAngst
I gather you’re pretty uncomfortable with logic in general, so that’s cool with me.
Flharfh
Casey McGehee, Yuniesky Betancourt, and Prince Fielder produced a combined total of 6.3 WAR last season. Since the rest of the team is substantially the same, the new trio of Ramirez, Gonzalez, and Gamel need only beat that amount. The Prince-less 2012 Brewers have a really good chance to be better (in WAR, at least) than last year’s team.