Ryan Braun's "Dissent" and Roy Halladay Trade Talks

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When Ryan Braun publicly commented about the types of moves he felt the Brewers should make during a post-game press conference last weekend, I don’t think he figured it would cause the stir it did.

Of course, ESPN and other news outlets took the comments out of context.

They made it seem as though Braun was attempting to pick at Brewers GM Doug Melvin and the job he’s done so far, as though he should have already made a move.

Here are Braun’s comments:

"We're at the point right now where it would be important for us to go out there and acquire somebody.

"I know (Melvin) is trying to make our ball club better. I know he recognizes the importance of making a move and making it soon, but at the same time I think everybody's recognized there's a lot of teams that are still in the race.

"With that being said, it would be nice to make a move to help us out for the time being. The sooner we do it, the better.

"It's always important to have some momentum going into the second half and to show everybody that we're for real so we can go out there and make a move and improve our ball club.

"We want to be headed in the right direction, not the wrong direction to go out and do that."

Notice he did not say Melvin needed to make a move now, or that he was doing a bad job.

Instead, he praised what Melvin did in the past, and what he has vowed to keep doing for the future. He even acknowledged that there was a very small trade market right now.

This is just one of my many issues with ESPN and some of the coverage they provide.

While I love SportsCenter (and watch it most of the hours of the day), I have the same issue with what they talk about as I do with how some of the 24-hour cable news networks report the “news.”

After a certain amount of coverage, there just aren’t any stories left, and things end up getting so twisted that the real story is lost.

Everyone in Milwaukee knows Braun respects the job Melvin’s done, especially getting one of the biggest trades in the history of the sport done in acquiring C.C. Sabathia last season.

The notion that Braun should have left these comments in the clubhouse is absurd—he didn't say anything wrong.

If anyone can get us what we need to make a run deep into October, it’s Melvin. His track record speaks for itself.

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