OT| Braun Suspended for rest of season

[X]

holy shit.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/07/mlb-suspends-ryan-braun-for-remainder-of-season.html

 

[Heisenberg]

Not surprising.

 

[czman]

Can they make it stick?

 

[JosMin]

Fuckin' finally. What an idiot. His quote of "I realize now I made some mistakes," is an absolutely crock. Oh, so you NOW finally realized that doing steroids, then lying about it, was a mistake? Good call, slick. Look, I could care less if a guy takes steroids. If he plays his whole career and gets away with it, good for him. But don't sit there and lie about what you've done, then throw the specimen collector under the bus, even though he did his job the entire time. Be a man, admit you broke the rules and suffer the consequences.

Fuck Ryan Braun.

 

[Capt. Serious]

A-Roid should be next.

 

[Rustysurf83]

It would be nice if he could have accepted the consequences before he felt the need to ruin some persons life to save his own hide. What a fucking dirtbag, I would refuse to cheer for any team he plays for. Regular PED users are bad enough, but this is very much like a Lance Armstrong situation.

 

[inactiveuser1]

Good riddance

 

[daddies3angels]

I hope the delivery driver Sue the hell out of him

 

[Rustysurf83]

I know that it doesn't apply in the MIL/Braun situation, but do failed tests, admissions, etc give a team any options to void a contract? Say in an ARod/NYY situation where it certainly appears that the team no longer wants the dude.

 

[Parade_Rain]

I know that it doesn't apply in the MIL/Braun situation, but do failed tests, admissions, etc give a team any options to void a contract? Say in an ARod/NYY situation where it certainly appears that the team no longer wants the dude.

I could see that getting written into future contracts. What is important is if the majority of players in the union want this nonsense to stop.



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[Shawon0Meter]

MVP! MVP! MVP!

sffsdsd

 

[Franko725]

Can they make it stick?

He essentially plead guilty to the charges for a reduced suspension. Not only is he going to have to do the suspension as handed down, but I think that this will cause the others in the investigation to take a plea as well. If they do not, I think that you will see a lot of them with some major suspension time. From what I was hearing on the radio on the way home, they are not sure if the discussed suspension for Braun was going to be facing 100 games or more. A first offense would have only netted him 50 games, so this was definitely a deal.

As far as the A-Rod deal goes, I am not sure exactly what sort of contract wording he has, but from my understanding of the CBA, there is no recourse for the teams other than the guy having to serve the suspension unpaid. The Brewers for instance will not have to pay the approx. 3.5 million to Braun remaining this season, but will have to pay him the 110 million that he has left after this season.

 

[mountsalami]

Fuckin' finally. What an idiot. His quote of "I realize now I made some mistakes," is an absolutely crock. Oh, so you NOW finally realized that doing steroids, then lying about it, was a mistake? Good call, slick. Look, I could care less if a guy takes steroids. If he plays his whole career and gets away with it, good for him. But don't sit there and lie about what you've done, then throw the specimen collector under the bus, even though he did his job the entire time. Be a man, admit you broke the rules and suffer the consequences.

Fuck Ryan Braun.

Did you forget to drink your warm milk and take a nap ?

 

[Mr. Cub]

I seen something the other day where they said there wouldn't be any suspensions from this this year..... ESPN sucks haha

Now I wonder what's going to happen with A-Rod and the others..

 

[Willrust]

Anybody else see the major flaw in in the system? What is the point of popping all of these players for PED's if they are just going to be taking away the geese that are laying the golden eggs? Time to cut the heads of the snakes. If a player gets caught with HGH or roids they get at 1 year ban 1st offense. If they agree to name the supplier, the suspension gets reduced to 50 games.

 

[The Bandit]

lol good. Fuck Ryan Braun. Hope A-Roid is next.

 

[brett05]

What Braun did was against the rules, but that doesn't make him guilty the first time around. Public opinion yes, but not legally the first time around.

 

[X]

What Braun did was against the rules, but that doesn't make him guilty the first time around. Public opinion yes, but not legally the first time around.

Every single report I've read said he failed the first drug test...

He's a liar. He's a cheater. He's a baby. And he should do everything over the next 65 games to get a certain out-of-work specimen collector a job.

 

[brett05]

Every single report I've read said he failed the first drug test...

He's a liar. He's a cheater. He's a baby. And he should do everything over the next 65 games to get a certain out-of-work specimen collector a job.

Again you don't know because procedure wasn't followed

 

[BBQb]

Anybody else see the major flaw in in the system? What is the point of popping all of these players for PED's if they are just going to be taking away the geese that are laying the golden eggs? Time to cut the heads of the snakes. If a player gets caught with HGH or roids they get at 1 year ban 1st offense. If they agree to name the supplier, the suspension gets reduced to 50 games.

Yep, and not only that, he (Braun) loses out on around 3.5 mil. But he get's paid next year and the rest of his 100 mil contract if he doesn't get "caught" again. It's crap.

Until the contracts can have it written into them, 50 games or even 100 is more like "the best we can do" punishment attitude. Or else they can just let everyone take whatever they want.

The bottom line in all of this, you have players that don't get caught and those that do. And I'm sure the majority of the players don't mess with it.