He drank a Surge and Jolt Cola just before his test.

A story on cnn uses slightly different wording from the original report which might be a clue. The story on cnn said the first test showed high levels of testosterone, triggering the second test, which showed a synthetic substance. (The ESPN report said synthetic testosterone) That may imply rather than taking synthetic testosterone (which would make him guilty as hell), maybe he took something else, which as a side-effect led to higher natural testosterone.

Assuming that is the case, if it is a substance known to lead to higher natural testosterone, he's still guilty unless it was a medically necessary prescription. If it is a substance not known to lead to higher testosterone, and we are only now discovering that it does do that, then he might get out of it and this substance could be added to the banned list.

That is all wild speculation in an effort to make sense of Rosenthal's cryptic source given the report, it might just be lazy editing by CNN.

Few more details.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...ticle-1.990020

The test result for testosterone was "insanely high", twice the level of anyone else who has ever failed the test in the entire history of that test. Not just among baseball players, but from anyone that they knew about who ever took that test in the world.

Aside from pointing at the insanely-high result as an indication that the test result in this case could be flawed, Braun's people are also going to argue that there were chain-of-custody issues with the samples.

Damn. I wonder what level he tested at.

couple the "insanely high" result with the alleged chain of custody problems, and one may be tempted to think of conspiracy theories.

I guess he actually was being treated for herpes.

It's hard for me to believe he was doping when you've got a test that was off the charts insane followed immediately by a negative test.

Braun might be the first person to win an appeal on a positive test.

Did you not see my post?

He was being treated for herpes. It caused a spike in testosterone.

Read his post for crying out loud.

That's terrible. Either admit to the world that you were doping or admit that you have herpes. That's a no win situation of I ever heard one.
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I did. I'm telling him exactly what happened.

And you're getting this information from where? LMAO

There have been a number of ridiculous, bogus excuses I've heard for Braun's test (I certainly never heard such excuse making for Manny two years ago), but this might be the best one yet.

The Internet.

Yes, that contains very credible stuff like this: http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/...7520393/p1/?16



A bit of advice that I'm sure you've heard before: don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Especially stuff that is so clearly nonsense.