The Crew continues to give out winners, hitting once again last week on our Super Play. Overall, we're still above 60 percent for the year, even if less comfortably than a couple weeks ago. It's not an accident as the picks have become more selective and considered. We certainly have learned the hard way that knowing when to pass is just as important as knowing when to jump in. That Kenny Rodgers was one smart SOB.
One thought and no stats before the Super Play of the Day...
Ryan Braun is a total a-hole. We honestly care very little whether or not he actually used performance enhancing drugs; The Crew long ago abandoned the notion that Major League Baseball players were anything but synthetically augmented versions of their natural selves. What we do care about, however, is how Braun has completely and totally misrepresented essential facts of his case.
In October, Braun reportedly failed a random drug test administered by Major League Baseball, which claimed he had three times the normal levels of testosterone in his system. Braun naturally appealed, publicly saying what violators always say: He never 'knowingly' took performance enhancing drugs. Of course not.
After a lengthly delay an arbitrator earlier this week ruled in Braun's favor, finding that MLB had breached protocol in the collection of his sample. Per the collective bargaining agreement, samples must be sent to a lab within 24 hours. Braun's was reportedly taken on Saturday, Oct 1, stored in a refrigerator over the weekend and then sent on that Monday, meaning more than 48 hours had passed, a clear violation of the CBA.
Braun, therefore, won his appeal on a technicality and not because the essential science surrounding his sample was found to be faulty. On the contrary, the arbitrator never ruled on that aspect of the case. Still, Braun is now implying otherwise.
"Today is for everybody who has ever been wrongly accused," said Braun, who spoke at press conference Friday. "The simple truth is that I'm innocent. The truth is always relevant and the truth prevailed."
That's horse shit piled onto crap. Braun wasn't wrongly accused nor was he ruled innocent. He was simply found not guilty, like OJ.
Braun failed the test. He never challenged the essential contents of his sample during his arbitration hearing. According to reports, in fact, his representatives focused only on the time lapse between collection and its subsequent arrival at the lab, which experts say would do nothing to degrade the sample.
The only truth that prevailed last week was Braun's own distorted version of it. He basically is the guy who got caught speeding and had it withdrawn when the ticketing officer didn't show up for the court hearing. Braun, though, is speaking publicly like he's Nelson Mandela.
Super Play of the Day
Oregon +3.5
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