Someone has grounds for slander in the exchange of urinary products between MLB management and Ryan Braun over the testing of urine leading to a positive steroid test. Braun was calling the process "fatally flawed" while MLB and the drug-testing folks disagreed.
At contention is whether having the samples kept at a courier's home over the weekend rather than sitting at a FedEx pickup site awaiting transit was enough to invalidate the sample. An arbiter said yes, but MLB and the WADA drug-testing agency disagreed. MLB's initial reaction had them "vehemently disagree[ing]" with the decision, which essentially says "Braun's a doper, but we couldn't prove it here based on that loophole."
The anti-doping people don't want to look like dopes and Braun is trying to avoid looking like yet another 'roider who got off courtesy of his sample's weekend at Bernie's. Whatever happened to the old Earl Warren line about the sports page being about man's accomplishments and the front page being about man's failures?
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