Winning by Loophole: Ryan Braun's PED Disaster by the MLB

I don't believe Ryan Braun.

Ok, maybe that he's never had an STD. But he never took a testosterone booster? Not buying it.

That load of horse bologna he put on television today just made me dislike him even more, something baseball can't afford post-juice era.

His words painted the picture that his sample was tampered with, as if his baseball importance is so great that some urine collector got paid off to try and ruin his career. Maybe the collector is a Cubs fan.

It wouldn't be so hard to believe if it had happened before, but it hasn't. Nobody's suspension has ever been overturned. So to say that he was the first guy whose sample might have been messed with is ridiculous.

He is just the first guy with a smart enough lawyer to use the stupidity of the MLB testing system to his advantage. Its flaws have been exposed now and the door is open for every positive test to be cleared.

The fact that they test at times when they are unable to send the sample out is dumb, but that there is no protocol for what to do in that situation is just plain silly. The collector should be one of your "trusted" individuals who can refrigerate at a certain temperature while he waits for a FedEx to open.

So Braun wants us all to believe that his test was tampered with and someone squirted it full of testosterone before it made it to the lab. He should really have paid attention years ago when all those baseball players who lied forever were exposed.

More importantly, his teammates should start paying closer attention. One of them may see something that can turn into a million-dollar book deal about the MVP who was made a "victim" of the testing system.