Fantasy Baseball Prep
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Ryan Braun #BEATEMDOWN
on 1/3/12
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(via SBNation) arrives with the first episode of his new Web series Bomani & Jones.
"In Defense of Ryan Braun"
on 27/2/12
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The "war" on steroids always has been Kafka rewritten by Lewis Carroll. It is always going to have victims like Ryan Braun — or, worse, some player is guaranteed one day to be the victim of a demonstrably false positive result — because that is the nature of all authoritarian solutions.
(via Grantland.com) , describing "the undeniable idiocy of baseball's steroids 'crisis.'"
RELATED: "The arbitration process creates an incentive for an arbitrator to worry about his own record above all else, even the particulars of the case at hand. This isn't necessarily a bad thing—the process tilts toward fairness in a macro sense instead of justice in the micro." (Tommy Craggs, Deadspin, with a good theory about why the arbitration ruling broke the way it did.)
RELATED: "The arbitration process creates an incentive for an arbitrator to worry about his own record above all else, even the particulars of the case at hand. This isn't necessarily a bad thing—the process tilts toward fairness in a macro sense instead of justice in the micro." (Tommy Craggs, Deadspin, with a good theory about why the arbitration ruling broke the way it did.)
Ryan Braun's Self-Defense
on 25/2/12
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Who are you going to believe, science or those big gorgeous eyes?
(via Yahoo Sports)
ANOTHER TAKE: "The Ryan Braun Vindication and Exoneration Tour was officially underway." (Jerry Crasnick, ESPN.com)
ANOTHER TAKE: "The Ryan Braun Vindication and Exoneration Tour was officially underway." (Jerry Crasnick, ESPN.com)
Ryan Braun Speaks
on 24/2/12
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"The simple truth is that I'm innocent. I've maintained my innocence from day one. And ultimately, I was proven to be innocent. And beyond that, I truly appreciate everyone's support."
(via SBNation on Twitter)
REAX: "When it comes to disputing drug test results, Ryan Braun is the most convincing athlete I've ever seen." (ProFootballTalk's Michael David Smith)
MORE: "Sure, lawyers helped Braun prepare for presser, but lawyers alone can't muster combo of poise, detail, emotion, clarity he just showed." (Sports Business Journal's Eric Fisher)
CONTEXT: ESPN.com's David Schoenfield put together a good rundown of interesting takes on the Braun story. (Here is Quickish's stream.)
REAX: "When it comes to disputing drug test results, Ryan Braun is the most convincing athlete I've ever seen." (ProFootballTalk's Michael David Smith)
MORE: "Sure, lawyers helped Braun prepare for presser, but lawyers alone can't muster combo of poise, detail, emotion, clarity he just showed." (Sports Business Journal's Eric Fisher)
CONTEXT: ESPN.com's David Schoenfield put together a good rundown of interesting takes on the Braun story. (Here is Quickish's stream.)
Ryan Braun: Local Reax
on 24/2/12
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No one except Ryan Braun will ever know with absolute certainty whether he pulled off the image-salvaging equivalent of an unassisted triple play during a perfect game. But if the decision handed down Thursday reflects absolute truth as I sense it does, does anyone owe Braun an apology for his reputation being given the bug-under-the-magnifying-glass treatment for the last 10 weeks?
(via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Get more must-read reactions to the Braun news here.
Get more must-read reactions to the Braun news here.
Ryan Braun Reax, Cont'd: What To Believe?
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But now, we don't know quite what was proven. Now, we remain free to believe what we want to believe. The conspiracy theorists will see a cover-up. The Ryan Braun Fan Club will see its favorite fallen hero walking out from under this awful cloud. And the rest of us? We'll just be as confused as ever -- thanks to a ruling that cleared an MVP but, in reality, cleared up nothing at all.
(via ESPN.com)
MORE NATIONAL REAX: "This was supposed to prove testing works. Instead, it exposed the program’s fallibility." (Jeff Passan, Yahoo Sports)
MORE NATIONAL REAX: "This was supposed to prove testing works. Instead, it exposed the program’s fallibility." (Jeff Passan, Yahoo Sports)
Ryan Braun Reax
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Baseball’s frustration is understandable. Their doping cops nabbed a big name and let him get away. Braun is a free man, but he still must give a good reason for how he got into this mess.
