Braun Suspended for Balance of the 2013 Season

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IMO, Braun maybe the only suspension out of this fracas. It is tough to believe that MLB would want the PR nightmare of spreading out these less than favorable announcements of these image shattering PED suspensions...if anything, they would want to make all the suspension announcements at one time in order to be minimize the PR nightmare/fallout.

Ironically, they even announced Braun's suspension on the same day that England's newest Prince was born(an easily predictable event). While Braun's suspension is quite news worthy (for all of the wrong reasons), the story was completely minimized by the birth of the Prince. This is likely just want MLB wanted...it appears to be no coincidence that MLB waited for a busy news day where the Braun story could be buried by another huge (worldwide) media event.

Three of the names mentioned with this scandal included Braun, Cabrera, and Colon. All three have failed PED tests, while only the latter two have served 50 game suspensions. Likely, MLB did not further penalize either of these two as they had already served 50 gamers. IMO, without negative test results for the other players linked to the scandal, MLB will be hardpressed to prove anything about these players alleged use of PEDs or involvement with Biogenesis.

Braun was simply lowhanging fruit for MLB because he did have a failed PED test (that likely linked him to Biogensis) as evidence and had not served a suspension.