[USML Announce] Anyone Surprised About This Story

Fri Feb 24 10:50:41 EST 2012

Now, Mr. B., you know better.  The proceeding was to establish whether 
he would be suspended.  Not whether he was guilty or innocent.  As a 
skilled litigator, surely you recognize that the sole objective of his 
counsel was to "win", i.e. avoid the suspension.  They won on a 
technicality that was brilliantly raised.  They also raised questions 
about whether a testosterone level that was 20 times average and at an 
almost unprecedented level bolstered their claim that the sample had 
been altered.  They also noted raised the fact that a subsequent test 
taken immediately after the "positive" came back negative.  Add to that 
the fact that the drug in question wasn't steroids and I think you owe 
Mr. Braun the benefit of the doubt.

Most importantly, though, the results were supposed to be confidential. 
  MLB sucks for leaking the result.  MLB also sucks for making a 
statement after the results of the appeal.  Total BS.

We can discuss this further at lunch.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Blocker, Mark B. <mblocker at Sidley.com>
To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
Sent: Fri, Feb 24, 2012 9:10 am
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Anyone Surprised About This Story

Oh, I believe he is innocent, sure.  As I understand the facts, his 
defense was that yeah, he was using steroids, but that the mlb guy 
should have hurried to get his sample to fed-ex on Saturday, and when 
he didn’t, end of story.  That’s convincing to me.  Plus, while not 
much has been reported about this, I heard that during the arbitration, 
he was asked to try on Prince Fielder’s batting glove, and it did not 
fit, and well, you know the legal rule concerning ill fitting gloves.  
Count me among the skeptical for now.

 From: announce-bounces at usml.net [mailto:announce-bounces at usml.net] On 
Behalf Of springkerb at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:47 PM
To: announce at usml.net
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Anyone Surprised About This Story

Good writer, great reporter. And this story begs for reporting (beyond 
Braun's people saying he's been vindicated and the anti-doping folks 
saying he's getting a free pass). But unfortunately, she's busy (and 
she's not a sportswriter). I hope somebody will do the story right, but 
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Winick <jhwinick at aol.com>
To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 8:33 pm
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Anyone Surprised About This Story

No. Your wife is a GREAT writer. Now, what would it cost to get her to 
freelance the story?

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 23, 2012, at 8:04 PM, springkerb at aol.com wrote:

I actually wasn't kidding about the "if I could put Karen on it" part. 
My wife is a really good reporter and most sports writers aren't.

-----Original Message-----
From: dadams17 at gmail.com
To: USML Announcements
Sent: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 2:13 pm
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Anyone Surprised About This Story

In all seriousness, a friend of mine from Milwaukee told me 2 weeks ago 
he heard a story about how Braun had herpes and was taking some sort of 
medication for that which had a steroid in it.  Given the secrecy 
surrounding the situation, I would not be surprised if that's true.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:07 PM, <springkerb at aol.com> wrote:

I think the joint tucked behind the ear was going to screw up the 
attempt to hide the evidence.

However, when I saw the re line on your e-mail, I thought you would be 
asking about Ryan Braun beating the MLB on his positive.  Now there's 
an interesting story.  I haven't seen any quality reporting on it yet, 
though, so I don't know what to think.  If I could put Karen on it for 
about 24 hours, I'd know the real deal on that one.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Robbins <rerobbins at itinker.net>
To: USML Announcements <announce at usml.net>
Sent: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 6:14 pm
Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Anyone Surprised About This Story

Another incredible example of a waste of magnificent talent.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Dennis Adams <dadams17 at gmail.com> 
wrote:

The only thing surprising is that nothing was actually lit, just tucked 
everywhere on his body (his lap, behind his ear, etc).  This is more 
surprising:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7608360/ryan-braun-wins-appeal-50-game-suspension

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Richard Robbins 
<rerobbins at itinker.net> wrote:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7608635/former-mlb-player-elijah-dukes-arrested-again-florida 

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