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No, it's not kind of like that at all.

It turns out that the chicken was just sitting around for a couple days, though, so it's totally fine to eat.

If there really is more to the story and Braun is truly innocent, he's a bigger man than I would be in keeping his mouth shut about all the details. There's no way in hell that I would let MLB ruin my reputation, quite possibly for the rest of my life, just because it might be in the "best interests" of baseball. No way.

The goal is to make you feel uncomfortable. Stupid, obviously, but that's generally why people are mean to others. they just want them to feel bad in some way. I rarely wear any sort of Brewers/Packers/Bucks gear at away games (I've worn a Packers hat) - there's no upside to it. I'll cheer for my team, of course, but not in a way that draws a lot of attention.

It will be leaked. That's what happens in this information age. Also, I keep giggling every time the word "leak" is used in conjunction with a urine test.

I didn't even read the article, but I had to laugh when I saw the headline on ESPN.com: "Braun collector thorough, a pro, Cubs say." http://i.imgur.com/zi5Kw.gif

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Guys, check it out. It's a great Ryan Braun t-shirt.

Excellent spam, terrible shirt.

Mixing the samples would explain why Craig Counsell retired. He didn't want to face suspension when they figure out the mistake.

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If someone wants to teach me how to use one of those testing machines, I'll take out a big loan, buy an empty lab, buy a machine, hire a few people, and run all of MLB's peepee tests to infinity and beyond. I'm really smart. I also won the botany category in my high school's science fair and followed that up with a top-six finish in the SE Wisconsin science fair (botany category, not overall - I mean, come on). I got like all A's in my science classes, too.

What the national headline should read: Collector in Braun Case Says Something Totally Not Earth Shattering

Also, I would imagine the pee smelled terrible after a couple days of just sitting around. This is an important detail that has yet to be explored.

a) money b) relief that the free agent process is over c) back to a place he had a lot of fun as a kid Completely understandable that he'd be very happy right now. Not everything national media types say is an insult to Milwaukee and Wisconsin.

I'm sure it will be a very informative statement.

A mod should move this to the "Do the Brewers have the best outfield in baseball 2-5" thread.

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In before "we should offer Dukes a minor league contract."

I actually double-checked the date on the second issue to make sure I didn't receive the same one. I like Jeremy Lin and all and hope he does great, but yeah, that was pretty silly.

Probably not. They'll just write another article with an opinion that reflects the new information. Apology is unlikely. I write for a poker news site and while I don't really consider myself a "journalist," as I rarely get my information first-hand, I do try to make sure I always have the facts straight. If I'm not sure of all the details, I make sure I write as much and/or present multiple possibilities. Most of the time, I don't editorialize, as I'm just writing news, but when I do write an opinion piece, I try to be fair. It's funny, I ran into a situation recently where I basically wrote an article where the main point of it was totally incorrect. The World Series of Poker was getting ready to announce the schedule for this year and they tweeted some teasers, one of which was that there would be no "November Nine" this year (for those who don't follow poker, a few years ago, the final table of the big $10,000 Main Event that most of you have probably seen on ESPN was moved to November from July for various reasons - changing it back to July would be a very big deal). As soon as I saw that tweet, I posted an article ASAP because hey, that's huge stuff. The next day, when the schedule was announced, it turns out that the "November Nine" was simply moved to October because of the Presidential Election. I was soooooo pissed. Rather than removing the article or writing a new one (though I wrote a separate one with schedule details), I changed the headline to reflect the fake-out by the WSOP tweet, added an italicized note at the top of the article, and did a bunch of strikethroughs to show any changes. I did all that partly out of stubbornness and partly for humor purposes so people could see how the WSOP totally screwed me up.

They should also splurge a little and go with same-day or next-morning delivery.

Thanks, pebadger. Looks like I have some re-reading to do!

Maybe this was covered earlier in the thread and I just don't remember, but the big thing that is still confusing to me is how the second test came back positive for synthetic testosterone if Braun was, in fact, totally clean. I've read about how the initial test could return crazy T:E ratios if the test was delayed and sample wasn't properly stored, but I've also read that that would have no bearing on synthetic testosterone readings. To me, that's still the one thing that doesn't make me 100% confident that Braun was clean; all the other evidence, circumstances, history, logic add up "positively" (no pun intended) for Braun.

Love the wording in the JSOnline headline: "Ryan Braun vehemently proclaims, explains innocence"