rogers park bryan wrote:
Braun/A Rod is like watching McGwire and Sosa in 98
Every day one pulls ahead of the other
Every day one pulls ahead of the other
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| Author: | jimmypasta [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/95799 ... ources-say When the Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun accepted his 65-game suspension in an agreement under the drug-testing agreement, there was a strong, angry reaction from other players. Some of that may be because of phone calls Braun made in the days leading up to the decision of his appeal, in February 2012. According to sources, Braun called veteran players around baseball privately at that time to lobby for their support. In the calls -- confirmed by three sources -- Braun told other players that in the preparation for his appeal, some information had become known about the collector of his urine sample, Dino Laurenzi Jr., including that he was a Cubs fan -- with the implication he might work against Braun, who played for a division rival of the Cubs. Braun, who is Jewish, also told the players that he had been told the collector was an anti-Semite. The sources indicate that when Braun made his pleas for support to other players, he did so in anticipation of the possibility that he would lose his appeal. Instead, Braun became the first player to win an appeal. A person close to Braun forwarded this statement to ESPN: "Ryan isn't currently commenting on anything -- rumor or reality -- related to his arbitration process or his suspension. He has acknowledged his mistakes, accepted his punishment, and is beginning to make amends and will comment at an appropriate time." After his victory was announced, Braun referred obtusely to Laurenzi Jr. in the statement he made to reporters, in which he raised questions about his positive test. "When FedEx received the samples, it then creates a chain of custody at the FedEx location where he eventually brought my sample to," Braun said in the statement. "It would have been stored in a temperature-controlled environment, and FedEx is used to handling clinical packaging. But most importantly, you then would become a number and no longer a name. So when we provide our samples, there is a number and no longer a name associated with the sample. That way there can't be any bias -- whether it's with FedEx, while it's traveling, at the lab in Montreal, in any way -- based on somebody's race, religion, ethnicity, what team they play for, whatever the case may be. As players, the confidentiality of this process is extremely important. It's always been extremely important, because the only way for the process to succeed is for the confidentiality and the chain of custody to work. "Why he didn't bring it in, I don't know. On the day that he did finally bring it in, FedEx opened at 7:30. Why didn't he bring it in until 1:30? I can't answer that question. Why was there zero documentation? What could have possibly happened to it during that 44-hour period? There were a lot of things that we learned about the collector, about the collection process, about the way that the entire thing worked that made us very concerned and very suspicious about what could have actually happened." Braun is expected to speak publicly for the first time since his drug suspension very soon, perhaps as soon as Monday. A source with knowledge of his thinking says Braun wants to make things right again. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 4:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Not surprised. This guy screams chronic liar and asshole. |
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| Author: | rogers park bryan [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Braun/A Rod is like watching McGwire and Sosa in 98 Every day one pulls ahead of the other |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
If he was a Cub fan, wouldn't he want Braun to play in the hopes it would lead to a better draft pick for the Cubs? |
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| Author: | Furious Styles [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
rogers park bryan wrote: Braun/A Rod is like watching McGwire and Sosa in 98 Every day one pulls ahead of the other
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| Author: | Douchebag [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
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| Author: | Hatchetman [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Baseball sure has a lot of really bad guys in it. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
This can't end well for Braun. As bad as the Rodriguez thing is, the fact that this asshat was throwing around the anti-Semitic card really is overboard. Remind me again why this urine guy didn't sue Braun? I would assume these latest comments from Braun wouldn't hold up in court, but given he was proved to have doped, you would think that could give him some leverage. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote: This can't end well for Braun. As bad as the Rodriguez thing is, the fact that this asshat was throwing around the anti-Semitic card really is overboard. Remind me again why this urine guy didn't sue Braun? I would assume these latest comments from Braun wouldn't hold up in court, but given he was proved to have doped, you would think that could give him some leverage. I am sure now he is preparing a law suit after smart guy Braun started talking. And people wonder why I usually hate teams hiring ex athletes in front office positions, they live in a different world. |
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| Author: | Dallas Winston [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 2:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Wow! Playing both the race card AND Cub fan card. What a colossal douche! |
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| Author: | KDdidit [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 2:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Braun will keep his lead in the being an asshole book for the foreseeable future because fuck the Yankees and Bud Selig. If we accept all the shit the MLB has "leaked" as true I see no problem believing that the Yankees hid the MRI results of ARods busted hip from him last year to let him come back and injure himself even worse so they could get some insurance $ back. Randy Levine is a giant shitheel. |
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| Author: | Gloopan Kuratz [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Somehow it would seem apropos that the urine guy is a Cubs fan. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
I remember stuff from Braun's rookie year about how he wasn't really practicing or self-identifying and so he wasn't totally comfortable with being the Great Jewish Hope. Guess he's comfortable now. |
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| Author: | Hawg Ass [ Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Braun called "urine guy" anti-semite Cubs fan! |
Gloopan Kuratz wrote: Somehow it would seem apropos that the urine guy is a Cubs fan.
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