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Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy
This seems like common sense to me. Given its importance, should a urine sample be kept at some guys house on a desk in a tupperware dish? Again, there were 12...not one, not two...but 12 Fed Ex stations open from which the sample could have been shipped from.
Again, MLB agreed to the strict standard...they even agreed that the burden of proof regarding the chain of evidence was on them.
I agree that Braun got off completely on a technicality...but MLB agreed to the rules, and should be made to play by them. If the tables were reversed, management would not hesitate to hold the players accountable to the letter of the law.
I would not characterize the technicality as meaningless.
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You keep saying that but it doesn't actually make it true. They're serialized sample collection kits with rigorous safeguards against tampering and it was refrigerated. It was taken by someone who is a professional DCO who was being contracted by the MLB to administer the testing. I mean, this is the same guy that is full trusted to administer the actual testing in regards to getting the sample, preparing the sample for shipment etc. Not just some random dude that picked up a jar of piss and left it at home while he went clubbing. When every major agency in the doping control agency is saying this is a bullshit technicality that he got off on I'm pretty much going to side with them over anything coming out of ESPN who long ago sold off their thin veneer of credibility well before they let Craig James run Mike Leach out of Lubbock on their dime. I mean seriously, there is absolutely no evidence that the sample wasn't his sample, no evidence that the sample was tampered with or doctored in any way and no evidence that there was any degradation of the sample by the extra time it took to be shipped. He got off because the rules were worded poorly and didn't allow for what is standard operating procedure the world over in doping control testing.