It’s not good news. It’s a tecnicality. The collector kept the sample in his fridge over the weekend and was unable to account with 100% certainty to its’ safekeeping. He broke the chain of custody and the sample became inadmissable in the eyes of the arbitrator.
Had the collector done his job and delivered the sample to FedEx Braun would be sitting for 50 games.
Lets see what Braun has to say today. I’m a huge Braun fan and he’s never shown anything throughout his career that screams PED user. This “technicality” meme is ESPN/MLB getting ready to cover its ass over what I hope would be a defamation lawsuit by Ryan Braun.
Will Carroll (well versed in PED world) on SI has been tweeting since last night (he’s in Cancun on vacation) that this is not just a broken chain but other serious questions about how easily the Braun side was able to repeat the out of wack P/E under normal conditions. As he put it its not just chain of evidence, but science. He said he has an article that will run soon so I’m waiting to hear on that also.
One other note. Braun asked/offered to give a DNA sample to compare against the urine sample and MLB refused.
Strike the DNA thing its been retracted.