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The Brewers have a .777 regular season winning percentage when Mel Stocker plays.

Oh man, if only. Branyan would be a dream come true.

I'm not really a scientist, but that's irrelevant to the fact that urine is no longer sterile as soon as it leaves the body.

As long as he continues to OPS near 1.000 and isn't actually suspended for anything by baseball, I want him on my team. Drama sucks, but it's not a good enough reason to get rid of one of the best players in baseball.

Wait, are you seriously blaming this on Gamel being an inexperienced first baseman? Something about avoiding running into walls on a foul pop up down the right field line is vastly different than avoiding running into walls on a foul pop up down the left field line? Hell, Yonder Alonso is a natural first baseman and even he ended up faceplanting into the front row last night. It's was an unlucky injury, plain and simple.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Gamel go on the DL at some point this season for mouth cancer.

I strongly suggest everyone only discuss Michael Young, the HOF, and related topics from here on out in this thread.

Marcum is jumping aboard the Spring Training injury bandwagon too.

There are a number of people who feel that current drug testing really isn't good science.

Or wasn't it?

Or aren't you?

The sports media has been judge, jury, and executioner since the very beginning of this whole thing -- why stop now?

Oh, I'm not saying that it is deeply flawed. Just that MLB publicly feels that the whole Joint Drug Prevention And Treatment Program is absolutely perfect in every way, and acknowledging that something went wrong in the overall process in this particular case would be incomprehensible.

If this is true, I wonder how the vote was 2-1 and not 3-0 Because the dissenting vote was a representative of MLB, which is throwing a tantrum about the ruling instead of keeping its mouth shut and quietly accepting the decision like it should. MLBPA executive director and independent arbitrator Shyam Das were the other two votes. MLB and MLBPA are pretty much going to vote along the party lines, so Das is essentially the single deciding vote. If it was 3-0, MLB would more or less be admitting that the whole process is deeply flawed, and they'd rather look like petulant children than do that.

If you're referring to this, then I think you're reading too much into the comment. It's just stating that outside the chain of custody, something as extreme as that is possible, not that it actually happened in this case.