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If not guilty then why accept the ban. No way I ever admit to something I didnt do. His motivation for accepting a ban is once again predicated on money. He will be making more next year than this year so his reduction in take home would be greater next year under a ban. I would bet that is his sole motivation not the fact that his team is out of it this year. Why would we think its anything different.

Originally Posted by the 'stache

Of course I read his statement. Show me where he has ever admitted specifically to using PEDs.



I do not see the words "I used PED" anywhere in that statement.

CBS has the headline: "Ryan Braun admits PED use, suspended for rest of 2013"

Then they start the article off with "Braun admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, though he did not give any specifics."

The headline and that statement contradict each other. A player coming out and saying "I used steroids" is an admission of using steroids. A player saying "I made some mistakes" is a blanket statement that leaves a lot open to interpretation. Sports sites like ESPN, Yahoo and CBS can report it how they want. And maybe they're right. Maybe it's an 80 or 90% chance he used performance enhancers. But until the language is undeniable, I will still allow for the slim possibility that Braun used something else.

Who am I supposed to believe? ESPN? Major League Baseball, who's in bed with these lowlifes at Biogenesis? If a dog lies down with fleas, they're going to get bitten. So, show me the proof, otherwise there's always going to be doubt, and justifiably so.

You guys can call me a homer, or say that I'm wearing rose-colored glasses all you want. I've done a lot of research on the science involved in drug testing. Braun got off on a technicality? Or, maybe they screwed up his sample. Is it not possible?

Everybody was so sure Diane Modhal was cheating, too. The track and field star was found to have abnormal levels of testosterone in her system, and they basically ran over her the same way MLB has run over Braun. It was later proven that the laboratory mishandled her sample. She was exonerated. So maybe the collector in Braun's case didn't purposely screw with his sample. The opportunity was there. He's a Cubs fan, and if you guys are going to tell me that nobody would do something like that based on an allegiance to a team, I'd show you a tape of the Giants fan that got beaten by Dodgers fans because he was wearing his team's colors at Dodger Stadium. Even if he didn't mess with the sample, he did not do his job properly. Period. When procedures are not followed, the sample is considered tainted. And when you exclude that sample, you look at all the other samples Braun has given, all of which have been clean.

If baseball's case against Braun were in a criminal court, it would get laughed out of the courtroom. No physical or scientific proof whatsoever. Their entire case basically resides in the testimony of a bunch of lowlifes that baseball would have gone after were it not for their agreeing to testify against the MLB players under investigation.