My personal stance is that I don't waste any energy hating or booing a player for taking drugs or doing stuff off the field. I boo Jeff Suppan. I like to keep it within the confines of the game being played. It's too easy to be made a fool taking a moral position on a guy you don't know from Adam. As an aside, the collector shouldn't be discussed anymore.
IMO, that was the most despicable thing Braun did. I know those two met for dinner after this entire thing was over, and he's made peace with Braun. If that's good enough for him, I'm done thinking about it. Lets keep in mind, too, that had the results of the first failed test never been leaked to the public leaked He would've failed the test, it would have been secret, he would've appealed and won, and that would've been it.
Obviously, he still would've been caught in the later investigation, but the whole ordeal with him lying about it never would've happened. If one of us, say, broke the law and went to court, yet our legal team felt strongly that we could win the case by pleading not guilty, Did he protest too much, yeah, probably. But the thing that people are pissed off about pissed Braun was backed into a corner and, aside from perhaps the volume of his protest, did exactly what anyone else would do.
He fought. You know what is sad to me? The fact that this hasn't been dropped, even now, years later, some Brewers fans still carry all this hate in their heart.
I have yet to talk to one Giants fan who acts towards Bonds like so many Brewers fans do to Braun. He's on our team, and I let it go a long time ago. I'll cheer for Ryan Braun today as much as I did pre-scandal.
He's a Brewer. Similar to Rafael Palmeiro. It has nothing to do with the actual act of taking steroids or even the initial lie, players do that all the time. All he had to do was apologize and give back his MVP and the whole thing would have blown over in a few months.
Instead he let it turn into a permanent cloud. Turborickey is right, Braun screwed up so badly that a large number of Brewers fans still hate him or cheer for him as a player but dislike him as a person. To the point that Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez now have better reputations. Who would have thought? Who is online. Search entire board Google search :. View all NL Central Sites. Louis Cardinals. More NL West News ». View all NL West Sites. More FanSided News ». More News Around the Network ».
View all Our Sites. View all AL East Sites. More AL Central News ». View all AL Central Sites. More AL West News ». View all AL West Sites. More NL East News ». View all NL East Sites. More NL Central News ». View all NL Central Sites. His initial positive test, from October of , had been overturned after Braun, and his legal team, waged a successful battle against the drug collector, Dino Laurenzi Jr.
Laurenzi had waited to deliver the specimens to the lab, instead of delivering them right away per his instructions. At least, we were until the Milwaukee Brewers launched an ad campaign urging folks to play by the rules and stay at home during the COVID pandemic.
The Brewers chose Ryan Braun as the poster boy for their ad campaign. Naturally, some portions of the baseball world reacted negatively to this decision.
Their reaction was understandable, Braun did use lies to successfully damage the life of a fellow human being to try and save face. To people outside of Milwaukee Braun is a pariah.
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