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Ryan Braun: “I was Wrongly Accused”

Posted on 26 Feb 2012 at 6:10am

Braun breathed a public sigh of relief because he won’t be ditched for 50 games for testing positive for elevated testosterone, and apparently Ryan Braun’s reputation has been restored.

“We won because the truth is on my side,” Braun said as teammates listened from the stands at the Brewers facility in Phoenix. He stood alone at a microphone at Milwaukee Brewers spring training camp in Arizona and told MLB (Major League Baseball) what it could do while in drug testing program process.  Ryan

The very best legal advice possible supported Braun to win. The Associated Press had this as a report:

‘Braun detailed how the urine sample he provided on Oct. 1, the day the Brewers opened the playoffs, was not delivered to Federal Express until Oct. 3. Baseball’s drug agreement calls for samples to be delivered to FedEx on the same day they are collected.

And so, on Thursday night, the arbitrator with a Jedi’s name —  Shyam Das — ruled in Braun’s favor. It’s the first time an appeal of this nature at the major-league level has been sustained. And it’s pretty simple as to why. No mind tricks were necessary. Perhaps Braun’s legal team could have fought the suspension in other ways, but they didn’t need to. Braun had MLB dead to rights on the rules.

No matter what the sample collector did with Braun’s urine — even if he kept it safe in a special urine-only refrigerator with deadbolt locks and a pee guard dog — it doesn’t matter. The rules say he had to express the sample to the testing facility on the same day, and he didn’t.’

Braun has been privately telling Gaby Sanchez, the Marlins first baseman about the something wrong in drug testing. He told his friend and former University of Miami teammate that he was ‘wrongly accused’ over a positive drug test and said it to the public Friday.

“I am the victim of a process that completely broke down and failed,” Braun said one day after his 50-game suspension was overturned on appeal, calling it as the fatally flawed process.

Braun also showed his disappointment toward the fact in the judicial process– which put him as a part of a process where you’re 100 percent guilty until proven innocent and it’s the opposite of the American judicial system– and to the media which have leaked the inaccurate info.

“Despite the fact there have been many inaccurate, erroneous and completely fabricated stories regarding this issue, I’ve maintained the confidentiality of this process,” Braun said. “There’s never been a ‘personal medical issue,’ I’ve never had an STD many of the original stories reported by the original network have continued to live on and it’s sad that people continue to leak information that’s inaccurate.”

The Red Sox Center Fielder Made the Club History by Joining the 30-30 Club

The Red Sox Center Fielder Made the Club History by Joining the 30-30 Club

Posted on 26 Sep 2011 at 9:44am

Jacoby Ellsbury is an American professional baseball center fielder with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. In 2011, Ellsbury started the year hitting .314 with 25 home runs and 90 RBIs. Ellsbury who holds Oregon High School State Records of batting average of .567 with being caught stealing only once and 7 stolen bases in a game became the first member of the Boston Red Sox to join the 30-30 club on September 25, 2011. Ellsbury became the member of the 30-30 club because he recorded 30 home runs and 38 stolen bases in his MLB career.

Jacoby Ellsbury hit a pair of solo homers Sunday off the Yankees’ A.J. Burnett and both solo homers were shot to right field. The first long ball came in the top of the fourth in the first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, cutting New York’s lead to 4-1, while the second came in the sixth to cut make it 5-2. Ellsbury’s second homer also gave him 100 RBI for the season. Ellsbury has 38 steals which put him within the reach of a 30-40 season. He attempted a steal of second in the first inning of the early game, but was caught for the 15th time this season.

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