I know wrong board but RYAN BRAUN WINS APPEAL!

[Reynolds]

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers tweeted in Braun's defense: "MLB and cable sports tried to sully the reputation of an innocent man. Picked the wrong guy to mess with. Truth will set u free #exonerated."

[cucad8]

wins because the courier didn't deliver sample to fed ex immediately after. Way to skate by on a technicality. BS.

[KING CB4]

What was the point of bringing up Bautista in a thread about Braun? No offense, but Raptor fans always trying to bring up their team or city, even when it isn't relevant to the thread.

[Bank Shot]

Poor man's Jose Bautista

Bautista's the one juicing.

Nope. Best eye in baseball. Roids can't help that.

[DAntoniMustGo]

Joel Sherman ‏ @Joelsherman1
Heard that Braun defense was sample wasn't shipped in timely fashion to lab and that seemed to sway arbitrator in in his favor


so basically he did cheat but he just found a loophole and exploited it. when there's smoke there's fire.

[Marlo Stanfield]

Poor man's Jose Bautista

Bautista's the one juicing.

ROFL please tell me this child is joking. Talking out of your a** is fun, huh? Ignorance is bliss I guess.

[Wavy Q]

Poor man's Jose Bautista

Bautista's the one juicing.

Nope. Best eye in baseball. Roids can't help that.

Barry Bonds.

[Gus McCrae]

settle down bro, i'm just messing around. But if dude averaged about 12 HR's/year for 6 years and then goes for 54 HR's the next year. child please, that's odd.

[This IsMy House]

Joel Sherman ‏ @Joelsherman1
Heard that Braun defense was sample wasn't shipped in timely fashion to lab and that seemed to sway arbitrator in in his favor


so basically he did cheat but he just found a loophole and exploited it. when there's smoke there's fire.

[Marlo Stanfield]

settle down bro, i'm just messing around. But if dude averaged about 12 HR's/year for 6 years and then goes for 54 HR's the next year. child please, that's odd.

"I don't mind it; it's something that is not going to affect my focus and I'm not going to allow it to affect how I play my game," Bautista said. "They are entitled to do whatever they want and test you as many times as they want. If I get picked to be tested a million times, that's fine with me."

...and it's been done. Once he got to Toronto they fixed his broken swing, bro.

[turtlesnjoi]

What a surprise.

MLB has encouraged PED use since the 80's.

A blatant cheater gets off on a technicality, nice job MLB.

[Gus McCrae]

Cool man, I didn't realize it was such a touchy subject. I didn't realize Toronto could make 12 HR/season guys lead the league out of nowhere. I'm sorry he's your hero or something, trust me I grew up in the bay, my 2 favorite players were Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco (after Ricky Henderson) and they both were juicing. Just brace yourself for the possibility that he didn't magically start jacking them out of the park because of Toronto's hitting coach.

[Marlo Stanfield]

Cool man, I didn't realize it was such a touchy subject. I didn't realize Toronto could make 12 HR/season guys lead the league out of nowhere. I'm sorry he's your hero or something, trust me I grew up in the bay, my 2 favorite players were Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco (after Ricky Henderson) and they both were juicing. Just brace yourself for the possibility that he didn't magically start jacking them out of the park because of Toronto's hitting coach.

Did I say Toronto turns everyone into home run kings? I don't think I did. Jose is a special case, any true baseball fan can see it. I'll take the man's word when he says he's not juicing because I have no reason not to trust him, do you? Your boys McGwire and Canseco couldn't even touch their arms together because they were so juiced up, Jose is still relatively small for a power hitter. Same with Braun. Both guys are clearly clean unless they're using some space age roids that allow you to become amazingly strong while staying small.

[Superiorblogman]

Seems suspicious to me. People that have never failed a test will not get into the HOF and this guy has failed a test and now people are back on his sack. The media and these organizations do what they please

[Reynolds]

What a surprise.

MLB has encouraged PED use since the 80's.

A blatant cheater gets off on a technicality, nice job MLB.

from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Braun’s positive test reportedly included “insanely high levels” of testosterone, by far the most ever detected in a player. He requested an independent drug test a few weeks after testing positive, which was clean, but it was not authorized nor recognized as exculpatory by MLB. It was medically impossible for Braun to have tested with such a high result and two weeks later to have tested clean.

Neither Brauns numbers nor his appearance suggested 'roid use as with Bonds, Sosa, McGwire. If Braun had ingested the amount of 'roids it took to get an "insanely high level" he'd have had the worst case of acne and 'roid rage in the history of sport. As for the above poster turtlesnjoi, wherever it is you live, wherever there is a place where you're "guilty till proven innocent" please do us all a favor and stay there. The Nazis need you.

[schaffy]

^ Link to the story saying it was not medically possible?? I havent seen that yet.

[Reynolds]

^ Link to the story saying it was not medically possible?? I havent seen that yet.

I read that at the time Braun revealed he had tested clean a couple weeks later. Not sure where I saw it though I think it was initially suggested in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at some point these past months. I know it was reported in conjunction with "insanely high" dirty test, higher than any player in history. Perhaps more will be said in the coming days.