Ryan Braun's statement just released

You take all the PED apologies/statements from Lance, Braun, MacGwire, Marion Jones, Arod and the others, and just make a Mad Libs. Save the future apologists some time.

 

You'd be happier if he didn't make the statement?

 

I think it would be better for everybody if he'd been a fucking man and taken the suspension he earned back in 2011instead of acting like a gutless piece of shit and setting out to destroy a guy just doing his job.

 

Bull...crap!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijWGUKsK9pg

 

I'm sure he'll be glad to step into any time machine you can provide.

 

Knowing what we know now, Braun's comments on Laurenzi are not defendable on any level.

But ...

Let's not pretend Laurenzi is some beacon of competence.

He is the drug tester for the only successful appeal of a drug test in MLB's testing history. And we all know now for certain that Braun was guilty.

He did plenty of damage to his own career before Braun threw unwarranted gas on the fire.

 

Oh boy.

It's just sad when otherwise sane posters become pathetic fanbois.

 

Oh fuck off. Everything I stated was fact about Laurenzi. His mistakes helped Braun win an appeal he shouldn't have.

Where Braun is the mega-asshole is that he thought by winning his appeal he could away with taking an extra shot at Laurenzi.

Now Braun is taking the medicine he deserves to take for doing it.

 

Laurenzi got the sample to the testing lab without any problem. Nothing happened to the sample.

 

He got a 58-game suspension, right? The rest of the 2013 season? The Brewers are way out of it and aren't coming close to the playoffs. He probably took it because, A) It doesn't matter from a competitive standpoint; and B) Seeing what they did to A-Rod, it was a reasonable offer and the best he was likely to get. The more he fought, the worse it would be for him. This way he was able to take his medicine, disappear, let things die down and start somewhat fresh in spring training.

 

He got 65 games. Everything else you say is correct. But as I stated on a different thread, he's basically getting an extra 15 games as punishment for winning his appeal. In the end, though, he was battling a shitload of nagging injuries this season (neck, thumb). Part of me believes he would have missed a lot of time over these final months anyway. In fact, the timing of the way it all played out makes me think if he'd stayed on the DL until 50 games remained that his suspension would have only been 50 games. In other words, it would have been whatever was left in the season as long as it was at least 50 games.

 

Yeah ... after it sat in a Tupperware container in his house for two days.

That appeal was won by Braun for a reason ... Laurenzi didn't do his job right.

I'm surprised that those who want to punish the guilty want to ignore that fact, but if Laurenzi had dropped off the sample by protocol and to a location on-time, as he could have done, Braun never wins his appeal, he gets the punishment he deserved at the time, and we're not talking about this years later.

Again, it does not make Braun's post-appeal statements on Laurenzi defendable at all.