MLB 2013 Season Thread: TEFLON BRAUN Episode V: The Selig Strikes Back

[archibaldcrane]

Also fuck Jeff Bagwell. He doesn't deserve the Hall of Fame at all. Maybe the Hall of "He was good I guess"

If we assume he's clean (lol) was there a better clean hitter in his era?

[archibaldcrane]

Oh, actually I didn't realize this about him:

http://www.baseballnation.com/2011/1...l-hall-of-fame

[Mertron]

Oh, actually I didn't realize this about him:

http://www.baseballnation.com/2011/1...l-hall-of-fame

it took me a second to realize this was a very short article

[archibaldcrane]

it took me a second to realize this was a very short article

would you say that the shortness of the article is what, in fact, makes it amusing?

[Mertron]

fun is outlawed

[Bregor]

fun is outlawed

Good, no one likes that shitty "We Are Young" song anyway.

[archibaldcrane]

damn, jeff bagwell had a fucking 1.201 OPS in 1994. Only 9 players have done that in MLB history.

[Xajii]

Give me a break, that guy was sloppy. If MLB knew he was breaking protocol he should've been fired - and he was breaking protocol. Ruined life?

It's not like Braun was filing lawsuits or anything - he just made a bunch of "I don't know what happened in those 72 hours" statements - which was true. He never even accused Dino of tampering with the sample.

1. He threatened to sue Dino. He talked multiple times about him.
2. The quote cited by the user Glowstickwhatever earlier isn't supposed to show that anyone thinks the sample was tampered with; it hsows Braun was fully prepared to claim that it was.

He should have kept his mouth shut and I really wouldn't care about any of this if he had. Instead, he yapped on. It speaks to his character that he couldn't take a huge lucky break for what it was.

Also, the whole "team mates happy he was suspended" thing seems to come straight from Passan, lmao. What a loser that guy is. He appears to have pulled it directly out of his ass, because the clubhouse was closed at the time of the announcement, and the players are going to be asked about it after the game.

[archibaldcrane]

1. He threatened to sue Dino.

*source required

[Xajii]

*source required

source: any article about his press conference or just watch the press conference where he said he was "considering legal options"

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports...but_there.html
http://blacksportsonline.com/home/20...-urine-sample/

two found from 2 seconds of google, seems to be many others written with the same reference

[Mertron]

you know who looks really smart in all this

sosa and McGwire

never deny ped use. just "im not here to talk about the past" and "no hablo english" your way through interviews

[Bregor]

you know who looks really smart in all this

sosa and McGwire

never deny ped use. just "im not here to talk about the past" and "no hablo english" your way through interviews

Also McGwire covered himself in neck pouches, and Sosa turned white. The perfect crime.

[archibaldcrane]

source: any article about his press conference or just watch the press conference where he said he was "considering legal options"

Googling braun threatened to sue bring up basically nothing. Considering legal options (versus whom) does not equal braun threatened to sue dino.

[archibaldcrane]

But stay frothy

[Xajii]

Googling braun threatened to sue bring up basically nothing. Considering legal options (versus whom) does not equal braun threatened to sue dino.

come on man. what do you think it means? stay homer.

[Brill Weave]

At this point I don't even know why you guys are continuing to argue over this. Dude got caught. He was a lying sack of shit that gloated when he beat the system on a technicality. He got his pecker knocked in the dirt and apologized like the punk that he is. What's there to argue about/defend?

[Rhinox]

If we assume he's clean (lol) was there a better clean hitter in his era?

Frank Thomas

[Bregor]

At this point I don't even know why you guys are continuing to argue over this. Dude got caught. He was a lying sack of shit that gloated when he beat the system on a technicality. He got his pecker knocked in the dirt and apologized like the punk that he is. What's there to argue about/defend?

Brill, meet archi. archi, Brill.

[archibaldcrane]

come on man. what do you think it means? stay homer.

You think braun was more likely to sue Dino for being bad at his job, than suing mlb for leaking every aspect of his "confidential" arbitration hearing?

You can say he threatened to sue you personally if you like, using "exploring legal options" as your justification, but that doesn't make it so.

People want Braun to be Hitler Armstrong so badly to justify their perceived victimization complex as sports fans/reporters, they'll twist anything he says to fit their narrative. Dino was good at his job, braun accused him of tampering, braun threatened to sue him, etc. It's embarrassing.

[Rhinox]

Archi is trolling and all you fags are eating it up.