(via New York Times) , adding: "Anything less than a full explanation will leave lingering doubts, at least among people who consider his case beyond the surface. He won on a technicality; there’s no other way to say it."
Ryan Braun: Last Word (For Now)
on 23/2/12
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Ryan Braun Cleared (MLB Not Happy)
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*So the difference between "chain of custody was broken" and "I thought it was flaxseed oil" is...? (SI's Joe Sheehan)
*My next drug test I'm totally using the Kinkos-was-closed-and-I-was-forced-to-refrigetrate-my-urine-overnight excuse. (Yahoo Sports' Brad Evans)
*Braun should heretofore be considered clean ballplayer. Unfair to think otherwise. News of test should never have gotten out (CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman)
*"While we have always respected that process, Major League Baseball vehemently disagrees with the decision rendered today by arbitrator Shyam Das." (MLB)
*I don't know whether to respect MLB for their honesty or roll my eyes at them for being sore losers. (Baseball Prospectus' Emma Span)
*And if MLB did mishandle evidence, its PED testing is more of a joke than we thought. Makes you question the whole thing. (Deadspin's Barry Petchesky)
*"It's frankly unreal. And it's a kick in the gut to clean athletes."
(USADA CEO Travis Tygert, via Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan)
*Chain of custody a technicality? It's critical to fair drug policy, and is mentioned 33 times in the MLB drug policy. (Tulane Sports Law Center's Gabe Feldman)
*What a phenomenal lift for the Brewers. Had Braun gone into camp suspended, the atmosphere would've been somber. Now, tremendously upbeat.
(Yahoo's Jeff Passan)
*So at what point do I receive an apology for having my Christmas party unnecessarily interrupted last December? (Yahoo's Kevin Kaduk)
*This, by the way, is how it's supposed to work. If the penalty is 50 games and millions of $, the process better be PRISTINE. (SI's Joe Sheehan)
*You know the real winner here is? The guy who kept overdrafting Braun in mocks because of the potential upside. Ahem. (Joe Sheehan)
*When Ryan Braun hired Jeremy Lin as his defense counsel, you knew it was over. (Erik Malinowski)
*Will someone let me know whether or not it's time to forgive Ryan Braun? I'm a little lost. (ESPN's Gabe Goodwin) (via Twitter)
*My next drug test I'm totally using the Kinkos-was-closed-and-I-was-forced-to-refrigetrate-my-urine-overnight excuse. (Yahoo Sports' Brad Evans)
*Braun should heretofore be considered clean ballplayer. Unfair to think otherwise. News of test should never have gotten out (CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman)
*"While we have always respected that process, Major League Baseball vehemently disagrees with the decision rendered today by arbitrator Shyam Das." (MLB)
*I don't know whether to respect MLB for their honesty or roll my eyes at them for being sore losers. (Baseball Prospectus' Emma Span)
*And if MLB did mishandle evidence, its PED testing is more of a joke than we thought. Makes you question the whole thing. (Deadspin's Barry Petchesky)
*"It's frankly unreal. And it's a kick in the gut to clean athletes."
(USADA CEO Travis Tygert, via Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan)
*Chain of custody a technicality? It's critical to fair drug policy, and is mentioned 33 times in the MLB drug policy. (Tulane Sports Law Center's Gabe Feldman)
*What a phenomenal lift for the Brewers. Had Braun gone into camp suspended, the atmosphere would've been somber. Now, tremendously upbeat.
(Yahoo's Jeff Passan)
*So at what point do I receive an apology for having my Christmas party unnecessarily interrupted last December? (Yahoo's Kevin Kaduk)
*This, by the way, is how it's supposed to work. If the penalty is 50 games and millions of $, the process better be PRISTINE. (SI's Joe Sheehan)
*You know the real winner here is? The guy who kept overdrafting Braun in mocks because of the potential upside. Ahem. (Joe Sheehan)
*When Ryan Braun hired Jeremy Lin as his defense counsel, you knew it was over. (Erik Malinowski)
*Will someone let me know whether or not it's time to forgive Ryan Braun? I'm a little lost. (ESPN's Gabe Goodwin) (via Twitter)
