The MLB suspended twelve players for 50 games. ARod’s suspension has yet to be announced. Also, what is Biogenesis?
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Sweet Chin Muzak – What Baseball Should Do About The Steroid Issue
I love discussing steroids. Growing up as a wrestling fan and now also following MMA closely, I feel like I’ve been aware of steroids for longer than most, including many sports writers today. The fact that writers were defending Ryan Braun instead of calling him out for his technicality after his test failure in which his epi-testosterone to testosterone level was the highest ever tested tells me that. Ahem, Jeff Fletcher . In the last couple weeks, two productive players have been suspended […]
Sweet Chin Muzak: Ryan Braun Wins On Technicality
Ryan Braun’s steroid suspension was overturned on Thursday after arbitrator Shyam Das ruled for the Milwaukee Brewers’ slugger in his appeal on his positive test for performance enhancing drugs. Braun’s sample from October 1, 2011 turned up positive for synthetic testosterone, but because the sample wasn’t delivered to the lab on the same day it was taken, the drug testing process was called into question. Braun called the process “fatally flawed” and was quoted as saying, “I don’t honestly know […]
Roger Clemens: What a Dope
When you’ve competed to win your entire life, it stands to reason that most people would take whatever shortcut they can to ensure success. So by that token, I understand why performance-enhancing drugs became so prevalent in Major League Baseball in the late Nineties. What I don’t understand is how a few players are so intent on saving their legacies that they’ll risk their freedom to preserve their legacies. OR, maybe Roger Clemens has been telling the truth all along […]