Braun tested positive [Update: Exonerated by technicality?]

[Slayer Rules]

Nobody is making you watch Dan Patrick exposés. 99% of sports news is all b-s fluff anyway, what exactly are you missing out on?

Well if you read the thread you'd understand that Patrick broke news on his "radio" (no watching required) show. That's how I found out about it.

Also - if you can't see that this drawn-out scenario is bad for MLB and their testing program, and likely will be the Topic of the Year if Braun is exonerated - go back to sleep.

lol wut?

"LOL WUT?"

He got a pretty mouth ain't he?

[StlSluggers]

Collector says he acted as instructed

A man identifying himself as the collector who took Ryan Braun's urine samples last fall said he followed the same protocol with the Milwaukee Brewers slugger as he had with hundreds of previous samples.
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"Given the lateness of the hour that I completed my collections, there was no FedEx office located within 50 miles of Miller Park that would ship packages that day or Sunday. Therefore, the earliest that the specimens could be shipped was Monday, October 3," Laurenzi said.

"In that circumstance, CDT has instructed collectors since I began in 2005 that they should safeguard the samples in their homes until FedEx is able to immediately ship the sample to the laboratory, rather than having the samples sit for one day or more at a local FedEx office," Laurenzi said in the statement.

Laurenzi said in the statement that he stored the samples in a "FedEx Clinic Pack in a Rubbermaid container in my office which is located in my basement. My basement office is sufficiently cool to store urine samples."

He added: "The protocol has been in place since 2005 when I started with CDT and there have been other occasions when I have had to store samples in my home for at least one day, all without incident."

Laurenzi said he has been a collector for Comprehensive Drug Testing since 2005, conducting more than 600 collections since then, in addition to postseason collections for five major league teams.

"I followed the same procedure in collecting Mr. Braun's sample as I did in the hundreds of other samples I collected under the program," Laurenzi said of his collection of Braun's urine samples on Oct. 1.

"I sealed the bottles containing Mr. Braun's A and B samples with specially numbered, tamper-resistant seals, and Mr. Braun signed a form certifying, among other things, that the specimens were capped and sealed in his presence and that the specimen identification numbers on the top of the form matched those on the seals."

[Tavish]

So what he is saying then is that every positive test result was likely tainted just like Braun's. I knew these guys were clean!

[Ender]

What he is saying is... Braun might file a lawsuit and I better cover my butt now. That is what most of the stuff coming out now is all about. Same way the testers say it wasn't tampered with when they run so many of these tests that it isn't very likely they would have even noticed if it was done carefully and there is no way to go back and make a more thorough check of it now. Until the arbitrator comes out with his information not much useful info will come out. I just want to hear if they confirm the stuff Will Carroll has been saying because that is the one thing that could 100% clear him for me.

[Inukchuk]

What he is saying is... Braun might file a lawsuit and I better cover my butt now. That is what most of the stuff coming out now is all about. Same way the testers say it wasn't tampered with when they run so many of these tests that it isn't very likely they would have even noticed if it was done carefully and there is no way to go back and make a more thorough check of it now. Until the arbitrator comes out with his information not much useful info will come out. I just want to hear if they confirm the stuff Will Carroll has been saying because that is the one thing that could 100% clear him for me.

I actually agree. I really don't want to jump to conclusions on either side until all the information is out there...

[mweir145]

Manny needed some better lawyers.

[StlSluggers]

Has the arbiter's ruling been released yet?

[Ender]

I dunno. It isn't technically supposed to be a public document so hard to know if and when we'll hear anything.