October 20, 2018

Boo Braun

Nancy Armour tries to rehabilitate Ryan Braun’s image, and whitewashes the real problem:

But on July 22, 2013, Braun tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and was banned for the rest of the season.

His reputation, his legacy – everything changed. He’s still booed in some ballparks. Some fans will never see him as anything more than a cheater, and believe he’s the last person who deserves a shot at baseball’s ultimate prize.

Fair enough. But say this for Braun: he stayed in the fish bowl that is Milwaukee when many other players — let’s be honest, most other players — would have fled.

He stayed through the criticism. He stayed through the questions. He even stayed through the rebuild that made him wonder if he’d ever get close to a postseason again.

Not noted here is that the original suspension was appealed won. In appealing Braun besmirched the reputation of an honest man. The actual suspension came about due to the Biogenesis scandal, which showed the original suspension was deserved. Braun is disliked because he cheated with drugs, then cheated to get off from the suspension. All he really had to say was, “I should have been more careful in my choice of supplements,” and most would have forgiven and forgotten. Bruan did something worse than that, and deserves to be booed.

3 thoughts on “Boo Braun

  1. Gary

    I’m not defending Braun or any other cheater. I truly believe that the almost all knew what they were doing.

    This https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2706496 is really bad news for anyone wanting to damn every PED user.

    [quote]Results: From 2007 through 2016, 776 adulterated dietary supplements were identified by the FDA and 146 different dietary supplement companies were implicated. Most of these products were marketed for sexual enhancement (353 [45.5%]), weight loss (317 [40.9%]), or muscle building (92 [11.9%]), with 157 adulterated products (20.2%) containing more than 1 unapproved ingredient. The most common adulterants were sildenafil for sexual enhancement supplements (166 of 353 [47.0%]), sibutramine for weight loss supplements (269 of 317 [84.9%]), and synthetic steroids or steroid-like ingredients for muscle building supplements (82 of 92 [89.1%]).[/quote]

    What a great way to sell supplements: put some PEDs in them. I bet most people that use them keep using them thinking that they are really working. The person off of the street might never know. I bet my local grocery store sold PED tainted supplements.

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  2. Luis Venitucci

    AND Braun besmirched the name of a man who did his job, causing him to be fired, all the while KNOWING that he, Braun, was lying…

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  3. rbj

    Yeah, besmirching a guy and causing him to lose a (part time) job make it worse. And then he doesn’t wipe his brow and breathe a sigh of relief, instead he doubles down.

    Character is one of the qualification for the HoF.

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