Who’s sick of the ranting yet? This guy…
But here we are again and it will be the Kings of Corks mission to help clear Ryan Braun’s name from the tarnish and mud that covers it after Buster Olney broke the story from two leaky sources.
Sure Braun wasn’t proven innocent by arbitrators but Braun’s legal team also didn’t pursue that path knowing the most likely outcome of that defense would be ‘guilty’. No one will ever know what happened with test, but below are some articles which others have written with many more sources and time than this site owner has. Hopefully, the links below shed light on the fact that Braun didn’t get off on a ‘technicality’ but a great defense to prove that his test results were unusual.- Chad Moriyama shows Braun’s doubters that this wasn’t a technicality but actual science could clear Ryan Braun’s reputation.
- Will Carroll, author of The Juice, is a sports writer specializing in stories regarding performance enhancing drugs. He offers his two-cents on Boston sports radio on the defense being able to duplicate Braun’s results with the same mishandling from the collector. Whether it was kept in a fridge, a basement, a car trunk, or in a Tupperware container on a desk.
- Will Carroll also posted an amazon ebook available for purchase about Braun’s appeal. How science could prove how Braun’s sample could come back as a false positive with all three security seals still intact. Don’t worry, if you want to save your 99-cents, The Commish will report back once he finishes reading.
- Braun isn’t the first baseball player to successfully appeal a positive test. In fact, he isn’t the first Brewer to successfully appeal the process. Brendan Katin tested positive for steroids in 2007 but became the first player to successfully appeal the test results (that we know of).
- Katin and Braun aren’t the first two athletes to successfully appeal either. Here is the most recent list of known overturned cases. One of the more interesting cases was that of UK sprinter Diane Modahl. She successfully proved that the Portugal heat and lack of refrigeration of her sample produced a false positive for elevated testosterone levels.
As mentioned in previous posts, Ryan Braun’s name will never be cleared unless he continues to preform and volunteer for drug tests. If at all in the next five seasons his numbers decline even slightly, all of the Braun doubters will pound their judicial hammer yelling “Guilty!” If its any consolation to Braun, his name and reputation has been cleared by most Brewer fans.
Edit: The collector released a press statement and it agrees with everything previously stated on this site. No one is going to claim any responsibility in the case. Hopefully, the arbitrator comes forward with all of the information provided that determined his verdict.
Were any interesting Braun articles missed in this post? Let us know in the comments section and they will be added to the list.