Monday, I watched Braun accept a suspension without pay for the rest of this season, 65 games and about $3.5 million worth, and lamely say, "As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect. I realize now that I have made some mistakes."Hard to argue the point. More at the link.
Fine time to get religion, isn't it? With his Brewers in last place, 18½ games out? Cutting a deal when he's making a mere $8.5 million this summer, before his salary increases to $10 million next year, $12 million the year after that and then leaps to $19 million in 2016?
What we already suspected, but sadly learned beyond reasonable doubt the minute he signed off on this deal, is that Braun is a phony and a liar. And he is the worst kind of liar: the kind who stares straight into your eyes as he's lying to you.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Ryan Braun, Gone
The drug cops finally busted Ryan Braun yesterday and he's going to be suspended without pay for the rest of the season. Scott Miller from CBS Sports gives him the what-for:
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We can rag on the athletes all we want, but the fact of the matter is that the league is creating the incentives by richly rewarding sluggers while only half-heartedly monitoring doping. Wink, wink, don't get caught, boys.
You want people to take it seriously? Get the biological passport (technology that caught Lance) going for all the pro leagues, and use it well. If it can catch 20 of the past 21 Tour De France winners, I'm guessing it might help the baseball leagues go back to the days of sluggers actually needing to be able to use that glove.
I'm guessing that getting rid of the DH would help, too, though obviously not for the Brewers.
We can rag on the athletes all we want, but the fact of the matter is that the league is creating the incentives by richly rewarding sluggers while only half-heartedly monitoring doping. Wink, wink, don't get caught, boys.
Ding ding ding -- we have a winner.
Exactly, Bubba. I don't recall MLB offering any refunds for the McGwire/Sosa circus in the 90s. They aren't serious at all.
If it can catch 20 of the past 21 Tour De France winners, I'm guessing it might help the baseball leagues go back to the days of sluggers actually needing to be able to use that glove.
I dunno -- I grew up watching Greg Luzinski and Dave Kingman, so it's clear that having facility with the glove hasn't been a big priority for rather a long time now.
:^) Agreed, but if Sosa and McGuire had "merely" posted Kingman's numbers, that's 200 homers and 500 RBIs greater penalty for having a lead glove out in that field.
Have great memories of King Kong, though.
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