Braun Wins Suspension Appeal

[Elite]

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun, the reigning National League MVP, won his appeal of a positive test for a performance-enhancing drug and will avert a 50-game suspension.

Major League Baseball and the players' union announced the decision Thursday, a day before Braun is expected to arrive at the Brewers' spring training camp in the Phoenix suburb of Maryvale.

USA Today

Bullshit.

 

[RipCity32]

Can't believe he got out of that lol. I'd like to hear the details on this.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

gotta wonder if the breach in confidentiality helped him win the appeal.

 

[Stro]

NEW YORK (AP) National League MVP Ryan Braun's 50-game suspension has been overturned by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das.

The decision was announced Thursday by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

An outfielder for Milwaukee, Braun tested positive in October for elevated testosterone, and ESPN revealed the positive test in December.

No reasoning was given for Thursday's decision.

"Today the arbitration panel announced its decision, by a 2-1 vote, to sustain Ryan Braun's grievance challenging his 50-game suspension by the commissioner's office," a statement from the players' association said.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/02/23/braun.suspension.ap/index.html#ixzz1nFQjBQAJ

Narrow vote.. further details will be interesting on this.

 

[snipezo]

Bullshit.

Pretty much.

 

[elcheato]

Some mad folks in this thread

 

[Yankees2772]

Narrow vote.. further details will be interesting on this.

Every vote in the MLB is 2-1. The first two always agree to vote opposite.

And why the fuck is this bullshit? There's a reason there was an appeal...

 

[Elite]

It's bullshit because it was overturned due to a technicality in the testing process and had nothing to do with the actual result of the test.

The MLB is beyond pissed that it was overturned as well.

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:realgm

Official: Braun Ruling Is 'Kick In The Gut To Clean Athletes'


Ryan Braun, the reigning National League MVP, had his 50-game drug suspension overturned on Thursday in a somewhat shocking development.

No player had ever won an appeal of such a suspension in the past.

Braun's lawyers never argued about the Milwaukee outfielder taking any sort of performance-enhancing drug, instead they focused on the handling of his urine sample and won.

"This," one baseball official said, "is like a criminal getting off because he wasn't read his Miranda rights."

The belief is that Braun was exonerated because of a loophole.

"It's a kick in the gut to clean athletes," said Travis Tygart, the CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Association.

 

[.infamous]

I expect Braun to get shit ton of boos lol

 

[Blake]

I expect Braun to get shit ton of boos lol

Yeah, no matter what he's lost a lot of players and fans respect.

 

[cruzg24]

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[bestkeptsecret13]

Weren't his results like 3 times higher than any test result in the history of testing?

I'd say those are pretty bogus results and his suspension should be overturned, but I haven't really paid much attention to this, so I don't know...

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Not sure if thats the highest positive test in MLB, but overall Labs have seen higher results.

Via Yahoo:
The folks at MLB would answer that’s because he almost certainly is a cheater. That protocol was followed, that the sample arrived intact in Montreal, and that the head of the laboratory there testified in Braun’s hearing there was nothing unusual found in the sample or the T/E (testosterone to epitestosterone) ratio, beyond the fact it showed positive.

(A 4:1 ratio triggers a positive test. Braun’s was about 30:1. While that is very high, the lab has seen ratios of 80:1 and higher.)

 

[East]

Always liked the guy, but as a fan of the sport this hurts him in my eyes

 

[NV]

Will never look at him the same regardless.

 

[Yankees2772]

I don't get you guys.

He's said the whole time that he'd submit a DNA test, and you still question it?

 

[Stro]

I don't get you guys.

He's said the whole time that he'd submit a DNA test, and you still question it?

If it looks like a rat, smells like a rat and acts like a rat then it usually is a rat.

I love the way their defense was 100% focused on the process. It doesn't seem right - something's definitely amiss here.

 

[Yankees2772]

The job of his lawyers was to overturn the suspension, and they chose the best defense to do that and were successful...

 

[Stro]

The job of his lawyers was to overturn the suspension, and they chose the best defense to do that and were successful...

Even so, lawyers will represent the scumiest people on the planet and blatantly lie for them so I wouldn't place much faith in their ethics.