Ryan Braun tests positive for PEDs

[elcheato]

No Braun.

No Fielder.

No Pujols.

NL Central just got easier.

 

[Elite]

Cubs still suck though

 

[Pugz]

IT PAYS TO BE DIRTY!

 

[.infamous]

Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun is passionately fighting a positive performance-enhancing drug test result that would land him a 50-game suspension if upheld at an arbitration hearing in January. His side of the story: the result was false — a false positive.

Braun told Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel late Saturday night that he’s “completely innocent” of using synthetic testosterone, and now a source close to the 2011 National League MVP has suggested to Teri Thompson of the New York Daily News that the results of the positive test were too high to be taken seriously. As in, they were at a dangerous level.

Here’s more from Thompson and the Daily News:

Ryan Braun’s original test for performance-enhancing drugs as the playoffs were winding down in October was “insanely high, the highest ever for anyone who has ever taken a test, twice the level of the highest test ever taken,” said a source familiar with the developing case in which Ryan was reported to have tested positive for an elevated level of testosterone caused by a synthetic substance, triggering a possible 50-game suspension.

The never-before-seen ratio, according to the source, is one of several “highly unusual circumstances.”

Braun will likely enlist doctors and health experts to help plead his case — that an elite athlete wouldn’t mess around with such crazy levels of testosterone. But here’s the other side: Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports spoke Sunday with a source connected to the World Anti-Doping Agency — a group of scientists who got a look at Braun’s test sample — and was told that a false-positive is “almost impossible.”

Also, a source told the Daily News that Major League Baseball has never overturned a PED test appeal. Players are 0-for-13. So even if the almost-impossible happened, it might not really matter for Braun

 

[Elite]

“The best thing he can do is come out, admit to everything and be completely honest,’’ Braun said of Rodriguez in an interview with mlb.com. “The situation will die a lot faster if he tells the whole truth.”

Braun said that when A-Rod's thing came out, time to follow your own advice.

 

[NV]

Unless he really is innocent.

 

[elcheato]

It just seems weird that he would start taking PEDs right near the end of his MVP season.